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Lining ­p For New High-Density Memory Devices
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Lining ­p For New High-Density Memory Devices

Scientists grew a vertically aligned nanocomposites lattice on with layers that exhibited strong, perpendicular (vertical) magnetic coupling, which could lead to...

MIT Media Lab to Participate in $27 Million Initiative on AI Ethics and Governance
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MIT Media Lab to Participate in $27 Million Initiative on AI Ethics and Governance

The MIT Media Lab and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society are the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at addressing the...

The Purpose of Business in the Coming Smart Machine Age
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The Purpose of Business in the Coming Smart Machine Age

Business needs a new story about its purpose to enable the kind of productive and creative activity that will become even more critical to its success in the emerging...

Nanoparticle Catalysts Outperform Single Metal Atoms
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Nanoparticle Catalysts Outperform Single Metal Atoms

Scientists determined that the active sites for two reactions involving carbon dioxide are associated with small platinum particles and not single platinum atoms...

Team Creates Accessible Tools For Musicians with Disabilities
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Team Creates Accessible Tools For Musicians with Disabilities

Working with artists with disabilities, a team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been creating more accessible tools and instruments...

Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots
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Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots

Each of these trucks is the size of a small two-story house. None has a driver or anyone else on board.

Researcher explores Earwax's Potential as Robotic Filter
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Researcher explores Earwax's Potential as Robotic Filter

Alexis Noel, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is exploring the innovative potential of earwax as a high-tech filter for use in robotics...

What's Your 'public Credit Score'? The Shanghai Government Can Tell You
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What's Your 'public Credit Score'? The Shanghai Government Can Tell You

The Shanghai city government thinks it can make citizens more honest through a smartphone app.

Implantable Microrobots: Manufacturing Platform Makes Intricate Biocompatible Micromachines
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Implantable Microrobots: Manufacturing Platform Makes Intricate Biocompatible Micromachines

A team of researchers has developed a way to manufacture microscale-sized machines from biomaterials that can safely be implanted in the human body.

The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China
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The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China

One afternoon in December, Kevin Geiger was giving one of his regular talks about storytelling in virtual reality.

Apple Removes New York Times App in China 
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Apple Removes New York Times App in China 

Apple has removed the New York Times app from its store in China after a government request, in an example of how far the company will go to please the authorities...

Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks
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Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks

A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors.

Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)
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Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)

What does 2017 hold for the world of tech and media?

Intel: We'll Be Your Net-Connected, Self-Driving Car's Brains
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Intel: We'll Be Your Net-Connected, Self-Driving Car's Brains

It's go time for Intel.

Watch Out Hackers: Deploying Ransomware Is Now a Crime in California
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Watch Out Hackers: Deploying Ransomware Is Now a Crime in California

As of January 1, the delivery of ransomware is illegal in California thanks to Senate Bill 1137 going into effect.

Electrons 'puddle' ­nder High Magnetic Fields, Study Reveals
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Electrons 'puddle' ­nder High Magnetic Fields, Study Reveals

In a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, researchers used extremely high magnetic fields — equivalent to those found in...

Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?
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Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?

A 3-D printing-like approach to manufacturing may help make stretchable electronics more prevalent, say researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology...

Engineers Create Programmable Silk-Based Materials With Embedded, Pre-Designed Functions
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Engineers Create Programmable Silk-Based Materials With Embedded, Pre-Designed Functions

Tufts University engineers have created a new format of solids made from silk protein that can be preprogrammed with biological, chemical, or optical functions,...

Novel Hardware-Based Modeling Approach For Multi-Robot Tasks
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Novel Hardware-Based Modeling Approach For Multi-Robot Tasks

Researchers at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute propose implementing a hardware-based modeling system for multi-robot collaborative tasks concentrating on...

How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar
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How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar

Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite.
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