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Human Trials Next For Darpa's Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm
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Human Trials Next For Darpa's Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm

Pentagon-backed scientists are getting ready to test thought-controlled prosthetic arms on human subjects, by rewiring their brains to fully integrate the artificial...

Virtual Reality System Puts Researchers Inside Protein Structures
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Virtual Reality System Puts Researchers Inside Protein Structures

To understand a protein, it helps to get inside of it, and a University of Arkansas professor James F. Hinton has developed a virtual reality system that does...

CMU Launches Initiative Using Robots to Boost Science, Technology Majors
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CMU Launches Initiative Using Robots to Boost Science, Technology Majors

Carnegie Mellon University has launched Fostering Innovation through Robotics Exploration (FIRE), a new initiative that will leverage students' interest in robots...

Stony Brook University Receives Nsf Grant to Design 'holodeck'
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Stony Brook University Receives Nsf Grant to Design 'holodeck'

Stony Brook University received a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to build what its creator described as the closest thing in the world to Star Trek's...

Enhancing the ­ser Experience With Mixed Reality
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Enhancing the ­ser Experience With Mixed Reality

What we perceive in the world is highly influenced by what we are looking for. Now European researchers have used this theory to create a convincing and engaging...

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Google's Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software

Google is bringing Android software development to the masses. The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people...

Shrewd Search Engines Know What You Want
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Shrewd Search Engines Know What You Want

For better or worse, search engines have become the gateway to the Web. They help users to find information, advertisers to sell products—they even help hackers...

Microsoft and Nasa Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the Worldwide Telescope
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Microsoft and Nasa Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the Worldwide Telescope

Today, Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and...

Crunching Cancer With Numbers
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Crunching Cancer With Numbers

When Danny Hillis spent a day watching a top surgeon perform keyhole cancer surgery, he was left both exhilarated and depressed. The clinical precision with which...

DARPA Plots Death-From-Above, On Demand
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DARPA Plots Death-From-Above, On Demand

Before a bomb gets dropped in Afghanistan, dozens of people weigh in: air controllers bark coordinates over a radio; officers double-check the target’s location...

Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality
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Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality

Middleshcool students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering...

You Can't Hide Your Lyin' Eyes
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You Can't Hide Your Lyin' Eyes

University of Utah researchers are using eye-tracking technology to pioneer a promising alternative to the polygraph for lie detection.

Computer Technology Helps Doctors Target Underserved Patients
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Computer Technology Helps Doctors Target Underserved Patients

Multimedia talking touchscreens, housed in computer kiosks at clinics and hospitals, are helping researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine...

Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
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Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot

The boy, a dark-haired 6-year-old, is playing with a new companion. The two hit it off quickly—unusual for the 6-year-old, who has autism—and the boy is imitating...

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Over 5 Billion Mobile Phone Connections Worldwide

More than a billion mobile phone connections have been added to the global tally in just 18 months, according to Wireless Intelligence.

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Intel's Cure For Home Energy Management: Answering Machines

Intel may have come up with a way to solve one of the most pressing problems with home energy management consoles, and the solution harks back to the early '80s...

Inventor of Cell Phone: We Knew Someday Everybody Would Have One
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Inventor of Cell Phone: We Knew Someday Everybody Would Have One

In 1973, Martin Cooper changed the world, although he didn't know it yet.

Why Face Recognition Isn't Scary
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Why Face Recognition Isn't Scary

Most of the time, Stacey Schlittenhard finds facial recognition technology to be extremely useful. When she uploads her family photos to the Website Picasa, for...

Stanford ­shers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries
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Stanford ­shers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries

The periodical shelves at Stanford University’s Engineering Library are nearly bare. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five years, most engineering...

Intel Researchers Turn Counter Tops Into Touchscreens
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Intel Researchers Turn Counter Tops Into Touchscreens

A research project from Intel can turn any surface into a touchscreen. Instead of propping up a tablet or putting a touchscreen computer in your kitchen, picture...
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