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Engineers Create New Architecture For Vaporizable Electronics
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Engineers Create New Architecture For Vaporizable Electronics

Engineers from Cornell University and Honeywell Aerospace have demonstrated a new method for remotely vaporizing electronics into thin air, giving devices the ability...

Microsoft's 'ink to Code' Turns Drawings Into ­ser Interfaces
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Microsoft's 'ink to Code' Turns Drawings Into ­ser Interfaces

Sketching out rough ideas—traditionally on the back of a napkin in the US, backs of envelopes being preferred in the UK—is a common and important part of the design...

Engineers Develop Flexible, Water-Repellent Graphene Circuits For Washable Electronics
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Engineers Develop Flexible, Water-Repellent Graphene Circuits For Washable Electronics

New graphene printing technology can produce electronic circuits that are low-cost, flexible, highly conductive, and water repellent.

Why Robots Should Shake the Bejeezus Out of Cherry Trees
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Why Robots Should Shake the Bejeezus Out of Cherry Trees

I don't think sci-fi saw this coming. For so long, futuristic books and films have promised us robots like C-3PO that translate alien languages and assist us in...

Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware

When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.

China's Breathtaking Transformation Into a Scientific Superpower
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China's Breathtaking Transformation Into a Scientific Superpower

The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial "Science & Engineering Indicators," a voluminous document describing...

China Declared World's Largest Producer of Scientific Articles
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China Declared World's Largest Producer of Scientific Articles

For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National...

Watch a Single Thought Move Across a Human Brain
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Watch a Single Thought Move Across a Human Brain

Neuroscientists have tracked the path of a human thought through the brain from beginning to end. The new research reveals the abilities of the prefrontal cortex...

I Am a Roboticist in a Cheese Factory
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I Am a Roboticist in a Cheese Factory

Most people think about robots as autonomous machines guided by artificial intelligence.

Groundbreaking Experiment Will Test the Limits of Quantum Theory
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Groundbreaking Experiment Will Test the Limits of Quantum Theory

Scientists from three U.K. universities are to test one of the fundamental laws of physics as part of a major Europe-wide project awarded more than £3m (US$4.17...

Artificial Intelligence Will Be a Human Jobs Creator
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Artificial Intelligence Will Be a Human Jobs Creator

In 2013, James "Jimi" Crawford founded a company called Orbital Insight, barely noticed at the time amid the Silicon Valley froth.

How a 22-Year-Old Discovered the Worst Chip Flaws in History
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How a 22-Year-Old Discovered the Worst Chip Flaws in History

In 2013, a teenager named Jann Horn attended a reception in Berlin hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He and 64 other young Germans had done well in a government...

Big Bets on A.i. Open a New Frontier For Chip Start-­ps, Too
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Big Bets on A.i. Open a New Frontier For Chip Start-­ps, Too

For years, tech industry financiers showed little interest in start-up companies that made computer chips.

China Enters the Battle For AI Talent
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China Enters the Battle For AI Talent

A mountainous district in western Beijing known for its temples and mushroom production is tipped to become China's hub for industries based on artificial intelligence...

Brilliant New Headlights ­se a Million Pixels to Talk to the World
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Brilliant New Headlights ­se a Million Pixels to Talk to the World

For the most part, digital technology is all about dumping things that move.

Autos Overshadow the Small Gadgets at Ces Tech Show in Vegas
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Autos Overshadow the Small Gadgets at Ces Tech Show in Vegas

The smartphones and other small machines that used to dominate the annual CES gadget show have been overshadowed in recent years by bigger mobile devices: namely...

Intel's New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever
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Intel's New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever

This week, Intel will show off a chip that learns to recognize objects in pictures captured by a webcam. Nothing fancy about that, except that the chip uses about...

Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater
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Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater

One blue surgical drape at a time, the patient disappeared, until all that showed was a triangle of her shaved scalp.  

Can Washington Be Automated?
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Can Washington Be Automated?

It's a brisk late November afternoon in an 8th-floor office overlooking downtown Washington's Thomas Circle. The White House is an easy five block walk; the Hart...

8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018
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8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018

It was a very strange year for technology companies. They have become a "bipartisan whipping boy," a new sexist institution, responsible for the muddying of the...
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