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Nadine, the Social Robot That Remembers You
Meet Nadine, a social robot designed by Professor Nadia Thalmann of Nanyang Technological University. This robot, made to look somewhat…
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BigDog Wishes He Wasn’t So Loud
It was only about a week ago that BigDog wished everyone a Merry Christmas. But what does that four-legged Boston…
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YouTube Compression Can Be Creepy
Feast your eyes on this digital abomination: the result of a single video uploaded, downloaded, then re-uploaded to YouTube 1,000…
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Uncanny: This 19th Century Automaton Will Give You Nightmares
The uncanny valley can be a terrifying place – a place of strange dolls, unsettling computer animation, and people who…
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Scientists Link Monkey Brains to Create Monkey “Brainet”
It’s amazing what the power of science and juice can accomplish! Brain-machine interfaces are an incredible technology, and we’ve already…
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2015: The Year of a Robot Wedding…and a Robot Duel?
On June 27, 2015, a historic event took place: Yukirin and Frois got married. Not a huge deal, on the…
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Edison’s Talking Dolls Speak Once More
In 1890, Thomas Edison unleashed his infamous talking dolls – the first of their kind, each containing a phonograph with…
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Thomas Edison’s Memoir Involving “Spirit Phone” Republished
Electronic voice phenomena and instrumental transcommunication are hot topics in the paranormal sphere, and for good reason. It’s one of…
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Are We Heading for a Digital Dark Age?
Apparently, Google’s Vint Cerf is a little worried about all the information we store on our computers. From the BBC…
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Engineers Create Teleporter that Doesn’t Actually Teleport Anything
…but it’s still pretty cool. The device, designed by German engineers, is actually a modified 3D printer, dubbed “Scotty” after…
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