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How to Help Self-Driving Cars Make Ethical Decisions
- By: Will Knight
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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A philosopher is perhaps the last person you'd expect to have a hand in designing your next car, but that's exactly what one expert on self-driving vehicles has in mind. Chris Gerdes, a professor at Stanford University, leads a research lab that is experimenting with sophisticated hardware and software for automated driving.
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How to Help Self-Driving Cars Make Ethical Decisions
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 07-29-15
- Language: English
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An Algorithm Helps Robots Fall Safely
- By: Will Knight
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; some even toppled over with what seemed like impeccable comic timing.
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An Algorithm Helps Robots Fall Safely
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 10-15-15
- Language: English
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Playing Games Might Help AI Advance
- By: Will Knight
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
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The “artificial intelligence” found in most computer games isn’t very intelligent at all. Characters in the games tend to be controlled by algorithms that produce patterns of behaviors designed to seem natural and realistic, but the characters are actually rigid, with no capacity to learn or adapt.
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Playing Games Might Help AI Advance
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 08-12-15
- Language: English
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Who Will Own the Robots?
- By: David Rotman
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 29 mins
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The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: “We are interested in robots that create and are creative.” Lipson, an engineering professor at Cornell University (this July he’s moving his lab to Columbia University), is one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence and robotics.
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Who Will Own the Robots?
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 06-16-15
- Language: English
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An Easier Way to Track Your Blood Pressure
- By: Rachel Metz
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
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Having your blood pressure taken by a cuff that inflates and deflates around your upper arm is reliable, but it’s not very fast or portable, and it isn’t able to give you continuous measurements over time. A startup called Blumio is trying a different tactic. It’s building blood-pressure measuring technology that uses radar - typically employed for things like tracking ships or speeding cars by monitoring the phase changes in electromagnetic waves as they reflect off of them.
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An Easier Way to Track Your Blood Pressure
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 04-22-16
- Language: English
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Facebook's New Map of World Population Could Help Get Billions Online
- By: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
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Facebook keeps its map of the social connections of the 1.6 billion people who use the service each month to itself. But it is giving away for free new maps it is building that describe patterns of population density in the world’s poorest countries in unprecedented detail.
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Facebook's New Map of World Population Could Help Get Billions Online
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 02-22-16
- Language: English
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Startup Bets Its Magic Touch on Seeds Can Boost Crop Yields
- By: Mike Orcutt
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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Might the communities of microörganisms living in healthy plants hold the keys to dramatically increasing crop yields? A new venture-backed company is betting yes. Indigo, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup, is developing microbe-based crop treatments identified through the study of the beneficial bacteria and fungi - collectively known as the microbiome - that naturally live in and around plants.
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Startup Bets Its Magic Touch on Seeds Can Boost Crop Yields
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 02-18-16
- Language: English
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This Football Helmet Design Promises to Protect the Brain, Not Just the Skull
- By: Mike Orcutt
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 3 mins
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Helmet designers have so far failed to account for a key cause of brain injury - the kinetic energy that travels through the head after an impact and makes the brain slosh inside the skull. That’s according to Ellen Arruda, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan, who is leading an effort to change that. She and her colleagues have unveiled a prototype of a new helmet technology capable of dissipating a significant portion of that kinetic energy before it reaches the brain.
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This Football Helmet Design Promises to Protect the Brain, Not Just the Skull
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 02-03-16
- Language: English
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How Twitter Bots Turn Tweeters into Activists
- By: Signe Brewster
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 3 mins
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If a team of researchers gets its way, the activist networks of the future could be organized by Twitter bots. A recent study published by Microsoft details a cohort of Twitter bots that targeted and challenged people who tweeted about government corruption in Latin America to take specific action. Some bots asked for potential solutions from the tweeters, while others offered messages of solidarity. The researchers dubbed the system “Botivist.”
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How Twitter Bots Turn Tweeters into Activists
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 12-18-15
- Language: English
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China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
- By: Will Knight
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 7 mins
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China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers. The government’s plan will be crucial to a broader effort to reform China’s economy while also meeting the ambitious production goals laid out in its latest economic blueprint, which aims to double per capita income by 2020 from 2016 levels with at least 6.5 percent annual growth.
