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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic.
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Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...
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Bringing Iphone-Style Medical Research to the Android World
Weill Cornell Medical College professor Deborah Estrin says the ResearchStack project seeks to introduce an open source software framework similar to ResearchKit...
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.s. Government Lab Dabbles in New Computer Designs
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking to replace conventional computer systems by developing and obtaining new computer designs.
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Robot Toddler Learns to Stand By "imagining" How to Do It
The ability of robots to carry out tasks and move about their environment is increasingly impressive, but they still face major challenges.
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Star Wars Characters Will Now Teach Your Kids to Code
In an effort to bring coding to an ever-larger group of kids and students, Code.org partnered with Lucasfilm as part of its annual Hour of Code event.
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The Gene Hackers
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T.
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A New Slant on Semiconductor Characterization
Northwestern University researchers say they have developed a mathematical method that makes semiconductor characterization more efficient and simpler.
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Researchers Find Way to Create Wide Variety of New Holograms
North Carolina State University researchers have developed techniques that can be used to create ideal geometric phase holograms for any kind of optical pattern...
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Self-Folding Minirobots Possible With Origami-Inspired Graphene
Researchers at Donghua University in China have created a type of graphene paper that can fold itself into a variety of shapes, including a miniature walking robot...
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To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies
Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.
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pgrade Helps Nasa Study Mineral Veins on Mars
Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA's Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in part...
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South Korean Researchers Develop ser-Friendly, 3D Printing Tech
South Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute researchers say they have developed a handheld three-dimensional scanner.
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Vanderbilt's Medical Capsule Robots' Hardware, Software Goes Open Source
Vanderbilt University researchers have made their capsule robot hardware and software open source.
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Queen's University Professor to Unveil Self-Levitating Displays, Allowing Physical Interactions With Mid-Air Virtual Objects
Queen's University researchers have developed BitDrones, an interactive swarm of flying three-dimensional pixels.
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Can Robots Come to Your Rescue in a Burning Building?
Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering are developing robots that could help rescue people from fires.
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System Recognizes Objects Touched By User, Enabling Context-Aware Smartwatch Apps
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed technology to enable smartwatches to recognize the kinds of objects users .
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Mars' Moon Phobos Is Slowly Falling Apart
The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."
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