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[ad_1] Why it matters to you A quick-growing soft robot could be used in search and rescue missions — or even to crawl through your blood vessels for surgery. Just when you thought you had seen every kind of robot under the sun, researchers at Stanford University and the University ...

[ad_1] “This unique, innovative multidisciplinary approach opens new insights and advances our understanding of the neurobiology of schizophrenia, which may help to improve the treatment and management of the disease,” Dr. Serdar Dursun, a Professor of Psychiatry & Neuroscience with the University of Alberta, said in a statement. MRI scans ...

[ad_1] The U.S. has now lifted entirely a controversial ban on laptops in hand luggage for passengers flying to the country from the Middle East or via certain Middle Eastern airlines, with the Department of Homeland Security professing itself satisfied with “enhanced security measures in place”. It had already lifted the ...

[ad_1] Atari is on a roll lately. The company made a splash at E3 last month with the announcement of its new Ataribox connected console, and now the classic brand is entering the wearables market with perhaps its oddest product yet: Atari Speakerhats, powered by Audiowear technology. The first three baseball ...

[ad_1] Google never said Glass was dead, but it was clear the company’s vision of a mass-market consumer product wasn’t happening. So the company spent two years retooling and refocusing, and now Glass is back — as an enterprise product meant to help workers get tricky jobs done. It’s a ...

[ad_1] More than four years after the launch of Google Now, the company has fully dissolved its AI assistant into the DNA of many of its core product offerings. Nowhere is this impact more evident than in search, where Google has significantly shaken up its philosophy on what a term ...

[ad_1] Why it matters to you Argumentative chatbots take us one step closer to AI that can simulate human intelligence. Artificial intelligence tools like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa don’t really try and change your mind too much, but maybe they should! That is the idea behind new research being ...

[ad_1] Put it in rice.DC security robot says everything is fine, throws itself into pool You know we love the robots-falling-down genre, and today a security robot joined the pantheon. 114 items for the classroom, dorm and a few places in between.Introducing Engadget’s 2017 back-to-school guide! We’re now about midway ...

[ad_1] Samsung Electronics announced today that it will recycle parts from Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, which gained notoriety last year after a battery defect caused several to burst into flame. The company said in a statement on its Korean site (via Google Translate) that it also expects to recover 157 tonnes ...

[ad_1] Last year, we showed you the massive size of the universe (hint, it’s REALLY big). But in a universe that large — and given the Milky Way Galaxy itself is so expansive — why haven’t aliens contacted us? That’s the essence of the Fermi Paradox. The idea is this: ...