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.s. Military Wants to Create Cyborg Soldiers
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to create a chip to implant in a soldier's brain to connect it directly to computers.
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This Smartphone Technology 3d Maps Your Meal and Counts Its Calories
NutriRay3D is a new laser-mapping technology/smartphone app that lets users point a smartphone at food and get an accurate count of its total calories and nutrition...
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Football Coaches Are Turning to AI For Help Calling Plays
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.
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Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips
Researchers report they can control the phase and electrical properties of a thin-film material by applying a small voltage.
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Intelligent Electronics to Become Durable, Flexible and Functional Through New Technology
The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland developed the roll-to-roll overmolding manufacturing process now being used by the Printed Into Products 2 project. ...
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Machine Learning Helps Discover the Most Luminous Supernova in History
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers developed machine-learning technology that played a key role in the discovery of supernova ASASSN-15lh.
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Nasa's Van Allen Probes Revolutionize View of Radiation Belts
About 600 miles from Earth's surface is the first of two donut-shaped electron swarms, known as the Van Allen Belts, or the radiation belts.
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Shrinking the Haystack
Technologists are helping counter-terrorist forces with software that can identify locations to be searched for hideouts and weapons, or be put under surveillance...
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Malicious Coders Will Lose Anonymity as Identity-Finding Research Matures
Researchers from three universities and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are trying to address the problem of identifying authors of malicious code and software...
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For Now, Self-Driving Cars Still Need Humans
Car enthusiasts, after hearing industry executives discussing the self-driving technology being built into their vehicles, might be forgiven for thinking robotic...
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Race of World's Tiniest Cars Set to Drive Nano-Robot Revolution
Scientists from around the world will meet in Toulouse, France, in November for the world's first car race conducted at the nanoscopic level.
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9 Predictions For the Future of Programming
Nine programming trends expected to pan out over the next five years include the REST protocol's initial dominion over the Internet of Things.
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Leds: Beyond Lighting
Light-emitting diodes have become vital nodes on information networks.
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How Future Cars Will Predict Your Driving Maneuvers Before You Make Them
Buy a new car these days and the chances are that it will be fitted with an array of driver-assistance technologies.
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Scientists Capture Crispr's Gene-Cutting in Action
For all the furious hype around the gene-editing tool Crispr/Cas9, no one has ever really seen it in action. Like really seen it.
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3D Mapping of Entire Buildings With Mobile Devices
ETH Zurich professor Thomas Schops and colleagues have developed software that they say makes it easy to create three-dimensional (3D) models of buildings.
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Microsoft Neural Net Shows Deep Learning Can Get Way Deeper
A Microsoft researcher team won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge in December with a new approach to deep learning.
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Virtual Reality For Motor Rehabilitation of the Shoulder
Carlos III University of Madrid researchers have developed a virtual-reality system for motor rehabilitation of the shoulder.
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New Lab to Give Nation's Researchers Remote Access to Robots
The Georgia Institute of Technology is building the Robotarium, a laboratory that will enable roboticists to conduct experiments remotely.
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