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Swarms of Golf Ball-Sized Robots Could Detect Leaks in the Sewers
Researchers have developed golf ball-sized robots designed to collect data as they float through pipes.
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Cows Wearing VR headsets Might Produce Better Milk
They're happier in virtual fields than confined farms.
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Race Is on to Build Quantum-Proof Encryption
Experts say quantum computing could upend data security encryption systems, which rely on factoring large prime numbers—a task easily scalable with the power provided...
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Bitcoin Will Burn the Planet Down. The Question: How Fast?
A new paper concludes that it takes more than four times as much energy to mine $1 of bitcoin as mining $1 of copper.
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Computing Power Needed to Train AI Is Rising Seven Times Faster Than Before
The computational power needed to train AI models is doubling at a rate seven times faster than before.
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Robots Aim to Boost Astronaut Efficiency
A multitude of robotic assistants for astronauts and rovers are in development to make space exploration more resource-efficient.
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The Longest Yard in Football
The National Football League is starting to use tracking technology that can distinguish exact distances and measure the value of a single inch, which could dramatically...
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World's Fastest Supercomputers Hit Higher Speeds with Linux
The latest Top500 supercomputer ratings found the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit system topping the list with a High-Performance Linpack benchmark of 148...
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Quantum Computers Learn To Mark Their Own Work
Scientists have developed a test to verify that a quantum computer is providing correct answers to questions outside the scope of traditional computing.
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Pressure-Sensing Drone Designed to Inspect Skyscrapers
Researchers at the Shenyang Institute of Automation in China have developed a prototype autonomous hexacopter drone that can inspect glass skyscrapers more quickly...
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Notes from SC19
The SC19 Supercomputing Conference has launched with the theme, "HPC is Now."
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NBA Teams Enhancing Fan Experience with High-Tech Replays
Six NBA teams are implementing 360-degree video replays in their arenas to augment the fan experience.
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Deep Learning Expands Study of Nuclear Waste Remediation
Researchers have achieved exaflop performance on the Summit supercomputer.
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Future of Autonomous Delivery May Be Unfolding in Suburban Houston
Robotics company Nuro has been field-testing delivery via autonomous vehicles (AV) in Houston.
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UNIX Version 0, Running on a PDP-7, in 2019
The Living Computers museum in Seattle has been running UNIX version 0 on a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer.
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IBM Hopes to Change Weather Forecasting Around the Globe Using Big Data, Supercomputer
IBM has launched a global weather model that it says offers more accurate forecasts for the entire world and can provide details for regions as small as two miles...
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How Russia's Online Censorship Could Jeopardize Internet Freedom Worldwide
Researchers have found Russia's Internet censorship laws have troubling implications for online freedom in the U.S. and other countries that share its decentralized...
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Worker Robots that Learn from Mistakes
Computer scientists are using the artificial intelligence techniques of automated planning and reinforcement learning to train a robot to find an object in a cluttered...
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Meal-Detection Technology Brings Artificial Pancreas Closer to Reality
Artificial intelligence researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a system that detects when someone is eating and calculates their carbohydrate...
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