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Quantum Computing Heavyweight Arrives as Merger Creates Quantinuum
Investors keen on quantum computing can expect the Honeywell-Cambridge Quantum merger to produce a new publicly traded company within a year.
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Researchers Find Security Flaw Affecting 37% of Smartphones
Researchers at Check Point Research have identified security flaws in the audio digital signal processor used in MediaTek's system-on-chip products.
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One of the World's Most Precise Microchip Sensors Created Thanks to a Spiderweb
Spiderwebs inspired researchers at the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology to design one of the world's most precise microchip sensors.
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Robots Won't Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon
Even Amazon's new AI-powered machines aren't nearly capable enough to handle the most important fulfillment tasks.
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Startup Built Record-Breaking 256-qubit Quantum Computer
QuEra Computing, launched by physicists at Harvard and MIT, is trying a different quantum approach to tackle impossibly hard computational tasks.
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Autonomous Electric Container Ship Completes First Trip
The world's first all-electric and emission-free container ship completed its 8.7-mile maiden voyage from Porsgrunn, Norway, to the Norwegian port of Brevik.
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3D-Printed 'Living Ink' Full of Microbes Can Release Drugs
A “living ink” made entirely from bacterial cells can be used in a three-dimensional printer to create structures that discharge drugs or absorb toxins.
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My Day With Henry Evans–A Quadriplegic Who's Gaining Movement Through Robotics
Severely quadriplegic Henry Evans has beta-tested robots as part of a 20-year collaboration with healthcare roboticist Charlie Kemp.
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Croatia's Seed-Scattering Drones Replant Forests Hurt by Fire
Flying drones are dispersing seeds in Croatia to replant hard-to-reach fire-damaged forests.
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Samsung Picks Texas Site for Advanced U.S. Chip Plant
Korean giant picks Taylor, just outside existing Austin base.
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The Pentagon's $82 Million Super Bowl of Robots
Inside a three-year competition that raises the question: How long until humans are obsolete?
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Robot Waiters Take Iraq's Mosulites Back to the Future
Two robot waiters serve diners at the White Fox restaurant in Mosul, Iraq.
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Robots Can Use Their Own Whirring to Echolocate, Avoid Collisions
Robots can navigate and avoid collisions using the sounds they produce through echolocation as bats do.
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2021 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded to Team Achieving Real-Time Simulation of Random Quantum Circuit
ACM has named a team of Chinese researchers to receive the 2021 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for simulating a random quantum circuit in real time on a supercomputer. ...
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Ford, GM Step Into Chip Business
Detroit's two biggest car companies are looking to align with computer chip makers to develop and potentially manufacture chips.
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IBM Says Quantum Chip Could Beat Standard Chips in Two Years
IBM said new techniques for building the chip eventually will produce more qubits, when combined with advances in the quantum computer's refrigeration and control...
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Superconducting Silicon-Photonic Chip Developed for Quantum Communication
The researchers resolved a long-standing challenge in quantum optics.
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Ford Steps Into the Chips Business
The automaker and GlobalFoundries have agreed to develop, and potentially produce, semiconductors in U.S. under a strategic pact.
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Drone Startup Plans Drug Deliveries to Homes in Salt Lake City
California drone startup Zipline has signed a service agreement with Utah's Intermountain Healthcare to deliver medicine and other supplies to its Salt Lake City...
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