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Underwater Drones Giving More Eyes to Police Harbor Unit as Searches Grow
With President Obama in town last week, things were busy for the New York Police Department's Harbor Unit. Federal security agents were disseminating lists of...
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Microsoft's Kinect: A Robot's Low-Cost, Secret Weapon
As robots seek to mimic humans' ability to see and hear, they have a secret weapon in Microsoft's Kinect game motion-sensing controller.
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Squishy, Soft Robots Crawl Their Way to the Cutting Edge
A new breed of robots based on spineless creatures such as starfish and caterpillars could change the way humans interact with machines.
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Supercomputers Take a Cue From Microwave Ovens
To develop more efficient supercomputers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers are studying consumer electronics such as microwave ovens, cameras,...
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Open Source System for Robot Hardware to Speed p Robot Development
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology have launched an open source system for robot hardware designed to serve as a library that robot developers...
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A High-Stakes Search Continues for Silicon's Successor
In a cluttered chip-making laboratory on Stanford's campus, Max Shulaker is producing the world's smallest computer circuits by hand.
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New Efforts to Extend Moore's Law
Continually needing to add computing power to its microprocessors, Santa Clara behemoth Intel this year announced it was venturing beyond its traditional method...
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Enhance Your Senses: High-Tech Ways to Play
Sometimes the best inventions are just for fun. At the 2011 Siggraph Asia event, a leading conference on computer graphics and techniques, researchers will be...
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Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D
Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images...
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Dna Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data
BGI, based in China, is the world’s largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes a day.
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A High-Tech Pioneer Reflects on the Digital Revolution
In an interview, Frederico Faggin, who led the design and development of the first microprocessor in 1970, says he sees a future in which quantum and cognitive...
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Comedy of Errors Led to False 'water-Pump Hack' Report
It was the broken water pump heard 'round the world. Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely...
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Soft Robots Inspired By Nature Could Become Our Flexible Friends
Robbie the Robot in the 1950s movie Forbidden Planet may have been endearing in a clunky, metallic way, but negotiating tricky terrain was never his strong point...
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Drone Pilots: The Future of Aerial Warfare
To understand how important remotely piloted aircraft are to the U.S. military, consider this: The U.S. Air Force says this year it will train more drone pilots...
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It's a Drone's World. We Just Live in It
Drones have had a profound effect on the way America fights its wars, allowing it to fight in new theaters while minimizing the risk to troops.
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Important Step Toward Computing with Light
There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips—devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their...
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Millions of Printers Open to Devastating Hack Attack, Researchers Say
Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked...
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Turn On the Server. It
To satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling...
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Kilobots Are Leaving the Nest
Harvard University computer scientists and engineers have developed technology designed to test collective algorithms on hundreds or even thousands of tiny robots...
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