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Dot-Drawing With Drones
Researchers at McGill University are developing tiny drones to create dot drawings, an artistic technique known as stippling.
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AI Reads Your Tweets and Spots When You're Being Sarcastic
Researchers at the University of Lisbon have developed a machine learning system that can identify sarcasm on Twitter by examining a user's past tweets.
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Toyota Teaches Cars to Drive By Studying Human Drivers
The development of autonomous-driving capabilities and home-care robots are areas the recently created Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is exploring.
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Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science
Knowledge from millions of biological studies encoded into one network—that is Daniel Himmelstein's alluring description of Hetionet, a free online resource that...
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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision
Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics
Vance Bergeron was once an amateur cyclist who rode 7,000 kilometres per year—much of it on steep climbs in the Alps.
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Crystal Mimics Brain Cell to Sift Through Giant Piles of Data
There's nothing quite like the human brain. Today, researchers at IBM unveiled their latest attempt to mimic it: an artificial neuron that switches between crystal...
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What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data
In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres' inner...
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Retroscope Opens Doors to the Past in Smartphone Investigations
Researchers at Purdue University are developing a technique that could help law enforcement recover evidence from smartphones when investigating crimes.
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Here's How Government Thinks Nanotech Will Transform Cyber
A group of U.S. federal organizations think brain-inspired nanotechnology could help the government protect its networks.
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What's Wasting Power at Home? Ask Your App!
New technology could make it much easier for consumers to accurately determine how much power is being consumed by each device in their home.
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Reach in and Touch Objects in Videos With 'interactive Dynamic Video'
Interactive Dynamic Video is a new imaging method that can simulate the tactile sensation of objects in videos using cameras and algorithms.
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Google's Driverless-Car Czar on Taking the Human Out of the Equation
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a...
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage for General-Purpose Quantum Computers
Quantum computers promise speedy solutions to some difficult problems, but building large-scale, general-purpose quantum devices is a problem fraught with technical...
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The Brain Behind Google's Artificial Intelligence
In an interview, Jeff Dean, senior fellow of Google's Systems and Infrastructure Group, discusses the company's artificial intelligence agenda.
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Caltech Scientists Improve Computer Graphics With Quantum Mechanics
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have used the mathematics that govern the universe at the quantum level to simulate large-scale motion.
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Blind Athlete Runs Desert Marathon Unassisted Using Smartphone App
IBM researchers have developed an application designed to help visually-impaired runners navigate on their own.
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