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Tackling the Limits of Touch Screens
Touch screens are ubiquitous on tablets and smartphones, but their flat glass surfaces can hinder close reading and accurate typing.
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Samsung-Apple Smartphone Battleground Is Single Atom Thick
The main battleground between Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. in the global smartphone market is moving from courtrooms to the laboratory, amid a race for...
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Do We Need Asimov's Laws?
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots...
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Computer-Aided Design Boosts Biochip Efficiency
Researchers are developing computer-aided design software to improve the physical layout of the discrete-droplet lab-on-a-chip.
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3D Printing Reveals the Power of Shark Skin
Viewed up close, a shark's skin bristles with tiny teeth or "denticles" which aid swimming.
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Quantum Positioning System Steps In When Gps Fails
In 2016 a British submarine will slip its moorings and set sail under the guidance of the quantum world.
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Sentient Robots? Not Possible If You Do the Maths
So long, robot pals—and robot overlords.
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Google's Self-Driving Car Turns Out to Be a Very Smart Ride
A white Lexus hybrid SUV inches to the left, creating a slightly wider buffer as it passes a bicyclist in the bike lane on a busy and unseasonably hot Tuesday afternoon...
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Nasa Plans Mars Sample-Return Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover is in the prime of its life, exploring the rocks, soil and air of Mars. But the agency is already planning its successor—and this time, the...
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It's Judgment Day For Killer Robots at the nited Nations
The United Nations on Tuesday began its first-ever multinational convention on "lethal autonomous weapons systems."
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When Driverless Cars Crash, Who's to Blame?
Self-driving cars have an undeniable allure: Think of all the fun things you could do if you didn't have to keep your eyes on the road!
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Hackers Devise Wireless Methods For Stealing Atm Users' Pins
Pilfering the personal identification numbers of financial accounts, a potential jackpot for hackers, is tougher to pull off thanks to data encryption and other...
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Making Wireless 10 Times Faster
University at Buffalo researchers are developing technology based on cognitive radio, which they say could make wireless communications up to 10 times faster.
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Carnegie Mellon Group Shows Ipad Skeuomorphism
TouchTools is a gesture design approach that enables users to manipulate tools on the screen just as they would in real life.
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It's Judgment Day For Killer Robots at the nited Nations
Has the age of the Robocop and Terminator arrived?
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West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable
A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an...
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Research in India Suggests Google Search Results Can Influence an Election
Google long ago went from being a mere directory of the Internet to a shaper of online reality, helping determine what we see and how.
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.s. Fda Approves 'star Wars' Robotic Arm For Amputees
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the "Star Wars" character Luke Skywalker and can perform multiple...
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