India's new 'driverless' metro train keeps driver for now
India's capital launched a metro train with driverless technology Monday, though officials said it would operate with a driver for at least a year or two.
Engineering
Dec 25, 2017
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News tagged with human error
Robots can't kill you – claiming they can is dangerous
Robots' involvement in human deaths is nothing new. The recent death of a man who was grabbed by a robot and crushed against a metal plate at a Volkswagen factory in Baunatal, Germany, attracted extensive media attention. ...
Robotics
Jul 6, 2015
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Researchers find technique for 3-D printing on nanoscale that can correct mistakes
University of Dayton physics and electro-optics researchers Md Shah Alam, Qiwen Zhan and Chenglong Zhao have created a less expensive 3-D printing method on a nanoscale, or a thousand times smaller than a human hair, that ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 16, 2020
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Raunchy Vine videos prompt adult rating
The propensity for people to post porn evidently prompted Twitter on Wednesday to stamp an adult rating on an updated version of its Vine video-snippet sharing software.
Internet
Feb 6, 2013
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This man was fired by a computer – real AI could have saved him
Ibrahim Diallo was allegedly fired by a machine. Recent news reports relayed the escalating frustration he felt as his security pass stopped working, his computer system login was disabled, and finally he was frogmarched ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 3, 2018
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Building a printing press for new quantum materials
Checking out a stack of books from the library is as simple as searching the library's catalog and using unique call numbers to pull each book from their shelf locations. Using a similar principle, scientists at the Center ...
Nanophysics
Apr 22, 2019
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Smart microscopy works out where to take the picture
Is it possible to know exactly where to point a microscope in order to capture the precise moment a bacterium or a virus infects a cell? In order to take high resolution microscopic images of living biological material, you ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 7, 2023
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Phone-based measurements found to provide fast, accurate information about the health of forests
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual methods.
Ecology
Mar 6, 2023
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Experts recommend measures to reduce human error in fingerprint analysis
A new report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has documented 149 potential sources of human error in the analysis of crime ...
Other
Feb 22, 2012
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Go master: AI will one day prevail but beauty of Go remains
Computers eventually will defeat human players of Go, but the beauty of the ancient Chinese game of strategy that has fascinated people for thousands of years will remain, the Go world champion said Tuesday.
Computer Sciences
Mar 8, 2016
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