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What Comes After the Roomba?
It has been 16 years since the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner was introduced by iRobot.
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With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too
Remember the last time you felt terrified during a horror movie? Take that moment, and all the suspense leading up to it, and imagine it individually calibrated...
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Teleportation Over a 6-Kilometre Cable, Courtesy of Quantum Powers
The fibre-optic cables that carry Internet traffic can also be used for a powerful form of the strange phenomenon known as quantum teleportation.
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Here's What the Quantum Internet Has in Store
A future 'quantum internet' could find use long before it reaches technological maturity, a team of physicists predicts.
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Your Brain Is Like 100 Billion Mini-Computers All Working Together
Each of our brain cells could work like a mini-computer, according to the first recording of electrical activity in human cells at a super-fine level of detail....
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Scientists Help Robots 'Evolve.' Weirdness Ensues
Evolution is a trip. On the one hand, it's a seemingly simple mechanism—those best fitted to their environment have more babies, while less fit individuals don't...
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Double the Fun: Mars Scientists Push NASA to Send Rock-Harvesting Rover to Two Sites
NASA's next Mars rover—the first to gather rock samples meant to come back to Earth—should dream big and visit as many places on the red planet as possible, scientists...
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Shaken by Hype, Self-Driving Leaders Adopt New Strategy: Shutting p
Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy: Slow down. And shut up...
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Nvidia pdates Its Moon Landing Conspiracy Debunk with Its New GP
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon almost 50 years ago, but some conspiracy theorists don't believe that it actually happened.
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AI on a MEMS Device Brings Neuromorphic Computing to the Edge
In order to achieve the edge computing that people talk about in a host of applications including 5G networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), you need to pack...
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These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos, for Now
For weeks, computer scientist Siwei Lyu had watched his team's deepfake videos with a gnawing sense of unease.
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All Systems Go for Second-Ever Mission to Enter Mercury's Orbit
A European rocket is ready to launch the most ambitious mission ever taken towards Mercury, Earth's once-neglected sibling in the Solar System.
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World's Fastest Camera Can See Light Moving in Slo-Mo
Scientists from Caltech and the University of Quebec have developed the world's fastest camera, which is capable of capturing a record-breaking 10 trillion frames...
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Riskiest Landing of Japan's Asteroid Mission Delayed ntil January
Touchdown of the Hayabusa2 mothership has been postponed because of unexpectedly rough terrain.
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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Mars Virtual Reality Software Wins NASA Award
A mixed-reality software that allows scientists and engineers to virtually walk on Mars recently received NASA's 2018 Software of the Year Award.
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Supercharged Crime-Scene DNA Analysis Sparks Privacy Concerns
Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year are set to become vastly more powerful, suggest...
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AIs Invent Weird New Limbs to Beat Virtual Obstacle Courses
What are the best two legs for running an obstacle course? One leg that crawls at the knee joint, and one massive leg dragged behind for stability like a kangaroo's...
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The Ick of AI That Impersonates Humans
Philip K. Dick was living a few miles north of San Francisco when he wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which envisioned a world where artificially intelligent...
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