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N.Y. State Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers
Proposed legislation would require subjecting consumers to criminal history background checks before permitting them to purchase certain three-dimensional printers...
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Better 'Map' of the Lights You See When You Close Your Eyes Can Improve 'Bionic Eye' Outcomes
A method of mapping phosphenes developed by researchers at Australia's Monash University could help patients receiving cortical visual protheses achieve better...
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Atom Computing First to Announce a 1,000+ Qubit Quantum Computer
A startup company has upped its qubit count by an order of magnitude in two years.
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Brain-Wave Cap Saves Lives by Identifying Strokes
The StrokePointer brain-wave cap designed by researchers in the Netherlands can diagnose large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke while patients are in an ambulance....
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Robotic Prosthetic Ankles Improve 'Natural' Movement, Stability
Researchers demonstrated that nerve impulse-driven robotic prosthetic ankles enable more natural and stable movement by amputees.
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Nvidia and iPhone Maker Foxconn to Build 'AI Factories'
Foxconn's Liu told the BBC that electric vehicles will drive the company's growth in the coming decades.
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Peering Inside a Quantum Computer Creates New Phases of Information
University of Texas at Austin researchers showed how taking certain measurements on a quantum computer results in different phases of quantum information.
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Amazon Testing Drone Delivery of Prescriptions
Amazon is testing a drone delivery service for prescription drugs in College Station, TX, with plans to expand the service to other markets in the future.
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Datacenters Could Work as Well with Less Cooling
Researchers found running datacenters at higher temperatures could reduce their energy consumption significantly while maintaining computational performance.
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Honda to Start Self-Driving Taxi Service in Tokyo, CEO Says
Venture with GM, Cruise aims to eventually have 500 robotaxis.
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AI Approach Yields 'Athletically Intelligent' Robotic Dog
An international team of researchers developed a vision-based algorithm enabling off-the-shelf quadruped robots to move from obstacle to obstacle autonomously and...
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Scientists Use Drones to Land Sensors on Threatened Glaciers
Scientists at the U.K.'s University of Southampton built a climate change-monitoring sensor that can be airlifted by drone onto glaciers to measure the effects...
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Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as Cloud Storage Solution
Microsoft said its Project Silica glass media storage technology can retain roughly 1.75 million songs or about 3,500 movies on a palm-sized glass sheet for 10,000...
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Bionic Hand Integrates with Woman's Nerves, Bones, Muscles
An international research team reported that a robotic hand attached to a Swedish woman in 2017 has fully integrated with her nerves, bones, and muscles since the...
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A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table
A new study describes a method for faster and more precise diagnoses, which can help surgeons decide how aggressively to operate.
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Can AI Crave a Favorite Food?
Pennsylvania State University' researchers emulated taste's influence on food cravings with an electronic "tongue" and "gustatory cortex" made from two-dimensional...
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Insect Cyborgs: Towards Precision Movement
Researchers explored how electrical stimulation in stick insects' leg muscles relate to the resulting torque for enabling precise motor control of hybrid insect...
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Wearables Track Parkinson's Better Than Human Observation, Study Finds
The study's authors concluded the sensors proved more effective at tracking the disease progression "than the conventionally used clinical rating scales." ...
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Quantum Repeaters Use Defects in Diamond to Interconnect Quantum Systems
Scientists are now leveraging defects in diamonds to construct quantum repeaters.
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