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The battery-free phone can sense speech, actuate the earphones, and switch between uplink and downlink communications, all in real time. It is powered by either ambient radio signals or light. Image credit: Mark Stone, University of Washington.

First Battery-Free Cellphone Harvests Power from Ambient Radio Signals, Light

Jul 14, 2017 by News Staff

A team of computer scientists and electrical engineers at the University of Washington has invented a cellphone that requires no batteries and harvests...

Example applications for on-body communication using the fingerprint sensors on smartphones. The smartphone can securely send information to doorknobs or glucose sensors over the body. Image credit: Vikram Iyer / University of Washington.

Scientists Find Way to Send Passwords via Human Body

Oct 3, 2016 by News Staff

A new technique devised by a team of researchers at the University of Washington leverages the signals already generated by fingerprint sensors on smartphones...

Turing test: one judge-two hidden interlocutors. Image credit: Kevin Warwick & Huma Shah, Coventry University / Christopher Chapman, University of Reading.

New Study Exposes Major Flaw in Turing Test

Jul 5, 2016 by News Staff

A serious problem in the Turing test — a test posited by the famed British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing which, if passed, would...

Standard interpretation of the Turing Test: player C, the interrogator, is tasked with trying to determine which player - A or B - is a computer and which is a human. Image credit: Hugo Férée / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Supercomputer Program Passes Turing Test Posing as 13-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy

Jun 10, 2014 by News Staff

A supercomputer program dubbed ‘Eugene Goostman’ has passed the iconic Turing Test by fooling human judges into thinking they were talking to a 13-year-old...