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Apple Gears p to Challenge Tesla in Electronic Cars
Apple reportedly has several hundred of its employees working on a project to create a new Apple-branded electric vehicle.
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Raspberry Pi 2 Review: A $35 Computer Can Do a Heck of a Lot
Our computers have become too easy to use.
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...
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Google Retires Spdy in Favor of Http/2
Google plans to phase out its SPDY open networking protocol in early 2016 and instead support HTTP/2 in Chrome.
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Cynthia Breazeal: Social Robotics Pioneer. MIT Lab Leader. Proud Mom
In an interview, Cynthia Breazeal, director of the robotics lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creator of the Jibo family robot, explores her...
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Smartphone App Tracks Students' Class Attendance Automatically
Facial-recognition algorithms power a new smartphone app that will enable college instructors to take classroom attendance more effectively and efficiently.
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In Image-Guided Operating Suites, Surgeons See Real-Time Mri, Ct Scans
Surgeons sometimes fly blind when operating on hard-to-reach anatomical parts or hard-to-see conditions.
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With Google Glass App Developed at cla, Scientists Can Analyze Plants' Health in Seconds
A new Google Glass application enables the wearer to quickly analyze the health of a plant without damaging it.
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Robots Can Build Cars; Now They Learn Not to Crush You
Robots long ago earned a place in factories, where their pneumatic pumps and steel welding arms help manufacture everything from cars to planes.
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How Moore's Law Made Google Possible
Gordon Moore's famous calculation of the gains in power and economy that would drive chip production continues to have profound implications for every enterprise...
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Google Study Shows Users Fail to Understand Security Warnings
Researchers found changes to the text and graphics used in security warnings can help prompt users to take corrective action.
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A Computer Model to nderstand the Genetic Basis of Disease
Splicing-based Analysis of variants (SPANR) is a computer model that can predict the effects mutations in the human genome would have on splicing.
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Taking the Robot Dog For a Walk
It's a video which is bound to go viral. Spot sets off down an office corridor, and then out into the open air.
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Watching the Universe in Real Time
Even though the sky looks about the same every night to those of us here on Earth, cataclysmic things happen in outer space constantly.
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The Invisible Network That Keeps the World Running
It’s been just over 45 years since the Apollo Moon landings, and some would have it that we are failing to build big anymore; that we've since become too fascinated...
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In Japan, Dog Owners Feel Abandoned as Sony Stops Supporting 'aibo'
Yahui and Tatsuo Matsui met because of their dogs, Ai and Doggy.
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Researchers Design New App to Help Elderly Patients Reduce Medication Mistakes
Researchers in Spain have developed Alicia, an application to assist elderly patients with administering their own medications at home.
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Meet Poppy, the Printable Robot
European researchers have developed an open source, 3D-printed, humanoid robot.
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