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Apps Help People with Autism Speak
Smartphones and tablets make it easier for people with disabilities to communicate, and for others to communicate with them.
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Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
Take a three year-old to the zoo, and she intuitively knows that the long-necked creature nibbling leaves is the same thing as the giraffe in her picture book.
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w Robot Capable of Helping Patients With Physical Therapy Regimen
The University of Wyoming's Debbie Kretzchmar and her husband James are training a robot called Baxter to function as a coach for patients undergoing physical therapy...
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Composing Musical Portraits Through a Computer
North Carolina State University professor Rodney Waschka takes data from pictures, book covers, audio, and other sources to make a portrait of a person.
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t Professors Collaborate, Improve Robot Soccer Team
University of Texas researchers are working on applying aspects of the human cerebellum, the part of the brain that governs coordination, to a robot soccer team...
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White House Declines to Support Encryption Legislation Sources
The White House is declining to offer public support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple Inc to help law...
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Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab on April 4 announced Data USA, designed to make it easier to sift through vast troves of government information...
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Forget Apple vs. the Fbi: Whatsapp Just Switched on Encryption For a Billion People
For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter...
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Gestures Improve Communication, Even With Robots
Researchers in the U.K. have found it is easier for people to understand robot avatars when they use "iconic" hand gestures together with speech.
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The Twittersphere Does Listen to the Voice of Reason--Sometimes
Tweets from those at the center of a fast-moving story can slow the spread of rumors and correct misinformation that has taken on a life of its own.
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Tau Uses 'deep Learning' to Assist Overburdened Diagnosticians
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a range of tools to facilitate the computer-assisted diagnosis of x-rays and other medical imaging.
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
University of Namur researchers are using network science to map the links between mathematicians of the last 700 years.
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Say What You See, Facebook
When Matt King signed up for Facebook, in 2009, he had been completely blind for nearly twenty years.
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Cern Is Seeking Secrets of the niverse, or Maybe Opening the Portals of Hell
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is gearing up for another run at smashing particles together to unlock the secrets of the universe.
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Robots Infiltrate Insect World to Learn Their Ways
Paris Diderot University researchers have developed a way to generate a robot cockroach's behavior automatically.
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Million-Dollar Babies
Experts in machine learning are in high demand because large technology companies use it in many activities.
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Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs
The Bowman Avenue Dam, in Rye, New York, would seem an unlikely candidate for a new front in the cyber wars.
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China's Companies Poised to Take Leap in Developing a Driverless Car
China could emerge as the premier country for the development and adoption of self-driving vehicles.
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