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NASA's Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation
The Curiosity Mars rover recently used autonomous navigation to drive onto ground that could not be confirmed safe before the start of the drive.
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Neutron Stars in the Computer Cloud
Using the Einstein@Home project to analyze archival data from the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia, researchers have discovered 24 pulsars.
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Nissan Plans to Offer Affordable Self-Driving Cars By 2020
Nissan says it is on track to begin selling self-driving cars by the end of this decade.
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Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
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The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body
Bertolt Meyer pulls off his left forearm and gives it to me.
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Vending Machines Get Smart to Accommodate the Cashless
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...
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Inside the Response to the New York Times Attack
Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare's San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes...
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A Camera That Sees Like the Human Eye
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital...
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Think You Can Drive a Bulldozer?
As he closed the door, leaving me alone at the controls of a 41,000-pound bulldozer with list price of nearly $432,000, a Komatsu Ltd. executive shouted, "No worries...
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Plan B For Navigation
Scientists and engineers are exploring alternative navigation systems against the possibility of GPS failing.
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Researcher Controls Colleague's Motions in First Human Brain-to-Brain Interface
University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send...
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How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now
If you want to understand the modern academy, it wouldn't hurt to start at "impact factor."
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Princeton Researchers se Mobile Phones to Measure Happiness
Researchers used mobile phones to capture information in a study exploring the connection between environment and happiness.
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A Glimpse Into the Future of Robotic Technology
The European Union-funded EYESHOTS project has developed a model robot that can acquire awareness of its surroundings and use its memory to reach for objects.
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Ios and Android Weaknesses Allow Stealthy Pilfering of Website Credentials
A weakness in both the iOS and Android mobile operating systems makes it possible for hackers to steal sensitive user data and login credentials.
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How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program...
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Wearable Robots Are No Longer Science Fiction
Exoskeletons will address military, medical, commercial applications.
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Why Video Games May Be Good For You
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.
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How a Look at Your Gmail Reveals the Power of Metadata
Sometimes you have to give up a little privacy in order to find out how much—or how little—privacy you really have.
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