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Self-Driving Car Advocates Tangle With Messy Morality
Sure, dealing with lane changes, firetrucks and construction projects is difficult for engineers building self-driving cars. But what about deciding which people...
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Movement Improves Girls' Computational Skills
Clemson University researchers say Virtual Environment Interactions offers an embodied strategy to engage fifth- and sixth-grade girls in computational thinking...
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New Clock May End Time As We Know It
"My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct," says Tom O'Brian.
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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionizing Flu Forecasting
This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta launched a competition to find the best way to forecast the characteristics of the...
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New Smart Key Software Enhances Security For Homes and Businesses
A software-based electronic smart key system developed by U.K. computer scientists and security specialists offers a more flexible security system.
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Stanford System Combines Software With Human Intelligence to Improve Translation
Stanford University researchers say they have developed a system to help people translate text faster and more accurately than is currently possible.
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Verizon, At&t Tracking Their Users with 'supercookies'
Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have dubbed "supercookies"—markers...
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Survey Indicates Four Out of Five Developers Now se Open Source
Four out of five programmers now use, or recently have used, open source development tools, says a new survey.
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Random Image Experiment Reveals The Building Blocks of Human Imagination
Here's a curious experiment.
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Ft Interview with Google Co-Founder and Ceo Larry Page
Wouldn't the world be a happier place if 90 per cent of the people with jobs put their feet up instead and left the robots to do the work?
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New Players in the Nba: Big Data, ser-Controlled Jumbotrons
The NBA ushered in the new season this past week, and fans at the Staples Center for the Los Angeles Clippers' opening game had access to some new toys.
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What Is It Like to Control a Robotic Arm with a Brain Implant?
Jan Scheuermann is not your average experimental subject.
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Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong
It's flu season and Google has some news.
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A Print Magazine For Hackers
On a Saturday afternoon earlier this summer, dozens of hackers, journalists, and activists sat on the floor in a darkened hallway of the Pennsylvania Hotel in Midtown...
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Google Developing a Pill That Would Detect Cancer and Other Diseases
Google is attempting to develop a pill that would send microscopic particles into the bloodstream in an effort to identify cancers, imminent heart attacks, and...
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Brain Decoder Can Eavesdrop on Your Inner Voice
Talking to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime.
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Cassini Sees Sunny Seas on Titan
As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas.
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