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A Speedy Wireless Protocol Is Coming to Many Gadgets
Smartphones, tablets and PCs should appear this year that can send and receive data wirelessly more than 10 times faster than a Wi-Fi connection.
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Stanford Physicists Predict Dangerous Solar Flares
Stanford University researchers have automated analysis of the largest-ever set of solar observations to forecast solar flares using data from the Solar Dynamics...
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Software Created to Help Find a Cure For a 'great Neglected Disease'
Researchers have developed software that analyzes images showing the effects of potential drugs on parasites and measures their effectiveness.
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The Voice-Activated Video Game
When he was in grad school, the roboticist Daniel Wilson installed 150 binary sensors in his house.
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Nasa and Esa Celebrate 10 Years Since Titan Landing
Ten years ago, an explorer from Earth parachuted into the haze of an alien moon toward an uncertain fate.
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Catching p with Stern Pinball on Its New Spike System and Wrestlemania Limited Edition
When we were in Las Vegas last week, we unexpectedly ran into some representatives from Stern Pinball, who said the company would be announcing a brand new game...
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Vision System For Household Robots
A new algorithm can aggregate perspectives and recognize four times as many objects as one that uses a single perspective, while reducing misidentifications.
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Batman Lights the Way to Compact Data Storage
Researchers say they have developed technology that could make data storage on hard drives faster and more efficient.
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We Know How You Feel
Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history: a short film that Jim Henson produced for Ma Bell, in 1963.
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Machines Teach Astronomers About Stars
Astronomers are enlisting the help of machines to sort through thousands of stars in our galaxy and learn their sizes, compositions and other basic traits.
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Black Phosphorous—the Birth of a New Wonder Material
In the last few years, two-dimensional crystals have emerged as some of the most exciting new materials to play with.
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Pgi Develops a 'virtual Psychiatrist'
Researchers in India have developed an Internet-based application that diagnoses and treats common psychiatric disorders in adults and children.
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DARPA Takes Aim at Energy Conversion Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program which focuses on transduction, the conversion of energy from one form to another.
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Robotic Camera Mimics Human Operators to Anticipate Basketball Game Action
A new method developed by Disney Research scientists should enable automated cameras to produce video imagery that is smooth and aesthetically pleasing.
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Nissan, Nasa Team Up For Self-Driving Car Tech
Nissan and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration have announced a five-year research and development partnership to produce an autonomous vehicle...
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The 8080 Chip at 40: What's Next For the Mighty Microprocessor?
Descendants of the Intel 8080 microprocessor, which gave rise to the personal computer industry, promise to lead to further computer technology evolution.
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IBM Wins Most Patents—again—but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings
There was little change among the largest recipients of U.S. patents in 2014. But two big Silicon Valley names—Google and Apple—continued climbing the charts.
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Vision System For Household Robots
For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate.
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The Algorithm That Unscrambles Fractured Images
Take a hammer to a mirror and you will fracture the image it produces as well as the glass.
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