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Language Learning Robot Could Advance Autonomous Vehicles, Help Emergency Responders in the Future
Researchers have developed algorithms that enable a wheeled robot to learn the meanings of words from sentences that describe example paths taken by the robot,...
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Quantum Microscope Offers Mri For Molecules
A quantum microscope that uses a sensor built from diamonds could allow researchers to study such nanoscale mysteries as how DNA folds in a cell, why drugs work...
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Wikileaks: The CIA Is Using Popular Tvs, Smartphones and Cars to Spy on Their Owners
The latest revelations about U.S. government's powerful hacking tools potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and hip pockets of billions of users worldwide...
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Tracking the Movement of Cyborg Cockroaches
North Carolina State University's cyborg cockroaches can be remotely controlled to carry technology that could scan disaster areas and identify survivors in the...
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How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard.
Wiretaps on Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. And if you're a candidate for president, it's even harder.
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Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes By Reading Your Mind
Baxter is but a child, with bright eyes and a subtle grin.
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To Keep Tor Hack Source Code Secret, Doj Dismisses Child Porn Case
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...
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How Rival Bots Battled Their Way to Poker Supremacy
A complex variant of poker is the latest game to be mastered by artificial intelligence (AI). And it has been conquered not once, but twice, by two rival bots developed...
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Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.
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Merging Our Brains With Machines Won't Stop the Rise of the Robots
The assumption that physically interfacing the human brain with machines will give humanity a competitive edge over increasingly advanced robots is dubious, because...
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Who Can Find the Fish That Makes the Best Sound?
Researchers at TU Wien in Austria have developed a computational method that can determine the shape a metal object must be in order to generate a specific sound...
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First Hint of How Dna Calculators Could Supercharge Computing
By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even ...
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Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...
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Medical Devices Are the Next Security Nightmare
Hacked medical devices make for scary headlines.
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Coming Soon: Oil Spill-Mapping Swarms of Flying Drones
Researchers have devised a way to program a team of off-the-shelf, low-powered drones to map an oil spill in a matter of minutes.
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niversity Professor First in Line to Test Transformative Robot 'cassie'
University of Michigan researchers are programming and testing a bipedal robot with the mobility of a large bird.
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New Gene Sequencing Software Could Aid in Early Detection, Treatment of Cancer
New computational software can detect the presence of an epigenetic add-on associated with cancer and other health conditions.
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Want an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It nderwater
Microsoft engineers have proposed underwater server farms to help cloud providers deal with data center expansion in an environmentally friendly manner.
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Building the Quantum Internet
Taking the first steps toward building a long-range network that can connect super-fast quantum computers, or provide absolutely secure, tamper-free communication...
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