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This Robot ses Machine Learning to Take Care of Absent-Minded Humans
The Watch-bot robot can independently learn a user's household activity patterns to provide helpful reminders.
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Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing control algorithms that enable small-scale autonomous cars to race around dirt tracks at high...
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Nsa Can Legally Access Metadata of 25,000 Callers Based on a Single Suspect's Phone
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...
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Holoflex: A Flexible Smartphone With a Holographic Display
The HoloFlex is a flexible smartphone with a holographic lightfield display that can simultaneously project glasses-free three-dimensional images to multiple users...
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Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
Researchers have developed a "myoelectric" haptic system designed to work with a prosthetic hand.
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Graphene Filter Could Make Wireless Data Transmission 10 Times Faster
Swiss researchers have developed a graphene filter for microchips that could lead to wireless transmission rates 10 times as fast as what chips deliver today.
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What's the Year, Make, and Model of Your Vehicular Cloud?
Old Dominion University engineers want to use Internet-connected cars as a cloud computing resource.
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Stanford's Flying, Perching Scamp Robot Can Climb Straight p Walls
A robot developed at Stanford University is the first to combine flying, perching with passive attachment technology, and climbing.
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Sensors Slip Into the Brain, Then Dissolve When the Job Is Done
University of Illinois researchers have developed flexible sensors that can operate accurately inside the human body for at least five days before dissolving.
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Leap Second Heads Into Fierce Debate
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...
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Spider Silk Sensors Could Search For Life on Mars
Ziggy Stardust would love this: Spiders could help find life on Mars.
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Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed Als Patient to Type Six Words Per Minute
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.
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Europe Gears p For Land, Air, and Sea Robotics Competition
The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge is designed to assess how well cooperative robot systems perform as part of a simulated emergency-response operation.
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Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.
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See Through Walls By the Glow of Your Wi-Fi
University College London researchers have developed a system that can sense people moving behind masonry walls 25 centimeters thick using only passive radiation...
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Medical Microbots Take a Fantastic Voyage Into Reality
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...
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Mitsubishi Quiets Car Noise With Machine Learning
Mitsubishi Electric says its new noise suppression technology can improve the quality of hands-free phone communication in cars.
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Li-Fi-Like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer
Researchers are developing a system that takes light from optic fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 Gbps.
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Malware Could Steal Data From Iphones sing Siri
A security vulnerability in the iPhone 5 series of smartphone could be exploited by malicious software and compromise a user's personal information via Siri.
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