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Children Beating p Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot.
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Beyond Just 'big' Data
As big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these data sets shift, computer scientists will need new vocabulary.
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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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Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10.
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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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Atlas Drc Robot Is 75 Percent New, Completely nplugged
We've always known that the ATLAS DRC humanoid robot was due for some serious upgrades before the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, because having a robot that's...
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Toshiba Android Will Take You For a Trip Down the ncanny Valley
Researchers have developed Aiko Chihiro, a lifelike communication android.
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To Foil Cyberattacks, Connected Cars Need Overlapping Shields
Smart cars will need many more layers of cyberprotection than automakers believe is necessary.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.
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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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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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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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Scrambled Code Keeps Software Safe
Computer scientists have developed a "mathematical obfuscation" scheme to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering software.
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This Robot Wants to Beat You at Air Hockey
Researchers have developed an air-hockey robot that can change its strategy in response to the playing style of its human opponent.
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