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Tiny body-roaming robots could be the future of wearables
Wearables have gotten smaller and less obtrusive over the years, culminating in today's compact fitness trackers and smartwatches that stay immobile and out of the way. But that doesn't have to be the...
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Hillary Clinton’s three debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins
The third and final presidential debate has ended, and it can now be said: Hillary Clinton crushed Donald Trump in the most effective series of debate performances in modern political history. The...
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Autopilot
All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver. Order Model...
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Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Teslas
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How Do You Regulate the Future?
As attitudes shift and technology advances, regulators ploddingly follow. The process can be messy, incremental, and sometimes painfully slow—but new policies are emerging. Gene editing. A mosquito...
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Nintendo's New Video Game System
MOVIE PARTNERS Press release Partners Press Release Back to top We noticed that your account's country setting is set to Canada, but you're viewing the U.S. version of Nintendo.com. If you’d like to...
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Would you bully a driverless car or show it respect?
Say you're driving down a two-way street and there's a lorry unloading a delivery in the opposite lane. The oncoming traffic needs to pull out into your lane to overtake. What do you do? Many of us...
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Facebook Preps to Fly Drones Above Its Home Base
Facebook is preparing to fly drones above its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The tech giant recently requested a “special temporary authority” from the Federal Communications Commission, the...
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What AI Experts Say Smart Machines Will Do To Human Jobs
For centuries, technological innovation has created jobs and improved standards of living. Artificial intelligence might change that. For starters, AI-driven automation is not going to treat workers...
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The first Cybathlon pushed the limits of bionic technology
Andre van Rüschen slowly climbed a five-step ramp at the end of his race. With a black processor strapped to his back and leg supports on either side of his lower limbs, he stayed focused on the...
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Tiny Fabric-Clinging Robots Are A Fashion Statement
If there’s one thing missing from modern fashion, it’s a flashy accessory that feels like a giant bug is crawling on the wearer at all times. Thanks (?) to the work done by researchers at MIT and...
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Introducing H-ROS: the Hardware Robot Operating System
by Víctor Mayoral Vilches Research & Innovation News October 20, 2016 I’m delighted to announce a new game-changing standard for building robot hardware components: H-ROS (the Hardware Robot...
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Can Smarter Solar Inverters Save the Grid?
When Steve Johnson had solar panels installed on the roof of his Boulder, Colo., home several years ago, he considered it his personal contribution to making the world a little cleaner. And if his...
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Taser Explores Concept of Drone Armed With Stun Gun for Police Use
Updated Oct. 20, 2016 5:05 p.m. ET SAN DIEGO—The day when police zap suspects from the sky with drones carrying stun guns may be nearing. Taser International Inc., known for its stun guns and body...
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New Computer Combines Electronic Circuits with Light Pulses
Modern computers still lack the capability to find the best solution for the classic “traveling salesman” problem. Even finding approximate solutions is challenging. But finding the shortest traveling...
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The Energy Balance of Running
During the two years of its monthly appearance, this column has looked at many objects—cars, turbines, airplanes, windows, mobile phones, and nuclear reactors—made by humans. Today’s focus is on the...
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Video Microscopy Technique Reveals How Battery-Killing Dendrites Grow
While the exact cause of the recent fires experienced with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have not yet been precisely determined, it appears that these incidents are in some way related to the...
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Weed-slaying robot could save farm sector $1.3 billion a year
Posted October 21, 2016 14:22:29 Related Story: Robotics should attract new generation of tech savvy experts to farming Related Story: Robots and the future of agriculture A Queensland university says...
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‘Atomic sandwich’ computing material uses 100 times less energy
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have developed a new “magnetoelectric multiferroic*” material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices with more computing power while...
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Russia: The threat from Russia
How to contain Vladimir Putin’s deadly, dysfunctional empire FOUR years ago Mitt Romney, then a Republican candidate, said that Russia was America’s “number-one geopolitical foe”. Barack Obama, among...
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