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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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An Easy Way For Hackers to Remotely Burn Industrial Motors
Hacks that cause physical destruction are so rare they can be counted on one hand.
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...
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Philae Lander Fails to Respond to Last-Ditch Efforts to Wake It
Farewell, Philae. The space lander that touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (and in our hearts) in November 2014 has not responded to a last-ditch attempt...
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2015 Was the Best Year Ever in Space
With 2015 now behind us, what truly stands out?
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The New Way Police Are Surveilling You: Calculating Your Threat 'score'
While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect's...
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Insurers Brace For the Self-Driving Future and Fewer Accidents
As autonomous driving technology advances, perhaps the most notable benefit is the promise of a striking reduction in accidents.
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Robotic Glove Invented By Nus Researchers Helps Patients Restore Hand Movements
National University of Singapore researchers have developed the EsoGlove, a rehabilitation device equipped with sensors to detect muscle signals.
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Drone Swarms Will Change the Face of Modern Warfare
Swarms of inexpensive, expendable U.S. Navy robots will leave the laboratory this summer to be tested in the field.
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.s. Meets Tech Leaders, Forms Task Force to Fight Online Militants
The Obama administration on Friday sent its top national security officials to meet tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley and announced a new task force to counter...
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MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
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Rebooted Kepler Spacecraft Hauls in the Planets
In the second phase of its life as a planet hunter, NASA's Kepler spacecraft is raking in exoplanet discoveries that are surprisingly different from those found...
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Meet the Woman Leading the Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer
The University of New South Wales in Australia continues to make strides in developing the world's first practical quantum computer.
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Bug Eyes: Tiny Glasses Confirm 3D Vision in Insects
Newcastle University researchers have found the praying mantis uses stereopsis, or three-dimensional perception, for hunting.
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Artificial Intelligence: A Force For Good or Evil?
In an interview, Imperial College London professor Murray Shanahan discusses his work exploring the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence.
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What We've Learned About Pluto So Far
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft concluded its tightly choreographed flyby of Pluto, back in July, with a pirouette, pointing its antenna toward Earth.
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What Does the Internet Actually Look Like?
It’s difficult to define "the cloud." Even more difficult, perhaps, is photographing it. But that's precisely what Peter Garritano set out to do with his photoThe...
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In 2016, Terror Suspects and 7-Eleven Thieves May Bring Surveillance to Supreme Court
It has now been 2.5 years since the first Snowden revelations were published. And in 2015, government surveillance marched on in both large (the National Security...
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Nanowalls For Smartphones
Researchers have used three-dimensional print technology to create a transparent electrode in the form of a grid made of gold or silver "nanowalls" on a glass surface...
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