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Corkscrew-Shaped Robot Swims Through Blood Vessels to Clear Blockages
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a corkscrew-shaped microrobot that can swim through blood vessels… From ACM TechNewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Spherical Display Lets You See 3-D Animations from Any Angle
Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo and the University of British Columbia have developed Spheree, a spherical display that enables users to see and interact...
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Skype's Real-Time Translator Learns How to Speak From Social Media
Microsoft says its upcoming Skype Translator app will translate multilingual conversations in real time.
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Can Winograd Schemas Replace Turing Test For Defining Human-Level Ai?
A new proposed method of testing artificial intelligence are so-called Winograd schemas, which present an AI system with an ambiguously worded sentence and asks...
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Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
In September 1976, in the midst of the Cold War, Victor Ivanovich Belenko, a disgruntled Soviet pilot, veered off course from a training flight over Siberia in...
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Beyond Tianhe-2
The TOP500 semi-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, announced yesterday, revealed that China's Tianhe-2 has kept its first-place position...
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Memory Cells Built on Paper
A team at the National Taiwan University in Taipei has printed small resistive random access memory cells on paper.
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Digital Actors Go Beyond the ncanny Valley
Graphics specialists are close to developing interactive, photorealistically lifelike digital humans that will transform acting, entertainment, and computer games...
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Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment.
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Software Teaches Hybrids When (and When Not) to Go Electric
Chalmers University of Technology Ph.D. Viktor Larsson's doctoral dissertation describes software that would help hybrid vehicles optimize battery usage.
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Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones
A European public-private consortium aims to make exaflop supercomputers based on the central-processing units used in smartphones and tablet computers.
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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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Cars That Look and Listen to Find Themselves a Parking Spot
Researchers affiliated with South Korea's Hanyang University are developing a system to fully automate the parking process, including helping find a parking space...
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'wearable Eyes' Make You Appear Friendly, Social Even When You're Not
AgencyGlass is a wearable device that produces "virtual eyes" to give the wearer a semblance of friendliness and approachability.
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Mitsubishi Planning Predictive User Interface For Cars
Mitsubishi Electric recently demonstrated prototype technology that predicts in-car operations.
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New "look And Link" Wireless Technology Enables Device-to-Device Links By Pointing
Researchers recently demonstrated their new Look and Link wireless technology, which could improve device-to-device communications.
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Nasa Jsc Unveils 'valkyrie' Drc Robot
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...
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The Highs and Hazards of Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the leading online alternative currency, has attracted high-minded entrepreneurs and crooks alike.
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The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated
As computer chips grow denser, it becomes increasingly difficult to measure the progression of Moore's Law. Exacerbating this situation is the mutability of the...
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Scrambled Code Keeps Software Safe
Computer scientists have developed a "mathematical obfuscation" scheme to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering software.
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