Robotics
A team of researchers at the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have recently proposed a case-supported, principle-based behavior paradigm toward ensuring ...
Internet
There's been a lot of hype about blockchain over the past year. Although best known as the technology that underpins Bitcoin, blockchain is starting to disrupt other industries, from supply chains to energy trading.
Oct 31, 2018
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Robotics
Even octopuses understand the importance of elbows. When these squishy, loose-limbed cephalopods need to make a precise movement—such as guiding food into their mouth—the muscles in their tentacles contract to create ...
May 2, 2018
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Engineering
A team of researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University has developed a pair of "4-D goggles" that allows wearers to be physically "touched" by a movie when they see a looming object on the screen, such as an ...
Feb 8, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Making news this month is a study by researchers the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Kyoto University in Japan, having built a neural network that not only reads but re-creates what ...
Security
Modern website browsers provide an incredibly broad range of features, with more and more capabilities being added every day.
Oct 24, 2017
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Computer Sciences
When we think about digital information, we often think about size. A daily email newsletter, for example, may be 75 to 100 kilobytes in size. But data also has dimensions, based on the numbers of variables in a piece of ...
Oct 19, 2017
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Engineering
A lightweight, comfortable jacket that can generate the power to light up a jogger at night may sound futuristic, but materials scientist Trisha Andrew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could make one today. In a ...
May 23, 2017
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Engineering
The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. Now scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart's amazing biomechanical properties.
Feb 22, 2017
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Are you lying? Do you have a racial bias? Is your moral compass intact?To find out what you think or feel, we usually have to take your word for it. But questionnaires and other explicit measures to reveal what's on your ...
Feb 9, 2017
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