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Robots With Warm Skin Know What They're Touching
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new kind of robotic skin that incorporates active heating.
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Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew in Virtual Reality
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.
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Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday's election.
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Thanks For the Memory: How Cheap Ram Changes Computing
RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers.
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Glasses Make Face Recognition Tech Think You're Milla Jovovich
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...
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How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You
Dystopian corporte surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer "always-on" devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers...
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Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target
The so-called Internet of Things, its proponents argue, offers many benefits: energy efficiency, technology so convenient it can anticipate what you want, even...
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Schiaparelli Impact Site on Mars, in Color
On Nov. 1, 2016, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Europe's Schiaparelli...
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Automated Cars Could Threaten Jobs of Professional Drivers
Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of worker: People who drive for a living.
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The Secret to Small Drone Obstacle Avoidance Is to Just Crash Into Stuff
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab are working to develop autonomous quadcopters that can fly through windows without running into them.
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A Tiny Machine
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have developed a design for a functional nanoscale computing device.
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Pasta Spirals Link Neutron Stars and the Machinery of Your Cells
The conditions are vastly different, but the pasta is the same.
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Digitizing the Cia: John Brennan's Attempt to Lead America's Spies Into the Age of Cyberwar
When America goes to the polls on Nov. 8, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials, it will likely experience the culmination of a new form of...
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Inside Darpa's Plan to Make Old Aircraft Autonomous With Robot Arms
There's a reason Tesla and its competitors use the term "autopilot" for their semi-autonomous cars: Aviation is way ahead of the auto industry when it comes to...
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Wearable Health: Exploring Human-Centered Solutions of On-Body Technologies to Improve Healthcare
George Mason University professor Vivian Motti proposes the concept of noninvasive, wearable technologies to improve healthcare, as well as education.
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Paralyzed People Inhabit Distant Robot Bodies With Thought Alone
The European Union's VERE project aims to dissolve the boundary between the human body and a surrogate.
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China's Policing Robot: Cattle Prod Meets Supercomputer
Chinese researchers have developed an "intelligent security robot" and deployed it in a Shenzhen airport.
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Leading Chipmakers Eye Euv Lithography to Save Moore's Law
Even after you don a bunny suit and get deep inside Fab 8, it's hard to get a sense of scale.
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Nasa Moon Mission Shares Insights Into Giant Impacts
New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of...
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