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RoboFly On the Wall?
The future of insect-sized remote-controlled aerial robots will be electromechanical, rather than cyborg.
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Georgia Department of Education Announces New Funds for Middle School Computer Coding Courses
Georgia's Department of Education has announced $500,000 in grants to middle schools for implementing computer coding programs.
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Computational Method Puts Finer Point on Multispecies Genomic Comparisons
A new computational model enables more detailed comparative analysis of genome function across species.
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Datasets by Microsoft Research now Available in the Cloud
The goal is to provide a simple platform to Microsoft researchers and collaborators to share datasets and related research technologies and tools.
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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I Never Said That! High-Tech Deception of 'Deepfake' Videos
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?
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Quantum Open Source Fund Launched
The newly-launched Unitary Fund is offering grants of $2,000 to projects developing open source quantum software for near-term, hybrid quantum-classical programming...
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Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants
Computer scientists at Stanford University and Google have created technology that can track time down to 100 billionths of a second. It could be just what Wall...
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Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?
In Chile, politicians resent the Comptroller General, which audits government officials to prevent corruption.
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Students, Chicago Scientists Turn Wrigley Field Into Data Lab
Researchers and students worked together to turn the city’s Wrigley Field ballpark into a sensor node installation.
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Taking Breaks Boosts Team Performance
New research has found that taking regular breaks can improve team performance.
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Researchers Develop a Better Method to Compare Gene Expression in Single Cells
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help identify biomarkers that differentiate between cell populations at the single-cell level.
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Cybersecurity Goes to Summer Camp
University of Virginia researchers are training educators on how to teach cybersecurity to adolescents through a summer camp program.
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Inventing the Future in Chinese Labs: How Does China Do Science Today?
Genetic engineering, the search for dark matter, quantum computing and communications, artificial intelligence, brain science—the list of potentially disruptive...
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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes
For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of the...
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Wi-Fi Security Is Starting to Get its Biggest pgrade in Over a Decade
The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying products that support WPA3, a major security advance over the WPA2 protocol that has been in use since 2004.
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IBM Pits Computer Against Human Debaters
In its first public demonstration, IBM tested its Project Debater computer system against two human debaters.
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