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Restoring Active Memory Program Poised to Launch
DARPA has selected two universities to initially lead the agency's Restoring Active Memory program, which aims to develop and test wireless, implantable "neuroprosthetics"...
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Scientists Create a New Type of Ultra-High-Res Flexible Display
We are surrounded by imperfect screens.
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Forget Turing, the Lovelace Test Has a Better Shot at Spotting AI
When a chatbot called Eugene Goostman passed Alan Turing's famous measure of machine intelligence in June by posing as a Ukrainian teenager with questionable language...
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Traffic Lights: There's a Better Way
A new means of computing the optimal timings for city stoplights can significantly reduce drivers' average travel times.
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The Next Big Programming Language You've Never Heard Of
The success of D, a programming language some see as the successor to C++, has surprised even its creators.
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A Speech Synthesizer Direct to the Brain
Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation?
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Intel, Qualcomm and Others Compete For 'internet of Things' Standard
If the stakes are big enough, companies will compete even for something that is supposed to be free to all comers.
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Stanford Engineers Envision an Electronic Switch Just Three Atoms Thick
Stanford University researchers have developed a flexible crystal material that can form a paper-like sheet just three atoms thick and behave like a switch.
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Sun Sends More 'tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a new "tsunami wave" from the sun as it sails through interstellar space.
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DARPA Demos Lightweight, 94ghz Silicon System on a Chip
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it has demonstrated an all-silicon, microchip-sized system on a chip that runs at 94 GHz.
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Hp Labs: Breaking Pcs to Build Better Systems
Hewlett-Packard recently opened the doors of its Science Labs facilities in Houston to more than 36 journalists and analysts for a day-long tour.
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Atoms Show The Way
A "quantum compass" will offer precise positioning data in places GPS cannot go.
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Chainsaws, Gunshots, and Coughs: Our Smartphones Are Listening
From chainsaws whirring in rainforests to snoring that sounds like chainsaws, entrepreneurs are finding all sorts of creative ways to detect sounds using smartphones...
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Arm Tries to Spread Its Chips to Forests, Felds, and Factories
Forest fire on the way? Building stress getting too high? Farmland too moist?
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IBM Wants to Make its Watson Supercomputer as Small as a Pizza Box
IBM researchers are developing handheld computers with the power of today's supercomputers.
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Keeping Time By Rubidium at the Naval Observatory
You know when you dial a number, and a man reads you the exact time at the tone? That precise timekeeping starts at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
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Blind Lead the Way in Brave New World of Tactile Technology
People are better and faster at navigating tactile technology when using both hands and several fingers, according to new research.
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Will Workplace Robots Cost More Jobs Than They Create?
The UK unveiled its robotics strategy last Tuesday, revealing a plan drawn up by the Technology Strategy Board that aims to spur the country on towards capturing...
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