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What Are the Colors of Alien Life?
Just before it became the first man-made vessel to leave the solar system, in 1990, Voyager 1 took a portrait of Earth, some four billion miles away.
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Metamaterial Radar May Improve Car and Drone Vision
Plenty of people play with small drone aircraft in their backyards these days.
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Sabina, New Domestic Service Robot
New software enables a domestic service robot to learn under user guidance via remote control, voice commands, or by being shown the tasks.
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Researchers Build Brain-Machine Interface to Control Prosthetic Hand
Researchers have demonstrated a non-invasive technique to enable a subject to directly control a prosthetic hand using only their thoughts.
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Tech Titans' Latest Project: Defy Death
Seated at the head of a table for 12 with a view of the city's soaring skyline, Peter Thiel was deep in conversation with his guests, eclectic scientists whose...
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Diagnosis By Keyboard
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.
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Roll Up Your Screen and Stow It Away?
A structure based on a synthetic hybrid molecule of peptides and DNA could be used to produce thin, transparent, flexible screens.
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Wearable Technology Can Help With Public Speaking
An intelligent user interface for smart glasses developed by a team from the University of Rochester can help people with public speaking.
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A Robot Prepared For Self-Awareness
Hector is an ambulatory robot developed at Bielefeld University endowed with a rudimentary form of consciousness.
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Study Shows People Act to Protect Privacy When Told How Often Phone Apps Share Personal Information
Smartphone users will limit the information to which their smartphone apps have access, when they learn how frequently their information is shared with these apps...
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Computer Vision and Robotics Used to Survey Cardigan Bay
Aberystwyth University computer scientists assisted marine experts in mapping and recording the sea bed.
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Novel Graph Method Detects Cyberattack Patterns in Complex Computing Networks
Scientists have developed a framework allowing users to categorize cyberattacks as graph patterns.
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Google’s Project Zero Aims to 'improve Security Across the Internet'
Google has assembled 'the best practically-minded security researchers' to 'significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks.'
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Toolkits For the Mind
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...
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Nasa Releases Tool Enabling Citizen Scientists to Examine Asteroid Vesta
NASA has announced the release of Vesta Trek, a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our...
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This Air Force Tech Could've Averted the Germanwings Crash
An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...
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Virtual Reality Is Coming to Sex, Sports, and Facebook
Technologists predict virtual reality technology will evolve to the point that it will be embedded in practically all aspects of human activity.
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Crowdsourced Tool For Depression
A new peer-to-peer networking tool enables people suffering from anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic methods.
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