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Artificial Intelligence For Everyday ­se: Coming Soon
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Artificial Intelligence For Everyday ­se: Coming Soon

Real-world artificial-intelligence applications are popping up in unexpected places—and much sooner than you might think.

Arms Control Groups ­rge Human Control of Robot Weaponry
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Arms Control Groups ­rge Human Control of Robot Weaponry

Two international arms control groups on Monday issued a report that called for maintaining human control over a new generation of weapons that are increasingly...

Insanely Detailed 3-D Globe of the Moon Shows Every Dimple
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Insanely Detailed 3-D Globe of the Moon Shows Every Dimple

Four years ago, fresh out of graduate school at the Royal College of Art in London, Oscar Lhermitte stumbled across some high-resolution images of the moon.

System Helps Aircraft Automatically Avoid Mid-Air Collisions
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System Helps Aircraft Automatically Avoid Mid-Air Collisions

DARPA has successful tested a shoebox-sized, plug-and-play system designed to enable manned and unmanned aircraft to automatically detect nearby aircraft and avoid...

Our Top 5 Wacky Nasa Missions that Might Just Happen
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Our Top 5 Wacky Nasa Missions that Might Just Happen

Meet the space technologies of tomorrow—or maybe a decade after that.

Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing
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Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing

Physicists at Ames Laboratory have discovered a topological metal, PtSn4, with a unique electronic structure that may someday lead to energy efficient computers...

Why the Nba Slapped the Wrist of Matthew Dellavedova
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Why the Nba Slapped the Wrist of Matthew Dellavedova

Something seemed off about Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Matthew Dellavedova during last Thursday night's game against the Brooklyn Nets.

Stabilizing Quantum Bits
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Stabilizing Quantum Bits

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to preserving superposition in a class of quantum devices built from synthetic diamonds. The work could be an important...

Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ­ltimate Test
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Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ­ltimate Test

It is the elephant in the room for dark-matter research: a claimed detection that is hard to believe, impossible to confirm and surprisingly difficult to explain...

Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast Lane
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Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast Lane

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes as small as eight-tenths of a nanometer in diameter can transport protons faster...

Cooling Chips With the Flip of a Switch
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Cooling Chips With the Flip of a Switch

Researchers at Penn State have created a dielectric material that can hold absorbed heat even after the external electric field has been switched off.

Microsoft Strikes Partnership With Banks on Blockchain Tech
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Microsoft Strikes Partnership With Banks on Blockchain Tech

Microsoft Inc. has pulled ahead of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, International Business Machines Corp., and Amazon.com Inc. in the race for supremacy in operating other...

Scientists Push Valleytronics One Step Closer to Reality
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Scientists Push Valleytronics One Step Closer to Reality

Scientists with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a step toward the practical application of "valleytronics," which could lead to faster and more...

Flagship Brain Project Releases Neuro-Computing Tools
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Flagship Brain Project Releases Neuro-Computing Tools

Europe's major brain-research project has unveiled a set of prototype computing tools and called on the global neuroscience community to start using them.

The Future of Wildlife Conservation Is … an Electronic Vulture Egg
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The Future of Wildlife Conservation Is … an Electronic Vulture Egg

The vultures of Britain's International Centre for Birds of Prey don't know it, but they're dupes.

Outshone By Smaller Screens, Pcs Aim to Be Seen as Cool Again
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Outshone By Smaller Screens, Pcs Aim to Be Seen as Cool Again

Dion Weisler, the chief executive of HP Inc., recently held out a bulky laptop that was the pride of 2012. "This is the laptop we had when I came here," he said...

Heat Transferred ­sing Light at the Nanoscale
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Heat Transferred ­sing Light at the Nanoscale

A research team has demonstrated a strong, non-contact heat transfer channel using light with performances that could lead to high efficiency electricity generation...

­.s. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival
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­.s. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival

Warwick Mills shows the kind of innovative know-how common among American textile companies that have survived the fierce global competition of recent years.

How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence
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How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence

Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper.

Single Wi-Fi Access Point Provides Accurate Localization
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Single Wi-Fi Access Point Provides Accurate Localization

A system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) enables a single Wi-Fi access point to locate users to within tens of centimeters...
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