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Replacing Lost Abilities With a Robot
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Willow Garage have developed a special user interface that enables a mute and partially paralyzed stroke victim to control a robot...
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US to Let Everyday Drivers Test Advanced Wireless Auto Safety Technology
The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to launch a program over the next few months to test new wireless auto safety systems in the real world.
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Health Care of the Future
A new system developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory can provide clues about...
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Buy Now or Wait For a Sale? Let the Computer Decide
Microsoft researchers have developed Prodcast, a tool that helps consumers decide whether to buy a new product now or wait for prices to fall.
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Wireless Power Could Cut Cord For Patients With Implanted Heart Pumps
Researchers at the universities of Washington and Pittsburgh have developed a wireless power system for ventricular assist devices, which are implanted in people...
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Stanford Engineers Build a Nanoscale Device For Brain-Inspired Computing
Stanford University researchers have developed a nanoelectronic device that mimics human brain synapses, which they say could lead to portable, energy-efficient...
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Computer Learns Language By Playing Games
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Regina Marzilay has adapted a system she developed to generate scripts for installing software on a Windows computer...
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The Race to Zero: Speech By Andrew Haldane
In a speech at the International Economic Association 16th World Congress in Beijing, Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability and member of...
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Biomolecular Computer Can Autonomously Sense Multiple Signs of Disease
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have developed a biomolecular computer that can autonomously sense several different types of molecules at once, and could...
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Scientists Hope to Get Glimpse of Adolescent Universe from Revolutionary Instrument-on-a-Chip
Scientists know what the universe looked like when it was a baby. They know what it looks like today. What they don't know is how it looked in its youth.
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Panel Proposes Killing Webb Space Telescope
The House Appropriations Committee proposed Wednesday to kill the James Webb Space Telescope, the crown jewel of NASA’s astronomy plans for the next two decades...
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Roving Robot to the Rescue
A roving robot that can locate victims of natural disasters via their mobile phones or bombs that are detonated through mobile phones has been developed by students...
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A Collision of Creativity and Cash at Disney/pixar
When the Walt Disney Company bought Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion in 2006, there was understandable concern that the media conglomerate that drove...
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Scientists Develop Sensitive Skin for Robots
Technical University of Munich (TUM) researchers are developing a sensitive skin for robots that will provide tactile information, adding to their existing perception...
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Supercomputer Simulations to Help Predict Tornadoes
University of Oklahoma researchers are using supercomputers to assemble and analyze massive amounts of data on tornadoes, such as updraft, downdraft, and regions...
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Games and Learning: Seven Questions For Mary Flanagan
A professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth College, Mary Flanagan has spent her career thinking critically about a topic that most of us take for granted: Play...
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Handheld Testing: New Application For Iphone May Support Monitoring and Research on Parkinson's Disease
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed iTrem, an iPhone application designed to enable Parkinson's disease patients to use an iPhone...
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The Robot Doctor Will See You Now
Computer scientists are developing artificial intelligence systems that could take more responsibility in diagnosing diseases, assigning treatments, and facilitating...
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Google Ideas Think Tank Gathering Former Extremists to Battle Radicalization
The Google Ideas think tank has gathered 80 former radicals, including ex-neo-Nazis, Muslim extremists, and U.S. gang members, to brainstorm ways technology can...
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