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Meek China Response to U.S. Chip Restrictions Raises Eyebrows
Beijing typically "retaliates fully plus 10 percent," but this time it doesn't seem to have many punitive options.
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Uber Eats Launches Robot Delivery Service in Miami
Online food ordering and delivery platform Uber Eats has launched a robot food delivery service in Miami via a partnership with robotics firm Cartken.
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Gen Z Overwhelmed by 'Tech Shame' at Work
An HP survey of 10,000 office workers worldwide found Generation Z employees are most likely to feel technological frustration at work.
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Security Researchers Cite Theorem of Infinitely Typing Monkeys
An international team of scientists led by Germany's Ruhr-Universität Bochum is developing new techniques to efficiently identify coding errors in embedded systems...
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Humans vs. Robots: The Battle Reaches a 'Turning Point'
Warehouse robots increasingly are able to grasp and sort objects of various shapes and sizes with the dexterity of human hands.
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FBI Cybersecurity Program for Critical Infrastructure Hacked
A database with contact information for elite cybersecurity professionals is now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder.
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U.S. Finds its 'Center of Gravity' in the Fight Against Ransomware
Yet the threat remains pervasive.
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Reconfiguring It Out
A researcher plumbs reconfigurable quantum circuits for high-performance computers and cellphones.
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Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco
They have blocked traffic, driven on the sidewalk, sped away from cops — and the city is powerless to stop them.
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The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer
Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?
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Computational System Streamlines Design of Fluidic Devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers were part of a team that built a new system to simplify the process of designing fluidic devices.
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The Highest-Paying College Majors in 2022, Ranked
PayScale's annual ranking of the highest-paying college majors ranks electrical engineering and computer science at No. 1.
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Japanese Company's Lunar Lander Launches to the Moon
The company, Ispace, is carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, a Japanese robot, and other cargo in its bid to possibly be the first commercial lander...
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AMD Bets Its Future On Moore's Law
The company says Moore's Law still has a good 6-8 years of life, thanks to next-generation transistor technologies.
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DeepMind's AlphaCode Can Outcompete Human Coders
DeepMind's AlphaCode model performed well against human coders in a programming competition.
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Smallest Robotic Arm Is Controlled by AI
Researchers manipulated silver atoms into a lattice configuration via deep reinforcement learning, a critical advance for nanodevice construction.
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Pentagon Picked Four Tech Companies to Form $9B Cloud Computing Network
Microsoft agrees multi-cloud strategy is "the right one" for U.S. Defense Department.
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LiDAR Technique Could Help Robotic Vehicles Land Safely on Mars
Researchers at the NASA Langley Research Center have developed a LiDAR technique to improve the safety of robotic vehicle landings during future Mars or lunar missions...
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Cosmic Rays Are Quantum Computers' Kryptonite
University of Chicago researchers reduced the rate of catastrophic quantum computing errors attributable to cosmic rays from about once every 10 seconds to once...
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