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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2021
Spoiler: We're looking at another year of Internet services dominating many aspects of our lives.
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How DOE Researchers Are Using AI, Robots to Design the Successor to Lithium-Ion Batteries
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Center for Energy Storage Research are using artificial intelligence and robots to design an organic redox-flow...
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Autonomous Shipping Charts Its Course
The maritime industry wades into digitalization; will it float?
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Fermilab and Partners Achieve Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time a sustained, long-distance teleportation of qubits made of photons with fidelity greater than 90%, paving the way...
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Hackers Exploit Backdoor Built Into Zyxel Devices
Niels Teusink, a researcher at Netherlands-based security firm Eye Control, found that hackers are attempting to exploit a backdoor built into several Zyxel device...
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How Supercomputing, Advanced X-Rays Helped the Government Fight Covid-19
More than a decade of research advanced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photo Source played a role in the development of the Covid-19 vaccines.
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Drone-Crowded Skies Get a Step Closer With U.S. Safety Rules
New regulations from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration will require most U.S. drones to broadcast a radio signal identifying them and their location.
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Nuro to Be California's First Driverless Delivery Service
California has approved the operation of R2 driverless delivery vehicles from robotics startup Nuro.
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Battery-Free IoT: These Tiny Printable Computers Harvest Energy From Radio Waves
The Wiliot Internet of Things tag is a printable chip that harvests energy from ambient radio waves, so it requires no battery.
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2020 Put Us On the Edge of a Processor Revolution
Upscaled looks back at a big year for CPUs.
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Underwater Robot Designed to keep Tabs on Fish Farms
Researchers at Norway's SINTEF institute are designing an underwater robot to autonomously inspect fish farms.
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Does the Shoe Fit? Try It On with Augmented Reality
Retailers are increasingly reliant on augmented reality technology to help consumers try on products, hoping to virtually recreate the real-world shopping experience...
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Our Digital Lives Drive a Brick-and-Mortar Boom in Datacenters
Developers and investors see more opportunities in commercial real estate as businesses and consumers gobble up more data.
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A Touch of Reality
The field of haptics—the use of technology to simulate touch, feeling, and motion—is finally hitting its stride.
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Fugaku Takes the Lead
Japan tops the Top500 supercomputer rankings, for the moment.
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Tiny Quantum Computer Solves Real Optimization Problem
Researchers showed that a small but well-functioning quantum computer was able to solve a small portion of a real logistics problem in the aviation industry.
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In a First, Air Force Uses Artificial Intelligence Aboard Military Jet
No weapons were involved, and the plane was steered by a pilot.
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Major Computing Breakthrough: Copenhagen Researchers Can Now Achieve “Quantum Advantage”
University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a chip that, with financial backing, could be scaled up and used to build the quantum simulator of the future...
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