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Researchers Aim to Make Digital Assistants Like Siri Less Annoying
Researchers continue to work on developing digital assistant technology that will help run people's lives more smoothly.
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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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Making Computers Explain Themselves
Researchers have developed a method for training neural networks so they provide not only predictions and classifications, but also rationales for their decisions...
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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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Mexico Taking S Factory Jobs? Blame Robots Instead
Donald Trump blames Mexico and China for stealing millions of jobs from the United States.
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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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Supercomputing the P53 Protein as a Promising Anticancer Therapy
University of California, San Diego professor Rommie Amaro is using a supercomputer to model the tumor suppression protein p53.
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Beyond Silicon: Squeezing More Out of Chips
Ali Farhadi holds a puny $5 computer, called a Raspberry Pi, comfortably in his palm and exults that his team of researchers has managed to squeeze into it a powerful...
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New Horizons Returns Last Bits of 2015 Flyby Data to Earth
Having traveled from the New Horizons spacecraft over 3.4 billion miles, or 5.5 billion kilometers (five hours, eight minutes at light speed), the final item—a...
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China's Plan to Organize Its Society Relies on 'big Data' to Rate Everyone
Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you...
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New tsa Study Describes Method to Detect Dishonesty Online
A new study describes a method for detecting people dishonestly posting online content across multiple accounts.
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Robot Learns to Play With Lego By Watching Human Teachers
Researchers from the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Germany have trained a robot to play with Legos by having it observe two people build a Lego...
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