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Bioinspired Robotic Finger Advances Prosthetics Technology
Florida Atlantic University researchers have developed a robotic finger.
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A Stanford Professor's Quest to Fix Driverless Cars' Major Flaw
Stanford University professor Chris Gerdes is exploring the issue of programming the computer systems of automated cars with ethical decision-making.
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Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.
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Microsoft Researchers Are Working on Multi-Person Virtual Reality
Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But it may be even more fun when you bring...
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Behind the European Privacy Ruling That's Confounding Silicon Valley
On Tuesday, when Max Schrems won a landmark privacy case in the European Court of Justice, Edward Snowden told him on Twitter that he had "changed the world for...
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars
A new study from the team behind NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity has confirmed that Mars was once, billions of years ago, capable of storing water in lakes...
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A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain
When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...
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Researchers Build Extra Brainy Smart Homes to Monitor Aging Adults
Washington State University's Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems develops smart home technology to help older people live with greater independence...
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Smaller U.s. Businesses Fear Freeze from Eu Privacy Ruling
U.S. businesses from online coupon company RetailMeNot Inc to security software company Symantec Corp said a European change to rules governing transatlantic personal...
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New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
The first color images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue.
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Researchers Say They've Recreated Part of a Rat Brain Digitally
Building on years of research, 82 researchers from institutions around the world reported on Thursday that they have built a reconstruction of a section of rat...
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What's Killing Mars?
The question of whether there is life on Mars is woven into a much larger thatch of mysteries. Among them: What happened to the ancient ocean that once covered...
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.
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U.s. Tech Firms Look To Data Centers on European Soil
Silicon Valley companies say they’ve been preparing for yesterday's European Court of Justice decision invalidating the U.S.-Europe Safe Harbor agreement on data...
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Novel Nanostructures Could Usher in Touchless Displays
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany.
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Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks By Observing
The University of Maryland's Autonomy, Robotics, and Cognition Lab is developing robots that can learn how to do a new job by watching others do it first.
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.
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Scientists Tap Dragonfly Vision to Build a Better Bionic Eye
What can humans learn from dragonflies?
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New Auto Safety Technologies Leave Some Drivers Bewildered
Many Americans buying new cars these days are baffled by a torrent of new safety technology.
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