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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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Microsoft Headset to Help Blind People Navigate Cities
Microsoft is collaborating with a British charity to develop a headset that could help the blind and the visually impaired navigate urban locations.
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The Rise of Human-Like Robots, Cars and Drones
Ginger is only a couple of feet tall, but she soon commands attention as she takes to the stage. "I would like to say it's a pleasure to be here," she tells the...
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Met Office to Build Supercomputer
The British government will spend 97 million British pounds on a new supercomputer to improve the Met Office's weather forecasting and climate modeling.
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Met Office to Build £97m Supercomputer
The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour...
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How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?
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.k. Child Coders Triumph in European Contest
Microsoft recently brought together young programmers from across Europe for a gaming competition based on Kodu, the company's visual programming language.
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How the World Came to Be Run By Computer Code
From the scythe to the steam engine, we've always used technology to control the world around us.
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Ebola: Can Big Data Analytics Help Contain Its Spread?
The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has now claimed more than 4,000 lives.
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Nobel Prize: How English Beat German as Language of Science
Permafrost, oxygen, hydrogen; it all looks like science to me.
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Why Astronauts Get the 'space Stupids'
As he was hurtling into orbit, Cosmonaut Gherman Titov had the distinct feeling that his body was cartwheeling through the air.
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Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person?
"This is already so real, I don’t know if I even want to do this anymore," I say out loud.
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How Scammers Trick Your Mind
None of us likes being scammed, and David Modic is no different.
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Shellshock: 'deadly Serious' New Vulnerability Found
A "deadly serious" bug potentially affecting hundreds of millions of computers, servers and devices has been discovered.
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Camouflage: Can We Ever Create True Invisibility?
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we humans have been doing our best to compliment other animals for centuries.
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The Defenders of Anonymity on the Internet
You may not realise it, but every time you open up your laptop or switch on your phone, you are at the heart of one of the greatest battles now taking place in...
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Can Computers Replace Historians?
A researcher suggests computers have the potential to sift through the big data of history to help spot patterns.
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Robotic Brain 'learns' Skills from the Internet
Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube.
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Robotics: How Machines See the World
Can you tell the difference between a human and a soda can?
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Galileo: What Does a More Accurate Sat-Nav System Mean?
With the planned launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana later this month, Europe is pushing ahead with its own satellite-navigation system...
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