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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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How VR Is Augmenting Realty
Over the past 30 years, virtual reality has evolved from a science fiction curiosity to an essential tool for the real estate industry.
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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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Better Listening with Lossless Audio
The challenges and opportunities of Hi-Res streaming music services.
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How Do U.S. Students' Computer, Information Literacy Skills Stack Up?
An international study gauges students' computer and information literacy skills, along with computational thinking.
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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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Hyundai Develops Next-Generation Noise Cancellation Technology
Hyundai researchers developed next-generation active noise cancellation (ANC) technology.
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U.S. Army Creating Robots That Can Follow Orders
Researchers have developed software that allows robots to understand verbal instructions, carry out those instructions, and report back.
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Bespoke Bionic Hand Made in 10 Hours
Researchers have developed a method of three-dimensionally printing a bionic hand that incorporates muscle sensors to control an articulated thumb, enabling it...
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Man versus Artificial Intelligence: From Deep Blue to DeepMind in 20 Years
Garry Kasparov and DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis discuss Kasparov's new book "Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins," his chess...
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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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Fordham Business Students Have New Tool to Prepare Them for Boardrooms: VR
Fordham University students are using virtual reality technology to build their business skills in simulated environments.
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AI System Evolves to Evade Internet Censorship
A artificial intelligence system based on genetic evolution has learned to automatically evade online censorship by repressive governments.
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Sensor to Save Children, Pets Left in Vehicles
A new device combines radar technology with artificial intelligence to detect unattended children or animals left in vehicles when the driver leaves with 100% accuracy...
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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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Drone Registration Made Compulsory as U.K. Scheme Launches
A new mandatory national registration scheme calls for drone users in the U.K. to pass an online test and pay a £9 annual fee, or face a £1,000 fine.
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Software Developers in Fintech, Cloud Sectors Earn the Most in South Africa
South African software developers in the fintech and cloud services sectors are the most highly paid developers, according to the “2019 State of South Africa's...
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