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New Rules Allowing Small Drones to Fly Over People in U.S. Take Effect
Final rules from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that permit small drones to fly over people and to fly at night took effect April 21.
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Study: 'Fingerprint' for 3D Printer Accurate 92% of Time
To reduce illicit use of three-dimensional printers, researchers devised a method to accurately identify each machine’s unique "fingerprint."
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Walmart Is Pulling Plug on More Robots
The retailer has been phasing out automated pickup towers as curbside services have become popular.
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Will Quantum Computing Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
One expert warns that the field is overpromising, while another says his firm is on the verge of building "useful" machines.
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A Molecule That Responds to Light
Researchers have advanced the development of molecule-based materials that can serve as light-addressable fundamental quantum bits.
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Brain-on-a-Chip Would Need Little Training
Researchers used a spiking neural network on a microchip as a foundation for developing more efficient hardware-based artificial intelligence systems.
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U.S. Banks Deploy AI to Monitor Customers, Workers Amid Tech Backlash
Several U.S. banks are rolling out artificial intelligence systems to analyze customer preferences, monitor employees, and detect suspicious activity near ATMs....
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U.K. Regulator Gives Green Light to Delivery Drone Trials
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority authorized a trial in which drone company Sees.ai will operate drone flights beyond the pilot's line of sight at remote industrial...
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A Hacker's Nightmare: Programmable Chips Secured by Chaos
Ohio State University scientists demonstrated a method of using physically unclonable functions to thwart hackers.
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Researchers Develop Method for Putting Quantum Correlations to the Test
New research involving has yielded a new method for testing the quality of quantum correlations.
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A Driverless Tesla Crashed and Burned for 4 Hours, Killing 2 Passengers in Texas
Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which authorities said was operating without a driver, crashed into a tree in a Houston suburb on April 17.
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Reimagining Contact
Covid-19, which challenges how we interact with one another, is accelerating the development of touchless technologies.
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Amazon Building Computer Vision Tech to Check Defects in Fruits, Vegetables
The e-commerce giant's technology can carry out millions of assessments to grade the quality of fruits and vegetables at a cost far below any other method.
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AWS Reveals Method to Build More Accurate Quantum Computer
Amazon's cloud subsidiary has unveiled a new architecture for a fault-tolerant quantum computer.
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Novel Use of 3D Geoinformation to Identify Urban Farming Sites
A study looked at whether three-dimensional city models and urban digital twins could help identify high-rise buildings suitable for urban farming based on sunlight...
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Domino's Launches Pizza Delivery Robot Car
Pizza chain Domino's has launched a robot car pizza delivery service to select customers in Houston's Woodland Heights neighborhood.
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FTP is 50 Years Old
The 16th of April 1971 is not only the date when the Rolling Stone first released Brown Sugar, it is also marked with the publication of RFC 114 marking the birthday...
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First Multi-Node Quantum Network Paves the Way for the Quantum Internet
Researchers in the Netherlands have established an entanglement-based network between three quantum processors for the first time.
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ACM Prize Awarded to Pioneer in Quantum Computing
ACM has named Scott Aaronson the recipient of the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for his pioneering contributions to quantum computing.
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