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Can Google Fix Gesture Tech with Tiny, All-Knowing Sensors?
Ivan Poupyrev looks like he's playing the world's smallest violin.
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Military Technology: Laser Weapons Get Real
Silently, the drone aircraft glides above the arid terrain of New Mexico—until it suddenly pivots out of control and plummets to the ground.
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Researchers Develop Intelligent Handheld Robots
University of Bristol researchers have developed, and are studying, intelligent handheld robots.
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Scientist Created Drones that Fly Autonomously and Learn New Routes
A researcher at Mexico's National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics is developing a drone that can fly autonomously without GPS.
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Nasa Begins Testing Mars Lander For Next Mission to Red Planet
Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.
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Household Robots Are Here, but Where Are They Going?
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.
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How to Travel Faster Than Light Without Really Trying
The speed of light, c, is an absolute physical constant.
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Atomic Telescope Brings Atoms to Standstill
One of the abiding mysteries of physics is how to make the transition between quantum and classical objects.
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How Computers Can Teach Themselves to Recognize Cats
In June 2012, a network of 16,000 computers trained itself to recognize a cat by looking at 10 million images from YouTube videos. Today, the technique is used...
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Machine Vision System Could Help the Visually Impaired Shop For Food
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University are working to develop a device that could help the visually impaired shop for food independently.
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Mission Possible: This Device Will Self-Destruct When Heated
Researchers have developed heat-triggered self-destructing electronic devices and a radio-controlled trigger that could remotely activate self-destruction on demand...
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'deep Learning' Will Soon Give S Super-Smart Robots
Yann LeCun is among those bringing a new level of artificial intelligence to popular internet services from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
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Is This the First Computational Imagination?
Imagine an oak tree in a field of wheat, silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky on a dreamy sunny afternoon.
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'instinctive' Robot Recovers From Injury Fast
Computer scientists have endowed a six-legged robot with the ability to rapidly modify its motion to cope with damage, such as the loss of a foot.
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Europa Mission to Probe Magnetic Field and Chemistry
Two powerful science investigations will help unravel the mystery of whether Jupiter's icy moon Europa might have the right conditions for life, when a new NASA...
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The nderwater Internet
In 1962, during a period of technological and political transition in the undersea-cable industry, the Keawaula cable station was built on Oahu’s west shore for...
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Project Exodus
On March 27th, an American astronaut named Scott Kelly blasted off from Earth and, six hours later, clambered onto the International Space Station.
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New Mathematics Could Neutralize Pathogens That Resist Antibiotics
Bacteria that make us sick are bad enough, but many of them also continually evolve in ways that help them develop resistance to common antibiotic drugs, making...
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New Research Suggests Hackers Can Track Subway Riders Through Their Phones
Underground subways offer no place to hide from hackers.
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