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Google Books Ruling Is a Huge Victory For Online Innovation
It's taken almost a decade, but the courts have finally handed down a ruling on Google's audacious project to scan millions of books to build a book search engine...
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse
Google X is responsible for some of Google's most literally fantastic projects: Google Glass, self-driving cars, gigantic inflatable balloons that beam Internet...
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Superfast Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot 'wins' Every Time
Japanese scientists have developed a robot that can choose a hand shape for the rock-paper-scissors game almost at the same time as a human.
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Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising,...
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Japan: A Haven For Humanoid Robots
Noriko Arai is not the first woman to spotlight the hazard that boys and their toys can present, and she won't be the last.
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Making Robots More Like S
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...
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'feel' Objects in Thin Air: The Future of Touch Technology
Touch technology has come a long way in the last decade.
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Angry Birds – The Rise of the Machines
A research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology won an international artificial intelligence contest at a recent conference with software that replicates...
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Haunted House Business Gets Boost As Techs p Thrill Ante
Ed Terebus was an 18-year-old high school student when he and his big brother Jim, a laid-off auto worker, decided to build their first haunted house 34 years ago...
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Roller Coaster Technology: 'bigger! Faster! Scarier!'
Alton Towers in Staffordshire has just opened the world's first 14-loop roller coaster, called The Smiler, while in Abu Dhabi, Ferrari World claims to have the...
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'running Battle': How Google Hopes to Beat Countries Cracking Down on Internet Freedom
Google hopes a little browser tool will help change the world.
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Google: 'where Will Future Quantum Computer Scientists Come From? Our Best Guess: Minecraft'
Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.
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Future-Proof Encryption
Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.
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Legal Issues with Robots
Who is responsible when property is damaged or someone is injured by an automated system? Existing product liability laws have not yet been tested in the context...
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Smarter Video Searching and Indexing
A new framework that would enable Internet users to search for videos using images rather than text could lead to smarter searching and indexing.
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Mit's 'kinect of the Future' Looks Through Walls With X-Ray-Like Vision
A device dubbed the "Kinect of the future" can see through walls and pinpoint the movements of someone with an accuracy of plus or minus 10 centimeters.
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Bit By Bit, Virtual Reality Heads For the Holodeck
While sitting in a stuffy Hollywood hotel conference room recently, I plotted my next move outside a snow-covered, ancient castle.
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Your Car Is About to Go Open Source
Automakers are working to standardize a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment systems that would make cars act more like smartphones.
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