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Disney Researchers Show Soft Sides With Layered Fabric 3D Printer
Researchers have developed a three-dimensional printer that layers laser-cut sheets of fabric to form soft, squeezable objects.
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A Research Agenda For Intelligent Systems Will Result in Fundamental New Capabilities For Understanding the Earth System
The U.S. National Science Foundation last month hosted a workshop that, it hopes, will result in new capabilities for understanding the Earth system.
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Researchers Hack Sony Headset to Simulate Autism
Japanese researchers have used an experimental headset to simulate the vision and hearing of people with autism spectrum disorder.
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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
Every Morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework...
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On Time-Lapse Rocket Ride to Trade Center's Top, Glimpse of Doomed Tower
An imposingly realistic vision of the old 1 World Trade Center, the ultimately doomed north tower, will begin appearing next month in a most unlikely place: the...
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...
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Hackers sing Startling New Ways to Steal Your Passwords
Rsearchers have found hackers can speculate PINs by interpreting video of people tapping their smartphone screens even when the display is not visible.
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Google's Search pdated Will Remake the Web in Its Own Image
Some people are calling it Mobilegeddon.
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What It Feels Like to Fly a Drone with Your Brain
At the Global Conference on CyberSpace, Vint Cerf tested technology that lets a person control a drone’s movements with his or her brain.
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Rashid, Tevanian to Receive ACM 2014 Software System Award
Microsoft's Rashid and former Apple executive Tevanian were selected for their roles as lead developers of a pioneering operating system.
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3 Questions on Killer Robots
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...
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Researchers Send Out an Extensive Look Into Email Behavior
Researchers conducted a large-scale study of email behaviors involving more than 2 million participants who sent 16 billion messages over several months.
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Video Games Can Power p From Merely Fun to Meaningful Experiences
Pennsylvania State University researchers have found many video games can have meaningful entertainment experiences for players.
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Fighting the Next Generation of Cyberattacks
Researchers recently received a $3-million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to develop software that can identify a new kind of vulnerability...
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Car Safety System Could Anticipate Driver's Mistakes
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm-based automotive system to predict if the driver will turn, change lanes, or continue going straight. ...
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As Encryption Spreads, U.s. Grapples with Clash Between Privacy, Security
For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue: Should tech companies be obliged to guarantee government...
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'robobarista' Can Figure Out Your New Coffee Machine
A Cornell University research team has developed a deep-learning algorithm that enables a robot to operate a machine it has never seen before.
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An App That Hides Secret Messages in Starcraft-Style Games
Stony Brook University researchers are developing a prototype tool they believe will be able to send encoded messages using real-time strategy computer games.
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