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Findings Could Lead to More Efficient Electronics
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Findings Could Lead to More Efficient Electronics

A team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power electronics.

Google to Drop Pentagon AI Contract After Employee Objections to the 'Business of War'
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Google to Drop Pentagon AI Contract After Employee Objections to the 'Business of War'

Google will not seek to extend its contract next year with the Defense Department for artificial intelligence used to analyze drone video, squashing a controversial...

How One Apple Programmer Got Apps Talking to Each Other
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How One Apple Programmer Got Apps Talking to Each Other

Just six months after joining Apple, Sal Soghoian's job was already on the line.

Researchers Describe New Method to Boost Electron Mobility, Conductivity
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Researchers Describe New Method to Boost Electron Mobility, Conductivity

An international team has designed a new metal-organic framework that exhibits dramatic improvements in electron mobility, which could lead to new applications...

Wireless System Can Power Devices Inside the Body
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Wireless System Can Power Devices Inside the Body

MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within...

How to Convert Your Wall into a Giant Touch Screen
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How to Convert Your Wall into a Giant Touch Screen

The right paint can add pizazz to your walls—and now it can also make them smarter.

Cell-like Nanorobots Clear Bacteria and Toxins From Blood
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Cell-like Nanorobots Clear Bacteria and Toxins From Blood

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with...

Device Allows a Personal Computer to Process Huge Graphs
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Device Allows a Personal Computer to Process Huge Graphs

Researchers from MIT CSAIL have now designed a device that uses flash memory to process  graphs consisting of billions of nodes and connecting lines using only...

Building Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Computing
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Building Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Computing

Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures using 2-D materials.

Teaching Chores To An Artificial Agent
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Teaching Chores To An Artificial Agent

Researchers will demonstrate a system that can simulate detailed household tasks and then have artificial "agents" execute them, opening up the possibility of one...

Microsoft Is Creating an Oracle for Catching Biased AI Algorithms
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Microsoft Is Creating an Oracle for Catching Biased AI Algorithms

Microsoft is building a tool to automatically identify bias in a range of different AI algorithms.

Graphene Layered With Magnetic Materials Could Drive ­ltrathin Spintronics
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Graphene Layered With Magnetic Materials Could Drive ­ltrathin Spintronics

Researchers at Berkeley Labs coupled graphene with thin layers of magnetic materials to produce exotic behavior in electrons that could be useful for next-generation...

Before Reproducibility Must Come Preproducibility
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Before Reproducibility Must Come Preproducibility

From time to time over the past few years, I've politely refused requests to referee an article on the grounds that it lacks enough information for me to check...

Researchers Devise More Effective Location Awareness for the IoT
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Researchers Devise More Effective Location Awareness for the IoT

Engineers at Tufts University have come up with an improved algorithm for localizing and tracking mobile products by distributing the task among the devices themselves...

Distracted Driver and Braking Error Cited in Autonomous ­ber Car's Fatal Crash
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Distracted Driver and Braking Error Cited in Autonomous ­ber Car's Fatal Crash

More than a second before a self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in March, the vehicle's computer system determined it needed to brake...

NIST Puts the Optical Microscope ­nder the Microscope
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NIST Puts the Optical Microscope ­nder the Microscope

Research developments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology enable optical microscopes to measure nanometer-scale motion with a new level of accuracy...

Physicists Leap Into Quantum Computing with Simulations of Atomic Nucleus
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Physicists Leap Into Quantum Computing with Simulations of Atomic Nucleus

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully simulated an atomic nucleus using a quantum computer.

Chip-Scale Broadband Optical System Can Sense Molecules in the Mid-Infrared
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Chip-Scale Broadband Optical System Can Sense Molecules in the Mid-Infrared

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have demonstrated a chip-based dual-comb spectrometer in the mid-infrared range that requires no moving parts and can acquire...

70 Years of Instant Photos, Thanks to Inventor Edwin Land's Polaroid Camera
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70 Years of Instant Photos, Thanks to Inventor Edwin Land's Polaroid Camera

It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken of her. Today, thanks to smartphones and other digital...

Batteries Still Suck, But Researchers Are Working on It
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Batteries Still Suck, But Researchers Are Working on It

Better batteries mean better products. They give us longer-lasting smartphones, anxiety-free electric transport, and potentially, more efficient energy storage...
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