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3D-Printed Display Lets Blind People Explore Images By Touch
Blind and partially sighted people often use tactile displays to interact with computers.
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Google Deepmind AI Navigates a Doom-Like 3D Maze Just By Looking
Google DeepMind just entered the 90s. Fresh off their success in playing the ancient game of Go, DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence can navigate a 3D maze...
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Glowing 4d-Printed Flowers Could Pave Way For Replacement Organs
This delicate, glowing flower could one day save your life. It’s the latest example of "4D printing"–3D printed objects that change their shape over time—and it...
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Future Delivery Drones Start Learning How to Fly on Their Own
Boston University researchers are developing ways to enable drones to learn how to fly on their own.
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Smart Clothes Adapt So You Are Always the Right Temperature
The U.S. Department of Energy is funding research into clothing that can change its thermal properties to adapt to the environment, as well as to the body of the...
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Race of World's Tiniest Cars Set to Drive Nano-Robot Revolution
Scientists from around the world will meet in Toulouse, France, in November for the world's first car race conducted at the nanoscopic level.
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Philae Lander Fails to Respond to Last-Ditch Efforts to Wake It
Farewell, Philae. The space lander that touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (and in our hearts) in November 2014 has not responded to a last-ditch attempt...
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IBM to Develop Hardware to Wipe Out Errors in Quantum Computing
The race to build a full-blown quantum computer is heating up.
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Man With No Limbs Controls Robotic Hand sing Muscle Whispers
Sam Wilson, a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, and supervisor Ravi Vaidyanathan are designing new ways for the human body to control prostheses.
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Blood Gushes from Virtual Leg Injury to Help Train Combat Medics
If you're very squeamish, look away now.
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Into the ncanny Valley: 80 Robot Faces Ranked By Creepiness
Recent experiments sought to determine the scope of the uncanny valley--the point at which a lifelike robot stops attracting people and instead repels them.
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Smart Glasses Translate Video Into Sound to Help the Blind See
Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be...
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Quantum Technology Set to Hit the Streets Within Two Years
The United Kingdom kicked off an initiative in 2013 that could result in the development of the world's most powerful quantum computer by 2020.
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Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.
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Virtual Human Built from More Than 5,000 Slices of a Real Woman
She died two decades ago, but her body lives on in digital form.
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Clumps of Gold Nanoparticals Can Evolve to Carry Out Computing
Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have found a loosely organized clump of gold nanoparticles can be made to do calculations.
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Forget the Turing Test—there Are Better Ways of Judging AI
Last Saturday I took part in a battle of wits at Bletchley Park, the stately home that housed the U.K.’s codebreakers during the second world war.
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nhackable Kernel Could Keep All Computers Safe from Cyberattack
An autonomous helicopter gunship is flying over a military base in Arizona. Suddenly, officers on the ground lose radio contact: hackers have taken control of an...
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Brain-Controlled Smart Home Lets You Turn the Tv On By Thinking
Feeling cold? Your home already knows, and turns up the heat. Sick of the TV show you are watching? Your home changes the channel.
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