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Autonomous Swarmboats: New Missions, Safe Harbors
Researchers used a combination of software, radar, and other sensors to develop a swarm of autonomous rigid hull inflatable boats and other small boats that can...
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How Do We Keep Gps Safe From Sabotage?
Stanford University professor Per Enge is working to combat potential threats to autonomous navigation systems.
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Elevator Makers Think Outside the Box, and Even Sideways
ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 meters (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking...
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Nasa Releases New Eye-Popping View of Carbon Dioxide
A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency's satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to provide...
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This Flying Robot Is the Newest Expert Inspecting Your City's Bridges
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Northeastern University have developed a drone that can create a high-resolution three-dimensional model of...
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Tech Giants Open Virtual Worlds to Bevy of AI Programs
The Minecraft video game was familiar to José Hernández-Orallo long before he started using it for his own research.
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Google's Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in Vr
Let a thousand virtual worlds rain down from the clouds. Or rather, the cloud.
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Earth's Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat: Nasa
As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet's ocean—but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task.
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Paving the Way For Light-Based Circuits
Researchers from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea have developed three key components for building circuits that work with light instead of electrons.
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Tsu Scientists Discovered How to Avoid Congestion of Mobile Network
Researchers at Tomsk State University in Russia have developed a universal mathematical approach to queuing theory that can be used to eliminate lines in shops...
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.s. Proposes Requiring Vehicles to 'talk' to Each Other to Avoid Crashes
The U.S. Transportation Department on Tuesday proposed requiring all new cars and trucks to be able to "talk" to one another using short-range wireless technology...
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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.
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Algorithms Compete to Predict Recipe For Cancer Vaccine
Could predictive algorithms be the key to creating a successful cancer vaccine?
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Researchers Show Viability of 5g Communication With Record-Setting Data Rates
The world's longest bidirectional phased-array link in the 60 GHz band was announced by Keysight Technologies and the University of California, San Diego.
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Sweating Big Human-Body Data Challenge
University of California, Berkeley professor Ali Javey heads a project involving wearable electronics to help address an inability to "monitor health conditions...
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Did the Russians 'hack' the Election? A Look at the Established Facts
President-elect Donald Trump continues to discount or attempt to discredit reports that the intelligence community has linked the hacking of the DNC, the Hillary...
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Designing a Safer Battery For Smartphones (that Won't Catch Fire)
Mike Zimmerman likes to shock his guests by using a hammer to drive a nail through a solid polymer lithium metal battery.
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Google-Funded Flint Water App Helps Residents Find Lead Risk, Resources
Computer science researchers at the University of Michigan have released a mobile application and website to help Flint, MI, manage its ongoing water crisis.
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Printable Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed an ultra-thin, high-resolution printing process that makes use of nanoporous stamps.
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