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Cars May Soon nderstand More of What You Say
Many cars today now come with limited voice control, but more elaborate and robust systems could be coming to cars soon.
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Tiny Wires, Great Potential
Harvard scientists have developed a new type of nanowire that can absorb light at specific wavelengths, as well as also absorb light from other parts of the spectrum...
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The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How Nasa Nearly Missed It
Planetary scientists are coloring in the family portrait of our solar system as close-up photographs and observations stream back from Pluto, a world three billion...
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Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
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Google Proposes Open Source Beacons
Google's Eddystone protocol uses an open specification for Bluetooth low energy beacons to encourage developers, marketers, and others to adopt the technology.
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Rice Tests Wireless Data Delivery Over Active Tv Channels
Rice University researchers have developed which they say is the first system that enables wireless data transmission over UHF channels during active TV broadcasts...
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Hitchhiking Robot Embarking on Coast-to-Coast Tour Across .s.
HitchBOT set out on its first cross-country tour of the U.S. on Friday.
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Ibm's Machine-Learning Crystal Ball Can Foresee Renewable Energy Availability
Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can predict days in advance how much power solar and wind plants will generate for the U.S. power grid...
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The Tools Inspectors Can Use to Catch Iran's Nuclear Hijinks
After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...
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A New 'model For Models' in Software Development Effort Estimation
Researchers put forth an automatically transformed linear model as a suitable baseline model for comparison against software estimation effort models.
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The Square Kilometre Array: Radio Silence in Western Australia For Most Powerful Telescope in History
In outback Western Australia, around 350k northeast of the small town of Geraldton, lies an area of land about the size of the Netherlands, but with only 100 humans...
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NASA's New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto's 'Heart'
In the latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million...
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Firing Squad Synchronization, Computer Science's Most Macabre-Sounding Problem
Getting a firing squad to fire in sync is a puzzle that was studied in computer science's early days, because it was vital to automata theory.
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RoboCup World Championship: UNSW Student Engineers Take Robots to China to Defend Title
University of New South Wales student engineers are in Hefei, China, to defend their Standard Platform League title at the RoboCup World Championships.
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NASA Algorithms Keep Unmanned Aircraft Away From Commercial Aviation
New algorithms could enable large unmanned aircraft to remain "well clear" of commercial airliners in flight and prevent a disaster.
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Data Miners Dig For Answers About Harper Lee, Truman Capote, and 'go Set a Watchman'
Literature researchers used data science to investigate long-standing debates about the work of Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman...
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-M Will Test 3D-Printed, Autonomous 'smartcarts'
University of Michigan researchers are working to understand the challenges of a transportation-on-demand system built around autonomous cars.
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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.
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The Hard Disk of the Future Will Be Ten Thousand Times Faster, Researchers Say
Think your computer is pretty slow?
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