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How Graphene Could Cool Smartphone, Computer, and Other Electronics Chips
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How Graphene Could Cool Smartphone, Computer, and Other Electronics Chips

A Rutgers-led study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proposes an integrated graphene-based active on-chip cooling solution.

Nasa Selects Cubesat, Smallsat Mission Concept Studies
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Nasa Selects Cubesat, Smallsat Mission Concept Studies

NASA has selected 10 studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program to develop mission concepts using small satellites to investigate...

Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse

It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...

The Battle For Top AI Talent Only Gets Tougher From Here
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The Battle For Top AI Talent Only Gets Tougher From Here

Andrew Ng helped create two of Silicon Valley's leading artificial intelligence labs.

Spintronic Technology Advances with Newly Designed Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
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Spintronic Technology Advances with Newly Designed Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

A Japanese team of researchers has succeeded in applying MgGa2O4 as an alternative to more conventional tunnel barrier materials, demonstrating that magnetic tunnel...

'flying Saucer' Colloidal Quantum Dots Produce Brighter, Better Lasers
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'flying Saucer' Colloidal Quantum Dots Produce Brighter, Better Lasers

Scientists have developed a method for creating laser light using colloidal quantum dots, an important step toward practical lasing technology

Self-Healing Graphene Holds Promise For Artificial Skin in Future Robots
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Self-Healing Graphene Holds Promise For Artificial Skin in Future Robots

A previously undocumented self-healing property of graphene' could become viable for use in the next generation of electronics, leading to such developments as flexible...

Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer
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Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer

Impressive advances in artificial intelligence technology tailored for legal work have led some lawyers to worry that their profession may be Silicon Valley's next...

Chemists Are First in Line For Quantum Computing's Benefits
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Chemists Are First in Line For Quantum Computing's Benefits

This month IBM and Google both said they aim to commercialize quantum computers within the next few years (Google specified five), selling access to the exotic...

Research Leads to a Golden Discovery For Wearable Technology
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Research Leads to a Golden Discovery For Wearable Technology

Researchers have developed a way to "grow" thin layers of gold on single crystal wafers of silicon, remove the gold foils, and use them as substrates on which to...

Nano-Implant Could One Day Help Restore Sight
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Nano-Implant Could One Day Help Restore Sight

With high-resolution retinal prosthesis built from nanowires and wireless electronics, engineers are one step closer to restoring neurons' ability to respond to...

High-Precision Calculations Help Reveal the Physics of the ­niverse
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High-Precision Calculations Help Reveal the Physics of the ­niverse

Argonne researchers have developed a new theoretical approach, suited for high-performance computing systems, capable of making predictive calculations about particle...

Car Wars
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Car Wars

The stakes are impossibly high. Self-driving cars are arguably the great technological promise of the 21st century.

Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems
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Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems

Researchers have discovered a new way of using laser light to tune electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal.

Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently
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Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently

An algorithm developed at Brown University allows robots ask questions to get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot assistants.

Reducing Conducting Thin Film Surface Roughness For Electronics
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Reducing Conducting Thin Film Surface Roughness For Electronics

In a advance for microelectronics, University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers have established electrical surface treatment of conducting thin films as a physical...

Super-Fast Parkinson's App Will Track Symptoms More Closely
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Super-Fast Parkinson's App Will Track Symptoms More Closely

A smartphone app that uses deep learning lets people with Parkinson's disease test their symptoms at home in just 4 minutes.

Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?
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Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?

Frank Yiannas has spent years looking in vain for a better way to track lettuce, steaks and snack cakes from farm and factory to the shelves of Walmart, where he...

Bubble-Recoil Could Be Used to Cool Microchips, Even in Space
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Bubble-Recoil Could Be Used to Cool Microchips, Even in Space

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown how a miniscule vapor-recoil force can be harnessed to cool high-power microelectronics, even in...

Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos
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Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.
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