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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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One Brain to Teach Them All
How the new field of cloud robotics will impact intelligent machines.
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How Keystroking Style Could Replace Passwords For Authentication
Researchers at Jeppiaar Engineering College in Chennai, India, have developed a biometric keystroke algorithm that learns how the user types.
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A Manifesto For Algorithms in the Environment
Researchers at Stockholm University researcher are developing a Biosphere Code Manifesto.
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Activist Bots Recruit Humans to Their Cause on Twitter
The Botivist program uses Twitter to rally people to social causes, thanks to the efforts of Saiph Savage and colleagues at West Virginia University.
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Europe's Highest Court Strikes Down Safe Harbor Data Sharing Between Eu, US
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...
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Researchers Develop Deep-Learning Method to Predict Daily Activities
Researchers have developed a new method to train computers to recognize and comprehend a wide range of human activities in a single day.
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On What Facebook Knows--An Interview With the Man Behind Facebook's Personality Experiment
A researcher discusses a report issued earlier this year on how individuals' Facebook activities could be used to measure their psychological profiles.
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Picture This: An App For Blind Photographers
A University of California, Santa Cruz researcher has developed a smartphone app that helps visually-impaired users handle their photos.
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Martian Life Could Be a Biotech Bonanza
When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sensed signs of liquid water seeping on the Martian surface, they meant a solution...
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Hidden Gps Devices to Track Suspects Raise Legal Concerns
For months, police trying to solve a Long Island robbery spree had little more to go on than grainy surveillance footage of a man in a hoodie and black ski mask...
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New Tech Automatically 'tunes' Powered Prosthetics While Walking
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can automatically tune powered prosthetic legs.
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Meet Seemore: Maker Faire's Mesmerizing 256-Node Computer Cluster
One of the centerpieces of the recent World Maker Faire in New York City was SeeMore, an animatronic sculpture designed to illustrate the concept of parallel computing...
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Thought Process: Building an Artificial Brain
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is funding a pair of parallel projects to understand the nature of intelligence.
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Court Reaffirms Ftc Authority to Prosecute Cybersecurity Breaches
The ruling underscores corporate responsibility to protect consumer data.
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...
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CLA Scholar Examines Complexities of Data-Sharing in Four Research Projects
University of California, Los Angeles professor Christine Borgman and her team are studying how researchers handle and share information in a data-intensive setting...
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$2m Project to se Video Game to Engage Rural Maine Students in Computer Science, Math
University of Maine researchers will use the popular open-world video game Minecraft to introduce the basics of programming to rural fifth-to-eighth graders in...
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