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Intelligent camera app from Microsoft useful for people with visual impairment

(Tech Xplore)—For the blind and low vision population, technology can help them toward greater independence and quality of life. Microsoft researchers recognized the kinds of questions they might try to address with a ...

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Jul 14, 2017
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Hyperloop One team celebrates Nevada desert track test

(Tech Xplore)—Hyperloop One has accomplished a full systems test and it has reported that the test was successful.

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Jul 13, 2017
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Event-goers check in with audio data from their phones

(Tech Xplore)—If you hate the hassles associated with long lines at events, technology can make your event arrivals easy going. Something that has to do with audio tones will enable easy passage through the gates and to ...

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Jul 07, 2017
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Is artificial intelligence a job killer?

There's no shortage of dire warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence these days.

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Jul 06, 2017
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Researchers explore how a desk surface can serve as a touchscreen

(Tech Xplore)—The digitally augmented desk is a focus area for Carnegie Mellon's Future Interfaces Group and they are on to something quite interesting.

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Jul 05, 2017
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Self-driving cars must learn trust and cooperation

Self-driving vehicles will not only need to "see" the world, they'll need to communicate and work together.

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Jun 29, 2017
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Michelin takes wraps off connected tire concept, 3-D printing, bio-sourced materials in the mix

(Tech Xplore)—Michelin has let the world know of its concept tire and it does raise the idea of tires to a higher level.

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Jun 20, 2017
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Patent talk: A system to guide price-touring shopper back to base

(Tech Xplore)—As if Amazon did not garner enough of the recent headlines with its $13.7 bill move to rope in Whole Foods, there is now a patent headline to digest. With the patent news, the drums are getting louder to signal ...

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Jun 20, 2017
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Convenience mart on wheels viewed in Shanghai

We know about technology and business models having the power to shake things up for the taxi industry; we know the technology and business model kind of disruption that is shaking things up in the hotel trade; what's up ...

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Jun 15, 2017
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From chasing critters to chasing work projects: Our 9 to 5 futures may be tied to AR

(Tech Xplore)—We've seen the many videos, showing gamers and just plain curious friends chilling at home with the AR experience, wearing headsets and moving, kneeling, waving, stepping back and forth as they get immersed ...

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Jun 07, 2017
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Building a better 'bot': Artificial intelligence helps human groups

Artificial intelligence doesn't have to be super-sophisticated to make a difference in people's lives, according to a new Yale University study. Even "dumb AI" can help human groups.

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May 17, 2017
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Opinion: How an open approach to patents could build a sustainable future

To sustain a population of 9.7 billion people by 2050 the world is going to need innovations that make careful use of the available resources, human and environmental. Key industry sectors such as energy, water, agriculture ...

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May 16, 2017
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Job report weighs in on technology disruption: Too much or too little?

Self-driving vans and trucks are only part of the labor puzzle. Robots that can mix drinks, make sandwiches, deliver pizzas, stock inventory and join assembly lines are only adding to the big question: Are we to be replaced ...

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May 15, 2017
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Team develops smartwatch with all the moves

In an effort to make digital smartwatches more convenient for their users, researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of Waterloo have produced a prototype watch face that moves in five different directions.

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May 08, 2017
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The future of flying cars: science fact or science fiction?

Uber has shaken up the taxi industry and is trying to put driverless cars on our roads. Now the company aims to have flying ride-sharing vehicles in our skies by 2020.

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May 08, 2017
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Patent talk: Wireless charging using Wi-Fi routers

(Tech Xplore)—We all like hearing about suggestions on how we could cut the time-outs and cords and forget about the docks to keep our phones running. What about having in hand a method where you can charge an iPhone wirelessly ...

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Apr 28, 2017
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Opinion: We must plan the driverless city to avoid being hostage to the technology revolution

Trials of autonomous cars and buses have begun on the streets of Australian cities. Communications companies are moving to deploy the lasers, cameras and centimetre-perfect GPS that will enable a vehicle to navigate the streets ...

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Apr 28, 2017
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Virtual reality: Do you feel that wall?

(Tech Xplore)—Researchers are thinking on the lines of raising the bar on the virtual reality experience— by adding haptics to virtual reality walls and other heavy objects. Instead of your fingers passing right through ...

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Apr 19, 2017
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Smart bandage covering your wound and healing progress looks to 5G tech

(Tech Xplore)—Some technology watchers this week are talking about "smart" bandages, and the question is, why are they smart, and what can they do?

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Apr 18, 2017
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Driverless cars should learn lessons from crashes

Sean Welsh, University of Canterbury

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Apr 13, 2017
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Cadillac to make Super Cruise hands-free driving tech available in 2018 Cadillac CT6

(Tech Xplore)—Did you really think General Motors would sit back and let Tesla hog the driving system spotlight for long? We didn't think so. Super Cruise is coming out in the 2018 Cadillac CT6 later this year. Andrew Hawkins, ...

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Apr 11, 2017
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Samsung patent application explores watch rim for second display

(Tech Xplore)—The word small in digital gadgetry usually gets a bad reception. Small screen, small fonts, small display, are descriptives that usually draw frowns if not apologies. Samsung is another story.

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Mar 28, 2017
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An ooh-la-la Hyperloop capsule is being built, next year's big peek in Toulouse

(Tech Xplore)—The next chapter in train transport will make it difficult for you even remember there was a last chapter involving units and people by land.

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Mar 23, 2017
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When things go wrong in an automated world, would we still know what to do?

We live in a world that is both increasingly complex and automated. So just as we are having to deal with more complex problems, automation is leading to an atrophy of human skills that may leave us more vulnerable when responding ...

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Mar 20, 2017
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SWiM—an evolution in one-handed texting

The growing popularity of mobile devices with large screens – called "phablets" – and also small screen wearable devices, such as smartwatches, is making interacting with them with one hand increasingly difficult. This ...

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Mar 17, 2017
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