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Hot high-tech research projects

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15 hot Kickstarter tech campaigns
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15 MIT Research Projects That Will Make You Say 'Whoa'
Researchers at MIT are no strangers to the press, grabbing our attention regularly with new projects. Some in this list are potentially world-changing or life-saving breakthroughs, while others are just fun to look at. Either way, they all appear to be small previews of what life may be like within the next decade or two. Read More

DARPA: Big data needs Big search, Big analytics
How you might one day most effectively negotiate the enormous amounts of data and video around the Internet was on display recently as DARPA's Information Innovation Office hosted Demo Day 2014 to highlight the agency's ongoing contributions to what it called "preserving and expanding IT superiority." Among the over 100 products on display were a couple looking to address future issues such as vastly... Read More

13 of today's coolest network research projects
Here's a whirlwind look at some of the wildest and potentially most useful technology research projects from university and vendor labs related to computer networking. Read More

DARPA wants to scrub scourge of counterfeit computer gear
Few things can mess up a highly technical system and threaten lives like a counterfeit electronic component, yet the use of such bogus gear is said to be widespread. A new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program will target these phony products and develop a tool to "verify, without disrupting or harming the system, the trustworthiness of a protected electronic component." Read More

13 cool high-tech prize competitions
The US government in 2011 or so realized that it could tap the techie conscience of the country by financially and legislatively backing good old-fashioned competition via the America Competes Act. That's the driving notion behind numerous public competitions, or challenges as they are often labeled, that have taken place since. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, X Prize and others already knew the power of the public collection having pioneered the big tech competitions with myriad competitions about everything from space gloves and shredders to spacecraft. Here's a look at some of the coolest competitions going on now and in the future. Read More

9 efforts to build more relatable robots
If we're going to live in a world of artificial intelligences, we've got to be able to feel affection for them. Read More

13 hot new open source projects
Open source projects are a great barometer of the tech industry. While companies take time to establish themselves and venture capitalists take months to decide where to place their bets, open source software takes just one programmer and a public repository. If the programmer has a fast Internet connection and the project is small, it only takes seconds for the world to see yet another possible branch in technology's evolution. Read More

US Navy wants smart robots with morals, ethics
The US Office of Naval Research this week offered a $7.5m grant to university researchers to develop robots with autonomous moral reasoning ability. Read More

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