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A Healthy Dose of AI
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Building a Better Battery
How researchers are improving energy storage devices for power generated from renewable sources like solar and wind.
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For Gamers With Disabilities, Creative Controllers Open Worlds
Erin Hawley grew up immersed in video games, progressing from Pong on the Atari 2600 to Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis to Tomb Raider on the Sony PlayStation...
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Farmworker vs Robot
Both human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic...
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NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of niverse
NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life in our galaxy's...
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The S Cannot Crush s, Says Huawei Founder
The founder of Huawei has said there is "no way the US can crush" the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
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Gravitational-Wave Observatory LIGO Set to Double Its Detecting Power
Spotting gravitational waves is due to become an almost hourly event in the next decade. Starting around 2023, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory...
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.S. Revives Secret Program to Sabotage Iranian Missiles and Rockets
The Trump White House has accelerated a secret American program to sabotage Iran's missiles and rockets, according to current and former administration officials...
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Six Things to Know About NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover
After 15 years, the mission of NASA's Opportunity rover has come to an end, but its successes on Mars have earned it a spot in the robot hall of fame. Here's what...
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NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End
One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface...
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Software-Defined Power Cuts Costs
Hyper-scale datacenters need more efficient control of their electrical use.
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New Horizons' Evocative Farewell Glance at ltima Thule
An evocative new image sequence from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule—the target of...
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360 Video: Curiosity Rover Departs Vera Rubin Ridge
After exploring Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge for more than a year, NASA's Curiosity rover recently moved on. But a new 360-video lets the public visit Curiosity's final...
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Auto Engineers Warn Your Car Might Be Easier to Hack Than You Think
Adding sophisticated features to vehicles to make drivers' daily commutes easier also make their new vehicles more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a new...
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The Era of General Purpose Computers is Ending
The computational economics enabled by Moore's Law is now changing.
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The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
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Bless the Overclockers: In the Data Center World, Liquid Cooling Is Becoming King
In Iron Man 2, there is a moment when Tony Stark is watching a decades-old film of his deceased father, who tells him "I'm limited by the technology of my time,...
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Friendly Nurse or Nightmare-Inducing Machine? How Culture Programs Our Taste in Robots.
Slowly and silently, they glide across the floor wearing bright yellow dresses that look as though they were plucked from a haunted 1920s boarding school.
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Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence
You can think of it as a World Cup of biochemical research.
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MIT Robot Combines Vision, Touch to Learn Game of Jenga
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a robot that taught itself to play Jenga.
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