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The Hyper-Intelligent Bandage
Scientists are developing smart, sensor-packed dressings to help heal chronic wounds.
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Technology Brings Online Education in Line with Campus Programs
Whether sitting in front of a screen or in a classroom, online and campus-based institutions want to verify students actually attend classes, take exams.
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Attempt No Landing There? Yeah Right—We're Going to Europa
It is a nightmare glacier, tormented by the giant of our Solar System ever looming on its horizon.
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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance.
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Angelica Lim: Flutist. Global Roboticist. Proud Master of a Robot Dalmatian Named Sparky.
Angelica Lim, a "developer on emotion recognition" on the Pepper robot at Aldebaran Robotics in Paris, specializes in building robots that can express emotions. ...
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Iran Demonstrates New Humanoid Robot Surena Iii
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...
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Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How to Drive
The U.S. National Science Foundation has allocated $300,000 to a Worcester Polytechnic Institute study of bumblebee navigation to help improve smart car safety. ...
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What Are Your Apps Hiding?
Researchers have found the user experience is largely unaffected by much of the data transferred between the top 500 free Google Android cellphone applications. ...
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Millions of Sensitive Records Exposed By Mobile Apps Leaking Back-End Credentials
Researchers have found thousands of mobile applications implement cloud-based, back-end services in a way that lets anyone access sensitive records created by users...
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AI Advances Make It Possible to Search, Shop With Images
The improvement of image-recognition software via deep learning could help usher in an era of image-based Web shopping/browsing.
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.s. Government Is Working on Making Implantable Memory Chips So We Don't Forget Anything Ever Again
The day when chips will be implanted into people's brains so they never forget anything is quickly becoming a reality.
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Nasa Gives MIT a Humanoid Robot to Develop Software For Future Space Missions
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is home to one of two university research groups to receive a 6-foot, 290-pound humanoid robot.
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Machine Vision Algorithm Learns to Recognize Hidden Facial Expressions
A new machine-vision algorithm can detect and identify microexpressions better than humans can.
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ta Work to Safeguard Cyber-Physical Systems Made With Legacy Subsystems
University of Texas at Arlington professor has received a $397,907 U.S. Air Force grant to develop formal methods for identifying cyber-physical system mismatches...
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Artificial Neuronal Network Learns to se Human Language
Researchers have developed a cognitive model which is able to learn to communicate using human language.
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Beyond Search
The latest academic research tools do not just find papers; they analyze them.
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Web Tool Helps People Visualize, Make Sense of Large Complex Datasets
A new Web-based tool being developed at Carnegie Mellon University allows analysts to explore raw data through dynamic visualizations with minimal time delay.
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Disney Software Makes It Easy to Design and Print Custom Walking Robots
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...
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35 Innovators nder 35 2015
The selection process for this package begins with hundreds of nominations from the public, MIT Technology Review editors, and our international partners.
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