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Disney Open Source
Open Source Software is important to The Walt Disney Company. Disney has established an Open Source Program to encourage our developers to utilize Open Source, contribute to Open Source projects, and...
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Blinking Iris Goggles by LoboCNC
Summary Print Settings Post-Printing Tip Designer Report Thing Remix This If you print this Thing and display it in public proudly give attribution by printing and displaying this tag. Print Thing Tag...
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Why DJI is succeeding in making and selling drones and 3DR didn't
It was clear that DJI was winning the drone war by the end of 2015. Today's best sellers are mostly DJI products. Other makers (Parrot, 3D Robotics, Autel, Yuneec et al) haven't been able to capture...
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New Taxi Hitchhiker: The Package
A new research project aims to sneak a hitchhiker along on your taxi ride: the package. In 2013, consumers received deliveries for over one billion products they ordered online, according to a report...
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Microsoft computing method makes key aspect of genomic sequencing seven times...
Microsoft has come up with a way to significantly reduce the time it takes to do the major computational aspects of sequencing a genome. Microsoft’s method of running the Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA)...
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Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in...
Microsoft has made a major breakthrough in speech recognition, creating a technology that understands a conversation as well as a person does. In a paper published Monday, a team of researchers and...
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Grabbing a fork from a sink filled with running water would be an important...
Better vision and manipulation could help robots move into factories and even homes. by Will Knight October 18, 2016 The robots are coming—to do the dishes, if we’re lucky. Speaking at EmTech MIT 2016...
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Faster Fashion: How Making Clothes Has Become Like Making Software
Since the factory days of the Industrial Revolution, the apparel business has built up a planet-spanning supply chain with an enormous global footprint. Today, many of its manufacturing procedures,...
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Will the Real Schrodinger’s Cat Please Stand Up
The story of Schrodinger’s cat is well known, and one of quantum theory’s most popular phrases on the world stage. You can find his cat on t-shirts, bumper stickers, internet memes and the like....
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Microsoft says speech recognition technology reaches "human parity”
Artificial intelligence just keeps getting smarter and smarter. Now Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed speech recognition technology that can grasp a human conversation as well as people do....
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Aussie Uses Arduino Chips To Roboticize a Ford Focus
The hard part of getting cars to drive themselves is the last, niggling one percent of reliability. That’s the bit that has so far stymied even the tech giants and auto titans who are developing...
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Women in Robotics
Professional network for women in robotics – and women who aspire to work in robotics. It started as the Silicon Valley Robotics working group for Women in Robotics where over the years we’ve tried all...
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Engineering a Better Body and the End of Disease
There are two kinds of people in Washington, DC, says entrepreneur Dean Kamen. There are the policy experts, whom he calls cynics. And there are the scientists, whom he deems optimists. Kamen, speaking...
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Watch DARPA's autopilot system fly a turboprop plane
It'll likely take a long time before DARPA's autopilot system flies military planes on its own, but this latest demonstration proves that it works. Aurora Flight Sciences, the aviation company that's...
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The AI advance that helps computers recognize cats will also allow our cars...
A revolutionary AI technique is about to transform the self-driving car. October 18, 2016 When the Google self-driving-car project began about a decade ago, the company made a strategic decision to...
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Anki Cozmo rolls out to stores to charm kids, robot lovers
Anki is probably better known for its OVERDRIVE set of AI-powered racing car robots. But a few months ago, the company revealed a different, less competitive, and more educational product: Cozmo. Now...
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IBM Watson's latest gig: Improving cancer treatment with genomic sequencing
Cancer treatments are about to get an injection of cognitive computing. On Tuesday, IBM Watson Health and Quest Diagnostics launched IBM Watson for Genomics—a service that combines Watson's AI...
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Cell softness predicts corneal transplant success
Stem cell transplantation is a promising strategy for restoring eyesight resulting from corneal damage, but tissue grafts must contain a high percentage of stem cells for clinical success. A study...
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Gene Editing and Seed Stealing
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Four hundred years ago, John Rolfe used tobacco seeds pilfered from the West Indies to develop Virginia’s first profitable export, undermining the tobacco trade of Spain’s Caribbean...
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Amazon has patented a voice-controlled drone that fits in your pocket
Amazon won a patent today for a voice-controlled drone small enough to fit in your pocket. Imagine an Echo flying off your kitchen counter to act as an Alexa-powered aerial assistant. The technology,...
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