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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Will We Ever Learn to Live with Artificial Humans?
How Japan's AKB48 has created a new level of artificial human—and what it tells us about the infamous Uncanny Valley.
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Astronomers Plead For Space Telescope's Life
NASA officials and leading astronomers say the James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, should still fly despite mounting criticism...
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Google Searching For New Ideas
If anyone can preview the future of computing, it should be Alfred Spector, Google's director of research. Spector's team focuses on the most challenging areas...
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Nasa Announces Two Game-Changing Space Technology Projects
NASA has selected two game-changing space technology projects for development. The selections are part of the agency's efforts to pursue revolutionary technology...
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nbridled Ingenuity at Maker Faire
Around noon this past Sunday, I found myself asking a young girl why, even though the music-producing device she and her family had made was called "Slugophone...
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Blood Vessels from Your Printer
Researchers have been working at growing tissue and organs in the laboratory for a long time. These days, tissue engineering enables us to build up artificial...
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Remote Control, With a Wave of a Hand
Playing a computer game once meant sitting on the couch and pushing buttons on a controller, but those buttons have been disappearing of late, replaced by human...
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Post-9/11 Technology Brings Exoskeletons, Laser Cannons to 21st-Century U.S. Military
The U.S. military has evolved so fast in the post-September 11th era that much of its technology would be nearly unrecognizable to commanders, soldiers, airmen...
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Swedish Researcher Invents Fast Switching and Printable Transistor
Linkoping University's Lars Herlogsson has developed a fully functional, fast switching, and printable transistor made of inexpensive plastic. The transistor is...
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How Many Pages Are on the Internet?
It seems like an answerable question, right? But no one really knows how many Websites or individual Web pages make up this seemingly infinite digital universe...
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Quantum Computing With Light
Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have conducted an experiment that enables a single photon to control the quantum state of another photon, a development...
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Disabled Patients Mind-Meld With Robots
They're not quite psychic yet, but machines are getting better at reading your mind. Researchers have invented a new, noninvasive method for recording patterns...
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Quantum Minds: Why We Think Like Quarks
The fuzziness and weird logic of the way particles behave applies surprisingly well to how humans think.
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Nasa Technology, At Work on Earth
Variations of many NASA inventions, initially developed for space travel and exploration, have worked their way into consumer culture, ranging from common household...
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Apple's Design Wizard Has Not Left the Building
He was the resident wizard at 1 Infinite Loop, the guy sporting minimalist attire, closely cropped hair and a mischievous smile as he pulled one delightful new...
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Matching Images of Brain Activity with Complex Thought
Can you get a text output of your thoughts? Princeton scientists show that it is possible to generate text about the mental content reflected in brain images.
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Household Robots Move from Science Fiction to Reality
Rosie the Robot could finally be coming to your home. Willow Garage, a startup in Menlo Park, has designed a robot called the PR2 that calls to mind the Jetsons'...
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Animated or Real, Both Are Believable
It is still possible to distinguish between a living, breathing character in a movie and an animated one—but it is getting harder.
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Milky Way Galaxy Re-Created
How long does it take to simulate the Milky Way? The answer is about nine months, if you're using a powerful supercomputer.
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