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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Falls of the Robots: Disaster Droids Struggle to Stay pright
It's a scenario straight out of a Hollywood movie.
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Scientists Aspire to Nature's Genius With 'biomimetic' Research
Engineers and researchers looking for the next big thing are turning more than ever to their own back yards for inspiration.
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America's Unwanted Ivy Leaguers Are Flocking to India
India's best and brightest students are being drawn back to their homeland, or not leaving in the first place, as the country's technology boom takes off.
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Quest For Buried Knowledge Continues With New Computer Software Tool
A new computer software tool will enable scholars to read the writings of ancient scrolls without having to unroll or open them.
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Korean robot Makers Walk Off With $2 Million Prize
A team of roboticists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claimed a $2 million prize on Saturday that was offered by a Pentagon research...
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Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?
Pim Koeslag designs and fabricates some of the world's most complicated mechanical timepieces.
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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Developer Tracks Real-Time Locations of Facebook Messenger sers
Marauders Map is a browser extension that allows users to discover the identity of Facebook Messenger users, their location, and previous movements.
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The Emerging Science of Human Computation
A group of computer scientists, crowdsourcing pioneers, and visionaries has created a roadmap for research into human computation.
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Self-Programming Machines Next Phase of Computer Science: Wozniak
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said computers that learn in unsupervised ways and do not need to be told what to do in advance is the next phase of computer science...
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Disaster Droids Face Off in the DARPA Robotics Challenge
Final preparations are being made by 24 robotics teams about to compete for $3.5m (£2.3m) worth of prizes in a Pentagon-backed competition.
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Global Climate Model Helps Untangle Complex Webs of Cause and Effect
The U.S. Department of Energy is pushing climate researchers to integrate observational science and scientific models.
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Meet the New Generation of Robots For Manufacturing
A new generation of robots is on the way—smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable.
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Improving the Experience of the Audience With Digital Instruments
A new augmented reality display could give music fans a better appreciation of what musicians are doing with digital instruments.
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Staring Pain in the Face--Software 'reads' Kids' Expressions to Measure Pain Levels
A new method of measuring the pain experienced by pediatric patients utilizes facial pattern recognition software.
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Want Your Writing to Look Like Einstein's? Computers Mimic Handwriting of the Famous
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.
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The Agency
Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, got...
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Medical Microbots Take a Fantastic Voyage Into Reality
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...
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Getting 'physical' and Emotional in Virtual Reality
If you think about virtual reality, you probably think of it as the place where gamers don an Oculus headset and go shoot up enemies in 3D or travel space.
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