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Tiny Wireless, Injectable Chips Use Ultrasound to Monitor Body Processes
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Tiny Wireless, Injectable Chips Use Ultrasound to Monitor Body Processes

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a single-chip implantable or injectable medical device with a total volume of less than 0.1 mm3.

Python Creator Wants to Make the Language Twice As Fast
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Python Creator Wants to Make the Language Twice As Fast

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined plans to make it twice as fast, addressing a key weakness compared...

Chinese Team Designs  62-Qubit Quantum Processor
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Chinese Team Designs 62-Qubit Quantum Processor

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China designed and produced an superconducting qubit array composed of 62 functional qubits, and...

'Nutty' Professors Develop Machine Vision Almond Grading Machine
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'Nutty' Professors Develop Machine Vision Almond Grading Machine

Researchers at the University of South Australia helped develop an automated system that simultaneously grades almond quality and detects potentially serious contaminants...

Will Exascale Computers Be Able To Work With Petascale Data?
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Will Exascale Computers Be Able To Work With Petascale Data?

George Slota at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been granted a National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the complex datasets of modern large-scale...

Flexible Nanoribbons Move Graphene Toward Use in Tech Applications
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Flexible Nanoribbons Move Graphene Toward Use in Tech Applications

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers fabricated graphene into 12-nanometer ribbon structures that exhibit performance close to what's required for telecommunications...

Bad Software Sent U.K. Postal Workers to Jail
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Bad Software Sent U.K. Postal Workers to Jail

The convictions of 39 U.K. Post Office employees have been overturned after a court determined their convictions where based on data from a flawed software system...

Can AI Help Create More Equitable Workplaces?
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Can AI Help Create More Equitable Workplaces?

Can artificial intelligence and machine learning tools help build a more equitable workforce? New research offers some pointers.

A Tool for Navigating Complex Computer Instructions
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A Tool for Navigating Complex Computer Instructions

Scientists from MIT CSAIL and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have come up with a tool that automatically generates compiler plugins for new processor...

Google Researchers Boost Speech Recognition Accuracy With More Datasets
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Google Researchers Boost Speech Recognition Accuracy With More Datasets

Researchers at Google Research and Google Brain achieved state-of-the-art or near state-of-the-art results with a speech recognition model trained on various publicly...

IT Jobs Grew by 50,000 in March as Companies Invested in Cloud, Remote Work
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IT Jobs Grew by 50,000 in March as Companies Invested in Cloud, Remote Work

An recent analysis of federal jobs data found the IT field had its fourth straight month of job growth in March, with U.S. employers hiring 50,000 enterprise technology...

Scott Aaronson Honored with ACM Prize in Computing
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Scott Aaronson Honored with ACM Prize in Computing

Scott Aaronson of the University of Texas at Austin has been named the recipient of the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for his groundbreaking contributions to quantum...

Deep Learning Networks Prefer the Human Voice
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Deep Learning Networks Prefer the Human Voice

Columbia University researchers demonstrate that neural network image classification systems might reach higher levels of performance if they are programmed with...

Recommendation Systems Fail Fans of Non-Mainstream Music
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Recommendation Systems Fail Fans of Non-Mainstream Music

Listeners of high-energy music such as hard rock and hip-hop may be given less accurate recommendations by music recommender systems than listeners of other music...

Researchers Send Tiny Drug Delivery Robots Into Mouse Brains
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Researchers Send Tiny Drug Delivery Robots Into Mouse Brains

A team of researchers in China has managed to treat brain tumors in mice by delivering drugs to the tissues using microscopic robots.

Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird, Presages Nanoscale Robots
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Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird, Presages Nanoscale Robots

Researchers created a microscale self-folding origami bird to demonstrate micron-sized shape memory actuators that enable atomically thin two-dimensional materials...

FSU Researchers Enhance Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms
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FSU Researchers Enhance Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms

Florida State University Professor William Oates and postdoctoral researcher Guanglei Xu found a way to automatically infer parameters used in an important quantum...

One Researcher's Mission to Encourage Reproducibility in Machine Learning
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One Researcher's Mission to Encourage Reproducibility in Machine Learning

A researcher has started the "Papers Without Code" website with a goal of having a centralized list of machine learning papers that are not implementable.

Machine Learning Reduces Impact of Noise on Quantum Circuits
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Machine Learning Reduces Impact of Noise on Quantum Circuits

Noise-aware circuit learning, a framework based on machine learning, is poised to play a key role in reaching quantum advantage.

Software Bug Keeping Hundreds In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates
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Software Bug Keeping Hundreds In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates

Whistleblowers at the Arizona Department of Corrections say that hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because...
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