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This Robot Lab Has No Idea What Its Robots Are Doing
The Georgia Institute of Technology's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines supports the Robotarium, an arena where scientists can run experiments on...
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Can Tech Speed p Emergency Room Care?
The next frontier in digital health may be one of the most unlikely: the emergency room.
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How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore's Law
Microprocessors got smaller, faster, and more power-efficient, but as they reach their physical limitations, chip architecture is driving performance gains.
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States Wire p Roads as Cars Get Smarter
To prepare for the day when self-driving cars will travel on technology-aided roads, U.S. state transit planners aim to outfit those roadways with fiber optics,...
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Hackers Infect Army of Cameras, Dvrs For Massive Internet Attacks
Attackers used an army of hijacked security cameras and video recorders to launch several massive internet attacks last week, prompting fresh concern about the...
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How to Stop Robocalls … or at Least Fight Back
"This is a final notice from the IRS."
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Here's Your Chance to Decode President Lincoln's Secret Messages
On April 12, 1865—three days after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox and two days before President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated—the president sent...
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Too Cute For Their Own Good, Robots Get Self-Defense Instincts
Robot designers are developing robots that appear non-threatening, but can take action when humans attracted to their cuteness interfere with performance of their...
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How New Technology Is Illuminating a Classic Ethical Dilemma
On a pleaant Friday afternoon in April, the grassy quadrangle at the center of the Carnegie Mellon University campus is buzzing with activity.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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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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Bitcoin Technology's Next Big Test: Trillion-Dollar Repo Market
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a firm at the center of Wall Street’s trading infrastructure, is about to give the technology behind bitcoin a big test: seeing...
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Massive Robots Keep Docks Shipshape
At one of the busiest shipping terminals in the U.S., more than two dozen giant red robots wheeled cargo containers along the docks on a recent morning, handing...
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Chip Hacking Might Help Fbi nlock Iphones
Even if the Justice Department loses its legal showdown with Apple Inc. over access to a killer's iPhone, the government might still be able to extract the data...
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Tiny Cameras to See in the Intestines
The digestive tract can be inhospitable terrain to examine.
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Apple Case Highlights Struggles Cios Face in Balancing Privacy, Law Enforcement Requests
As technology advances, there's a delicate balance between individual privacy and law enforcement’s requests for information.
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A Bright Approach to Brain Implants
The brain was once considered a "black box," a device so mysterious that you could only guess what it was doing by observing human behavior.
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How the Science in 'star Wars’ Is Actually Real
For a story that takes place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" a great deal of the technology in the "Star Wars" series actually has parallels today on...
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