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Error Fix For Long-Lived Qubits Brings Quantum Computers Nearer
Researchers at Yale University have achieved a 20-fold increase in quantum bit lifetime.
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Microsoft's President Explains the Company's Quiet Legal War For ser Privacy
Apple's legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another tech giant is fighting a quieter legal war over user privacy: Microsoft....
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Researchers Invent 'smart' Thread That Collects Diagnostic Data When Sutured Into Tissue
Researchers have integrated sensors, electronics, and microfluidics into threads that can be sutured through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic data...
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Scientists Glimpse Inner Workings of Atomically Thin Transistors
A team of physicists at the University of Texas at Austin says it has had the first-ever glimpse into an atomically thin new semiconducting material.
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Computer Scientists Find Way to Make All That Glitters More Realistic in Computer Graphics
A new algorithm promises to make the surfaces of a wide range of materials look a lot more realistic.
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Artificial Intelligence Camp Bridges STEM Gender Gap
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Outreach Summer allows high school girls to hear lectures and conduct research with faculty in Stanford's Artificial Intelligence...
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...
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Nasa Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer—the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of...
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Chinese Scientists to Pioneer First Human Crispr Trial
Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique.
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How the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Inched Toward the Exascale
China's Sunway TaihuLight in June topped the Top500 list as the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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Imaging Software Predicts How You Look With Different Hair Styles, Colors, Appearances
A personalized image search engine enables users to predict their appearance with a different hairstyle, or as they would look in a different time period, age,...
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Character Animation Technique Produces Realistic-Looking Bends at Joints
Phys.orgDisney researchers have developed a method to pre-compute an optimized center of rotation for each vertex in a character model.
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Program Gets Women Coding With Nasa Data
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently named 49 participants to its 2016 Datanauts program.
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Partially Automated Cars Provide Enough Benefits to Warrant Widespread Adoption of Current Safety Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the public would benefit if safety-oriented, partially automated vehicle technologies were deployed in all cars.
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X Marks the Spot For Milky Way Formation
A new understanding of our galaxy's structure began in an unlikely way: on Twitter. A research effort sparked by tweets led scientists to confirm that the Milky...
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Baidu ses Millions of sers' Location Data to Make Predictions
Baidu, China's internet search giant, has shown just what you can learn when you have access to enough location data.
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Snowden Designs a Device to Warn If Your Iphone's Radios Are Snitching
When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA's secrets, he famously asked them put their phones in the fridge to block any...
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Scientists Program Cells to Remember and Respond to Series of Stimuli
Synthetic biology allows researchers to program cells to perform novel functions such as fluorescing in response to a particular chemical or producing drugs in...
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Wheeled Robot With Soft Rotary Motors Is 100-Percent Squishy
Rutgers University researchers have put four silicone-based wheels with air-powered motors inside of them on a robot that is as soft as a Crocs shoe.
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