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• For future wearables, the network could be you

  UC San Diego researchers have developed a magnetic-field network to link wearable devices through the user's body.

• Robot apocalypse unlikely, but researchers need to understand AI risks

  Recent concerns from tech luminaries about a robot apocalypse may be overblown, but artificial intelligence researchers need to start thinking about security measures as they build ever more intelligent machines, according to a group of AI experts.

• Wi-Fi signals can do rough head counts

  We're all walking around in a soup of Wi-Fi signals, but researchers say they can be put to another use -- counting people.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, May 20

  Six from China charged in US IP theft... ARM teams with Unicef on wearables... Microsoft previewing new Office for Android apps... and more tech news.

• Google's Eric Schmidt double dips: To make second Virginia Tech commencement address

  Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has been named as the speaker for the 5,000-strong <a href="http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2015/04/040915-president-universityspeaker.html">Virginia Tech Class of 2015 commencement</a> on May 15 at Lane Stadium/Worsham Field.

• Cuba's pending tech revolution

  Cuba is on the threshold of getting, potentially, a massive technology upgrade, thanks to a US decision to ease economic sanctions. But this tiny island nation needs a lot of work.

• Researchers, medical workers seek tech answers to Ebola outbreak

  WORCESTER, Mass. -- Researchers in robotics will meet with health care and aid workers around the country Friday to get ideas on how technology could help fight the deadly Ebola outbreak, as well as the spread of other dangerous viruses.

• Researchers to meet with aid workers to build Ebola-fighting robots

  Robotics researchers from around the country are working together to come up with technology that could help fight the deadly Ebola outbreak.

• Three Japanese win physics Nobel for invention of blue LED

  Three Japanese who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

• Scientists create one robot brain to rule them all

  Researchers are creating a single, massive repository of robot knowledge so machines around the world can learn from each other.

• Could drones get X-ray vision through Wi-Fi?

  Researchers have developed mobile robots that can use Wi-Fi signals to effectively "see through" walls. It's raising the possibility of flying drones using the technology to see inside buildings.

• University researchers develop glasses-free display

  Fumbling around for your near-vision glasses to read the tablet screen? University researchers may have come up with a way to alleviate that problem.

• Flashy, storage-happy supercomputers due in 2015

  Supercomputing speed is typically boosted by adding more processors, but two new systems funded by the National Science Foundation due to go live next January will take an unconventional approach to speed up calculations and data analysis.

• The surprise power hog for mobile storage: software

  Flash storage can be a big power consumer in mobile devices, but it's not the flash that sucks up all that energy, it's the software that goes with it, according to researchers from the University of California at San Diego and Microsoft.

• Top 20 colleges for computer science majors, based on earning potential

  Among computer science grads, alumni from University of California, Berkeley, led the pack with a median mid-career salary of $141,400, PayScale says.