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U.S. Energy Department Is First Customer for World's Biggest Chip
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories will be among the first organizations to deploy artificial intelligence computers...
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Research Suggests How Environmental Toxin Produced by Algae May Lead to ALS
Pennsylvania State University researchers used a digital simulation to explore how a toxin generated by saltwater algae might cause Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis...
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U.S. Government Urged to Boost R&D Spending
The nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation think tank has called on the U.S. government to invest an additional $40 billion annually in technology...
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Map Shows All the Code Connections Between Russia's Hacker Groups
Israeli cybersecurity firms Check Point and Intezer have charted Russian hackers' toolkits from wide-ranging analysis of 2,500 malware samples.
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Australia Using Technology to Catch Drivers on Phones
The Australian state of New South Wales will be the first jurisdiction in the world to use cameras to catch distracted drivers on their smartphones.
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Virtual Human Hand Simulation Holds Promise for Prosthetics, VR, Education
Researchers integrated visual effects techniques and magnetic resonance imaging to create an ultra-realistic animated simulation of the human hand in motion.
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Microsoft Poses Threat to Germany's Digital Sovereignty, Warns Study
An analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers has confirmed that the German government is too dependent on the software of just a few software providers.
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Fast Swimming Fish Robot Could Perform Underwater Surveillance
University of Virginia researchers have built a fish-inspired robot that can swim as fast as actual fish, and faster than similar robots.
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The CS Teacher Shortage
How can we fill more computer science classrooms when there just aren't enough teachers to go around?
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PRACE Research Conducts Computer Simulations to Study Properties of Nanosized Particles
A doctoral dissertation at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland demonstrated how computer models of nanosized particles predicted the atomic structure of a cluster...
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A Robot with a Firm Yet Gentle Grasp
A new dynamic gripper mimics the adjustable grip of the human hand, a breakthrough that could improve industrial safety.
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Criminologist Builds Computer Model for More Efficient Police Patrols
Analysis by University of Texas at Dallas assistant professor of criminology Andrew Wheeler yielded a computer model to guide the Carrollton, TX, police department...
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Fending Off Digital Sabotage
Sabotage-resistant industrial machinery combats Stuxnet-like attacks.
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U.S. Gives 3 States Grants for Self-Driving Car Research
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia its first three Automated Driving Systems Demonstration Grants to research and develop...
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AI Helps Shrink Amazon Dams' Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A model developed by a Cornell University-led research team uses artificial intelligence to find the most promising configurations of dam sites to reduce greenhouse...
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ACM Forms Global Technology Policy Council
ACM has established a new Technology Policy Council to coordinate its policy initiatives worldwide.
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These States Benefit Most From the Software Industry
A report by the Software.org:BSA Foundation found that the U.S. software industry is growing twice as fast as the nation's economy.
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World Catching Up With China on Surveillance Tech
China is the global leader in surveillance technologies, although other countries are catching up, according to a study by the Carnegie Endowment for International...
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Introducing a Virtual Planet Simulator for Modeling Distant Worlds Across Time
The University of Washington's Rory Barnes has developed software for modeling planetary evolution over time.
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