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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Making Quantum Encryption Practical
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...
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40 Years Ago, Ethernet's Fathers Were the Startup Kids
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs, and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup...
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3D Modeling Technology Offers Groundbreaking Solution for Engineers
New software will make it easier for engineers to develop real-world safety assessments of structures and foundations.
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Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all the games of SimCity that have been played, no one in the world can actually simulate living things. Biology...
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The Audacious Plan to End Hunger with 3D Printed Food
Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the "replicator" popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself...
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The Future of Propaganda: Sean Gourley on Big Data and the 'war of Ideas'
In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called "The Mathematics of War."
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How to Hack a Nation's Infrastructure
I'm watching a live video feed of people visiting a cafe in London.
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Principles of Ant Locomotion Could Help Future Robot Teams Work nderground
Researchers say they have discovered the fundamental principles of locomotion that robot teams could use to quickly travel through underground tunnels.
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How to Make a Less Creepy Robot? Simple, Just Add Data
Disney’s research arm has solved a problem that you probably didn’t even know robots have—their inability to accept objects from people in a natural way.
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Is Computing Speed Set to Make a Quantum Leap?
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost," wrote Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his day, "not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really...
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Face-Reading System Watches You Watching Ads
Researchers have developed a system assess how muscles in the face move in response to watching a video.
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Princeton niversity Celebrates the Art of Science
Sometimes the connection between art and science is clear.
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If Your Shrink Is a Bot, How Do You Respond?
Her hair is brown and tied back into a professional-looking ponytail.
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Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care For the Aging
In the opening scene of the movie "Robot & Frank," which takes place in the near future, Frank, an elderly man who lives alone, is arguing with his son about going...
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Nasa Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."
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Web Browsers Are Reinvented
Mobile phones, wearable devices, and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend...
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Chatting in Code on Walkie-Talkies in Pakistan's Restive Tribal Areas
Sharif loves using his mukhabera. "I use it daily, mostly at night time, because signals are clear at that time," he says. "I am in touch with most of my friends...
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New Imaging System 'reads' Ancient Scrolls
A combination of x-rays and computer modeling offers historians a way to read ancient parchments so fragile they cannot be unrolled.
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Badminton-Playing Robot Tests Software Designs of the Future
A badminton-playing robot demonstrates methodology and tools under development for optimizing energy flows/losses throughout a machine.
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