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Flexible Sensors Turn Skin Into a Touch-Sensitive Interaction Space For Mobile Devices
Researchers working on the iSkin project are studying the potential use of the human body as a touch-sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices.
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Sc15 Chair on Hpc Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin
In an interview, Jackie Kern, general chair of the SC15 conference, shares her agenda for the year and plans for the event.
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
Artificial intelligence researchers want to develop more comprehensive exams to test their systems.
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Kids and Robots Learn to Write Together
Young children can use a new program to teach a humanoid robot how to write letters and improve their writing skills at the same time.
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Nasa Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet.
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Rover Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook for surveying "Marathon Valley," a science destination chosen because spectrometer observations...
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A Robot That Collapses nder Pressure (in a Good Way)
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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New Technology Could Cut Costs of Night Vision, Thermal Imaging
Researchers say they have developed semiconductor technology that could make night vision and thermal imaging affordable for everyday use.
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Black Phosphorus Is New 'wonder Material' For Improving Optical Communication
Researchers have demonstrated high-speed data communication on nanoscale optical circuits using a 20-atom-thick film of black phosphorus.
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Mozilla Tackles Parallel Javascript
Mozilla wants to bring parallelism to JavaScript in an attempt to fully leverage hardware capabilities.
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Google, Stanford Use Machine Learning on 37.8m Data Points For Drug Discovery
Researchers at Stanford University and Google have used machine-learning techniques to find effective drug treatments for a variety of diseases.
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Researchers Report Milestone in Developing Quantum Computer
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Google reported on Wednesdayin the journal Nature that they had made a significant advance that...
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Rosetta Catches Its Own Shadow
The highest resolution image yet taken of Comet 67P by the Rosetta satellite has just been released.
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...
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New App Monitors Net Neutrality in Mobile Networks
Northeastern University researchers have developed an app for detecting traffic differentiation in mobile networks.
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Why Computers Still Struggle to Tell the Time
Despite the extreme precision of most modern computer systems, software engineer George Neville-Neil says it remains difficult for them to accurately tell time. ...
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Cockroach Robots? Not Nightmare Fantasy but Science Lab Reality
Texas A&M University researchers have fused a computer onto the back of a live cockroach in order to control the insect.
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This Woman Flew an F-35 Simulator with Her Mind
Jan Scheuermann, a quadriplegic and pioneering patient for an experimental Pentagon robotics program, continues to break ground in freeing the mind from the body...
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