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23 Sep All of NASA’s missions

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Learn more about space missions—past, present, and future.

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14 Sep Self-navigating Personal Robot aims to be Home Tech hub

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Self-navigating Personal Robot aims to be Home Tech hub

A new robot called Temi combines all the functions of AI smart speakers with a self-navigating robot that will carry out commands and even follow you around the house. Matthew Stock reports.

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14 Sep This AR Experience lets you Interrogate Hologram Passengers like a Customs Officer

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This AR Experience lets you Interrogate Hologram Passengers like a Customs Officer The interactive AR documentary Terminal 3 turns viewers into customs officers at an airport terminal, where they interrogate the holograms of people who appear to be Muslim to decide whether they will let them into th

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14 Sep A massive net is being deployed to pick up plastic in the Pacific

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The days of the great Pacific garbage patch may be numbered. A highly anticipated project to scoop up plastic from the massive pool of ocean debris is poised to launch its first phase from Alameda, Calif., on September 8. The creators of the project, called the Ocean Cleanup, say their system can remove 90 percent of the plastic in the patch by 2040.

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07 Sep How Drones could change Future of Fighting Wildfires

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How Drones could change Future of Fighting Wildfires Dangerous conditions in California are forcing some departments to look for alternative ways to combat raging wildfires. The Mendocino Park Fire Department is using drones to go where humans can’t. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joined CBSN to

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07 Sep Artificial Intelligence is Critical for Social Media Listening

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With the recently published The Forrester WaveTM: Social Listening Platforms, Q3 2018, Forrester offered their perspective into the marketplace. Our view of this market, and our experience with customers, differs from the Forrester perspective in fundamental ways.

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07 Sep Festo’s Flying Animal Robots Are Real and Magnificent

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They put even the coolest drones to shame.

Just barely making it under the wire of a year full of bizarre and adorable robots, the fancy animal robot-makers at Festo are back with three new flying robots. An industrial automation company, Festo’s robotic menagerie also includes herring gulls, kangaroos, ants, an elephant’s trunk, and a gripper inspired by the tongue of a chameleon. Festo showed off three new animalistic flying drones at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC last summer, and they can seen beautifully gliding through the air in a video captured by IEEE Spectrum.

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07 Sep Using AI to make cancer evolution more predictable

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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. and one in the U.S. has developed a way to use artificial intelligence to predict how cancer might change and spread in patients. The results are published in Nature Methods.

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31 Aug The strength of gravity has been measured to new precision

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We now have the most precise estimates for the strength of gravity yet. Two experiments measuring the tiny gravitational attraction between objects in a lab have measured Newton’s gravitational constant, or Big G, with an uncertainty of only about 0.00116 per cent. Until now, the smallest margin of uncertainty for any G measurement has been 0.00137 per cent.

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31 Aug Will Aliens Understand Voyager’s Golden Record?

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Pioneer 10 and 11 each carry a 6 x 9-inch (15 x 23 centimeters), gold-anodized aluminum plaque. The plaque is affixed to support struts close to the spacecraft’s bus (main body). Carl Sagan and Frank Drake played key roles in designing the plaque and Linda Salzman Sagan, Sagan’s wife at the time, was the artist who actually drew the images engraved on the plaque.

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