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New System ses Low-Power Wi-Fi Signal to Track Moving Humans—even Behind Walls
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects.
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The Seventy-Billion-Mile Telescope
When I was a teen-ager, I spent many nights gazing through a telescope at an amateur observatory in Cranford, New Jersey. Saturn, to the naked eye, is a shining...
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Siri's Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative
In a small, dark, room off a long hallway within a sprawling complex of buildings in Silicon Valley, an array of massive flat-panel displays and video cameras track ...
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The Internet of Things: Open Garden
When the Large Hadron Collider went online in 2009, most scientists saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to conduct experiments involving the building blocks...
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Nasa's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'solar Bubble'
Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object...
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The Quest For Seamless, High-Quality Virtual Reality
New virtual-reality peripherals are garnering attention as they enable users to feel truly present in a VR environment by addressing the challenge of movement.
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Remotely Controlled Roaches Could Search For Survivors
Researchers hope to guide cockroaches through collapsed buildings to search for survivors.
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Robo-Pets May Contribute to Quality of Life For Those With Dementia
Therapeutic robot companions improve anxiety and the quality of life for people with mid- to late-stage dementia, according to a pilot study.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Identify Emotions Based on Brain Activity
Researchers have developed a method to identify which emotion a person is experiencing based on brain activity.
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Researcher Dreams p Machines That Learn Without Humans
Yoshua Bengio recently had a vision—a vision of how to build computers that learn like people do.
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The Race to a $100 Genome
Mark Costa has a higher-than-average risk of stomach cancer, a lower-than-average risk for Alzheimer's, and he metabolizes caffeine very slowly.
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Overprotection May Be Hampering Hunt For Mars Life
There are aliens on Mars—and they came from Earth.
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'password Fatigue' Haunts Internet Masses
Passwords have proliferated so broadly that it is a daily struggle for users to cope with dozens of them, a syndrome known as password fatigue.
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Team Creates Techniques For High-Quality, High-Resolution Stereo Panoramas
New methods promise to correct the problems of steroscopic panoramas, yielding high-quality panoramas at megapixel resolutions.
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New Stanford Software Helps Identify Cost-Effective Ways to Invest in Clean Water
The new Resource Investment Optimization System (RIOS) is an open source program designed to help identify cost-effective investments for clean and reliable water...
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Father's Genetic Quest Pays Off
Hugh Rienhoff says that his nine-year-old daughter, Bea, is "a fire cracker", "a tomboy" and "a very sassy, impudent girl". But in a forthcoming research paper,...
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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Intel Links Many Screens Into a Giant, Wireless Display
The Display as a Service (DaaS) wireless technology enables a single screen image to be shown on a wall of displays all working as parts of a large display.
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