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Dexterous Robotic Hands Manipulate Objects with Ease
A new system can enable robotic hands to handle more than 2,000 different objects.
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Can Electric Cars Help Strengthen Electrical Grids?
A computational model shows how using vehicle-to-grid technology to store electricity in electric vehicles, selling it back to the utility as needed, can improve...
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First Global River Database Documents 40 Years of Change
A new database shows the movement of the river centerlines of the 48 most threatened deltas in the world over the past 40 years.
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Tracked Bottom-Crawling Robot Gathers Valuable Deep-Sea Data
The Benthic Rover II robot has spent seven years collecting deep-sea data 140 miles off California's coast.
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Key Witness Helps Scientists Detect 'Spooky' Quantum Entanglement in Solid Materials
Researchers have devised a viable "quantum entanglement witness" for proving the existence of spooky quantum entanglement in solid materials.
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Walmart Using Fully Driverless Trucks to Ramp Up Online Grocery Business
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is using fully driverless trucks for its online grocery business.
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Botnet Buster Finds IoT Command and Control Centers
University of California, Riverside computer scientists have developed a tool that cripples botnets by fooling them into exposing their Internet of Things command...
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Drone at Pennsylvania Electric Substation First to 'Specifically Target Energy Infrastructure'
A July 2020 drone crash was the first known case of a "modified unmanned aircraft system likely being used in the U.S. to specifically target energy infrastructure...
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Deep Learning AI Explained: Neural Networks
Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as "deep learning" revives 70-year-old idea.
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Climate Change Now the Main Driver of Increasing Wildfire Weather
Scientists say climate change is now the primary driver of extreme wildfires in the western U.S., with global warming largely responsible for conditions fueling...
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Smart Scheduling for Big Computing Tasks Cuts Emissions Up to a Third
Researchers found that shifting large computing jobs to nights or weekends can lower carbon emissions from datacenters by as much as a third.
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Eight Ways Quantum Computing Is Going to Change the World
Businesses are already exploring the future potential of quantum computers, and some industries anticipate big changes ahead.
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Brain Implants Could Be the Next Computer Mouse
What the world's fastest brain-typist is telling us about the future of computer interfaces.
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Big Teacher Is Watching: How AI Spyware Took Over Schools
The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online....
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Quantum Crypto Crams into System-on-a-Chip
Toshiba researchers have developed a secure quantum communication system.
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'PodoSighter' Uses AI to Identify Kidney Disease Indicator
The PodoSighter tool identifies early indicators of kidney disease by detecting podocytes, a specialized kidney cell damaged during early-stage kidney disease. ...
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Chinese Scientists Develop Quantum Computer with 113 Detected Photons
Chinese scientists have developed a quantum computer prototype with 113 detected photons to solve tasks using the classical Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) modeling...
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Behold, the Worm Blob and Its Computerized Twin
A multi-institutional team of scientists devised a computer model for the study of worm blob dynamics.
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Robot Taxi Boats Take to the Water in Amsterdam
An autonomous boat taxi is set for deployment in the canals of Amsterdam.
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