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LLNL Explores Laser Beam Shaping to Improve Metal 3D Printing
Researchers found that using Bessel beams reduced the likelihood of pore formation and "keyholing" in laser powder bed fusion, a high-power laser printing process...
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How SNPs Can Be Used to Detect Disease Pathways
Researchers have computationally harnessed single-nucleotide polymorphisms to identify disease pathways.
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National Task Force Recommends Removing Race from Kidney Function Equation
A national task force is recommending the use of a new diagnostic equation for measuring kidney function that eliminates race from the algorithm.
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Capturing Light: Ergonomic Photodetector for the Trillion-Sensor Era
Researchers demonstrated a highly efficient system of photodetectors that can surmount the constraints of conventional light-to-frequency conversion circuits.
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Messy, Incomplete U.S. Data Hobbles Pandemic Response
The nation's decentralized, underfunded reporting system hampers efforts to combat the coronavirus.
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How Supercomputers Can Help Fix Our Wildfire Problem
Fires spread with a complexity that scientists can pick apart little by little, thanks to lasers, sensors, and some of the most powerful computers.
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Research Finds Security Flaws in Apps for Popular Smart Home Devices
Researchers discovered "critical cryptographic flaws" in the smartphone companion apps of 16 popular smart home devices.
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'Stalkerware' Apps Are Proliferating. Protect Yourself
These spyware apps record your conversations, location and everything you type, all while camouflaged as a calculator or calendar.
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FAA Technology Aims to Speed Takeoffs of Planes Idling on Runways
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration officials said the agency will deploy new software to more easily estimate when planes can taxi onto a runway and take off....
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The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over
Of the 37 new emojis approved this year, one stood out as a visual proxy for our collective malaise.
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There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's Location Data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements.
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When Accidents Happen, Drones Weigh Their Options
New research by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is focused on gauging unmanned aerial vehicles' ability to recover from malfunctions...
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Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court Decisions
A study suggests pretrial risk assessment algorithms increase the likelihood that judges will change their priorities in making pretrial decisions.
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Pandemic Pushes Chinese Tech Giants to Roll Out More Courier Robots
Chinese technology giants Alibaba, Meituan, and JD.com plan to increase their courier robot fleets fourfold to more than 2,000 by next year.
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Teams Develop Code to Coordinate Robots, Win $535,000 in Space Robotics Challenge
Seven teams that competed in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge were awarded a total of $535,000.
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How AI Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony
Computer scientists, music historians, musicologists, and composers applied artificial intelligence to the task of completing Beethoven's unfinished Tenth Symphony...
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How an 11-Foot-Tall 3D Printer Is Helping to Create a Community
Three-dimensional printing can create nearly any object. A partnership in Mexico is putting that theory to the test, building a village for residents living in...
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Epic Games Believes the Internet is Broken. This is Their Blueprint to Fix It.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and other executives detail their plan for the metaverse and how it differs from Facebook's vision
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