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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Dali: Robot Walker For Elderly People in Public Spaces
To help elderly people navigate busy public places, an European Union research project has developed a robotic cognitive walker.
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A Flaw in the Design
The Internet’s founders saw its promise but didn’t foresee users attacking one another.
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Can Google Fix Gesture Tech with Tiny, All-Knowing Sensors?
Ivan Poupyrev looks like he's playing the world's smallest violin.
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Military Technology: Laser Weapons Get Real
Silently, the drone aircraft glides above the arid terrain of New Mexico—until it suddenly pivots out of control and plummets to the ground.
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Dartmouth Researchers Create First Smartphone App That Predicts Gpa
Dartmouth College researchers have developed a smartphone app that automatically predicts college students' grade point average based on their smartphone data.
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Researchers Develop Intelligent Handheld Robots
University of Bristol researchers have developed, and are studying, intelligent handheld robots.
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Advance in Quantum Error Correction
Researchers have developed a quantum error correction code that requires the measurement of only a few quantum bits at a time.
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'deep Web Search' May Help Scientists
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is collaborating on a platform for searching the Deep Web.
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Scientist Created Drones that Fly Autonomously and Learn New Routes
A researcher at Mexico's National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics is developing a drone that can fly autonomously without GPS.
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Nasa Begins Testing Mars Lander For Next Mission to Red Planet
Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.
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Household Robots Are Here, but Where Are They Going?
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.
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How to Travel Faster Than Light Without Really Trying
The speed of light, c, is an absolute physical constant.
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Atomic Telescope Brings Atoms to Standstill
One of the abiding mysteries of physics is how to make the transition between quantum and classical objects.
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How Computers Can Teach Themselves to Recognize Cats
In June 2012, a network of 16,000 computers trained itself to recognize a cat by looking at 10 million images from YouTube videos. Today, the technique is used...
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Machine Vision System Could Help the Visually Impaired Shop For Food
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University are working to develop a device that could help the visually impaired shop for food independently.
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Mission Possible: This Device Will Self-Destruct When Heated
Researchers have developed heat-triggered self-destructing electronic devices and a radio-controlled trigger that could remotely activate self-destruction on demand...
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Your Brain's nique Response to Words Can Reveal Your Identity
New research suggests security systems could use brainwaves to verify the identity of individuals.
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Is This the First Computational Imagination?
Imagine an oak tree in a field of wheat, silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky on a dreamy sunny afternoon.
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