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China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 12-07-15
- Language: English
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Skype's Gone Multilingual
- By: George Anders
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 9 mins
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Donning headphones, we tapped into Skype Translator, a creation of Microsoft’s research team. My chatting partners were part-time consultants to Microsoft, who happened to be thousands of miles away from my West Coast U.S. base. When I asked Chen where he grew up, it didn’t faze me to hear him say a few lines in Mandarin. A few seconds later, a friendly synthetic voice told me: “My hometown is in the northeast in China, Liaoning Province, Anshan.”
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Skype's Gone Multilingual
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 04-08-16
- Language: English
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Outta My Way! How Will We Translate Google's Self-Driving Honks?
- By: Michael Reilly
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 3 mins
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Google’s cuddly-looking robotic cars have taken a big step on the way to developing a harder edge: they’ve learned to honk. In the Google Self-Driving Car Project’s latest monthly report (PDF), the company says it has been testing horn algorithms in its prototype cars for some time, playing the horn sound inside the cars as a way to make sure they’re not beeping in a way that would confuse other drivers. As the algorithm has improved, the cars have recently begun “broadcasting our car horn to the world.”
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Outta My Way! How Will We Translate Google's Self-Driving Honks?
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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How Dirty Is Your Air?
- By: Simson Garfinkel
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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Air particulates are invisible, but a new generation of indoor air monitors makes it easy to know the air quality instantaneously and take immediate corrective action. In my family’s case, we learned that turning on the exhaust fan helps - it lowers the PM2.5 from 250 to 100 micrograms per cubic meter, but getting the number below 50 required opening windows in the front and back of the house to get cross ventilation.
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How Dirty Is Your Air?
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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New Collar Promises to Keep Athletes' Brains from "Sloshing" During Impact
- By: Mike Orcutt
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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Could a neck-worn device protect the brains of athletes and soldiers against traumatic injury? That’s the promise of technology that researchers are beginning to test in humans after several years of animal studies.
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New Collar Promises to Keep Athletes' Brains from "Sloshing" During Impact
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 02-03-16
- Language: English
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Stop Emissions!
- By: Ken Caldiera
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 11 mins
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Many years ago, I protested at the gates of a nuclear power plant. For a long time, I believed it would be easy to get energy from biomass, wind, and solar. Small is beautiful. Distributed power, not centralized. I wish I could still believe that.
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Stop Emissions!
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 11-29-15
- Language: English
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How to (Really) Engineer a Human Baby
- By: Antonio Regalado
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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How would you engineer a baby? I mean really, actually do it. Last April, Chinese researchers reported that they had tried genetically editing human embryos for the first time to correct a disease gene. Out of more than 80 embryos, however, only a handful came out correctly. In the rest, the gene didn’t get fixed properly, or they ended up with unintended alterations to their DNA .
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How to (Really) Engineer a Human Baby
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 11-26-15
- Language: English
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The Struggle for Accurate Measurements on Your Wrist
- By: Rachel Metz
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 10 mins
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Until recently, I didn’t know a thing about how my roughly 25-minute bike commute across San Francisco - or any other part of my day, really - affects my body, other than that I inevitably arrive at work sweaty and a bit out of breath when I’m in a big rush. How high is my heart rate? Do my sleep habits affect it? How many calories do I burn?
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The Struggle for Accurate Measurements on Your Wrist
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 06-22-15
- Language: English
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The Quest to Engineer the Perfect Potato
- By: Mike Orcutt
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
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A genetically modified potato that could resist destructive blight, defend itself against parasitic worms, avoid bruising, and cut down on the accumulation of a suspected carcinogen during cooking would be worth many billions of dollars per year to potato producers across the world.
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The Quest to Engineer the Perfect Potato
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 06-05-15
- Language: English
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Meet Facebook’s Stratospheric Internet Drone
- By: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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Facebook has built the first of what it hopes will be a large fleet of solar-powered drones that will bring Internet connectivity to hundreds of millions of people beyond the reach of today's telecommunications infrastructure. Aquila, as the V-shaped carbon fiber craft is known, is powered by two propellers and has a wingspan of about 42 meters, roughly equivalent to a Boeing 737 airliner.
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Meet Facebook’s Stratospheric Internet Drone
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 07-30-15
- Language: English
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Team is Collaborating with Google’s Stratospheric Balloons Project
- By: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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Facebook and Google compete intensely for your time online and for the ad dollars of corporations. But now the two companies are collaborating on efforts to use balloons and drone aircraft to expand Internet access to the four billion people that don’t have it.
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Team is Collaborating with Google’s Stratospheric Balloons Project
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 10-06-15
- Language: English
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