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.S. Passes Bill to Inject $1.2 Billion Into the Quantum Tech Race
The new law, called the National Quantum Initiative Act, allocates up to $1.2 billion in funding to keep American quantum information science competitive on the...
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Machine Vision Can Create Harry Potter-Style Photos for Muggles
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
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Brazilian Museum Destroyed by Fire Lives on Through Google
Google is helping preserve Brazil's National Museum via a virtual exhibition, three months after the institution's destruction by fire.
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An Amoeba Just Found an Entirely New Way to Solve a Classic Computing Problem
Researchers gave the Traveling Salesman Problem to a "true slime mold" amoeba.
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A Robotic Hand Plays the Piano With a More Human Touch
Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can play the piano.
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Computer Hardware for 3D Games Could Hold the Key to Replicating the Brain
Researchers have developed what they describe as the fastest, most energy-efficient simulation of part of a rat brain, using off-the-shelf computer hardware.
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Network Orchestration: SL Researcher ses Music to Manage Networks
Saint Louis University researchers have proposed a sound-based traffic-management solution for network orchestration.
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A Toaster on Wheels to Deliver Groceries? Self-Driving Tech Tests Practical ses
Slow uptake of driverless passenger services is spurring the autonomous industry to experiment with offerings like food deliveries from small, self-driving vehicles...
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Then One Foggy Christmas Eve, Reindeers Got Connected
Reindeer herders in Finland are fitting their animals with Internet-connected collars to keep track of their whereabouts in the wilderness, using a mobile app. ...
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Meet 'Millie' the Avatar. She'd Like to Sell You a Pair of Sunglasses
A Canadian startup has created a life-size digital avatar to help retail brands looking for ways to boost falling in-store sales in the face of growing competition...
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Deep Learning Technique Reveals 'Invisible' Objects in the Dark
Engineers used a deep neural network to train a computer to reconstruct transparent objects from images captured in almost total darkness.
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Hyundai Develops Fingerprint Tech to Unlock and Start Cars
Hyundai Motor has developed a system that will allow drivers to unlock and start their vehicles using only their fingerprints.
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Synthesizing Natural Products With a Computational Step Saver
Yale University researchers have reduced the number of steps needed to synthesize two natural anticancer products, using a strategy for computational analysis in...
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Students Win High-Performance Computing Competition
A team of students from the University of Cape Town in South Africa took first place in the Student Cluster Competition.
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Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments
Businesses, universities, and governments increasingly are turning to algorithms to make crucial decisions about how to treat customers and citizens.
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Sydney Motorists sing Mobile Phones Will Be Snapped in Camera Trial
Drivers who illegally use mobile phones while driving will have their pictures taken along several motorways in Sydney, Australia, in a pilot of new high-tech cameras...
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Zero-day Flaw in the IE Browser
CVE-2018-8653 must be patched manually for now.
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Nurse Robot Moxi Gets Schooled by Texas Nurses
A robot designed to test collaborative automation integration in a working medical facility recently concluded its first real-world trial in a Texas hospital.
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Computers Determine States of Consciousness
A new algorithm can distinguish between unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and a minimally conscious state through the use of electroencephalographic brainwave...
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