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Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
Researchers are developing cooperative swarms of tiny robots called smarticles that can collectively perform complex behaviors.
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2 Years After FBI vs. Apple, Encryption Debate Remains
It's been two years since the FBI and Apple got into a giant fight over encryption following the San Bernardino shooting, when the government had the shooter's...
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#EpicDuckChallenge Shows We Can Count on Drones
Researchers in Australia have shown that monitoring wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional counting.
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Quantum Computers 'One Step Closer'
Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the development of a programmable quantum processor made with silicon.
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These Perfectly Imperfect Diamonds Are Built for Quantum Physics
In the mid-2000S, diamonds were the hot new thing in physics. It wasn't because of their size, color, or sparkle, though.
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Can a Cockroach Teach a Robot How to Scurry Across Rugged Terrain?
Researchers aim to build robots with cockroach-inspired behavior.
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A Phone that Says 'No' to Little Kid Fingers
A new algorithm can identify who is swiping a smartphone screen, which could lead to child-proof devices.
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Energy-Efficient Encryption for the Internet of Things
A new chip performs public-key encryption while consuming only 1/400 as much power as software execution of the same protocols would.
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Modeling ncertainty Helps MIT's Drone Zip Around Obstacles
It's not too hard to make a drone that can fly very fast, and it's not too hard to make a drone that can avoid obstacles.
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Edging Its Way Into Our Lives
In Phoenix, Ariz., cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are barking commands at tiny machines, with the machines responding. On our smartphones...
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New Study Finds Sea Level Rise Accelerating
The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and...
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niversities Rush to Roll Out Computer Science Ethics Courses
U.S. universities are starting to offer ethics courses relating to computer science.
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Technological Breakthrough for Monitoring and Predicting Landslides
AccuMM is a new automated solution for the long-term monitoring of landslides.
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Swirly Skyrmions Could Be the Future of Data Storage
Researchers are moving toward commercializing skyrmion-based magnetic data storage by electrically detecting for the first time a single skyrmion at room temperature...
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TPUs Go Public on Google Cloud
Google has announced a beta program to make its in-house Tensor Processing Units available to cloud customers.
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Which Programming Language Is Best for Big Data?
Python is currently the most popular language in the data science exploration and development stage.
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After More Than a Year, Trump Still Doesn't Have a Science Adviser
More than a year after taking office, President Trump has yet to appoint a science adviser—longer than any other president since World War II, when Franklin D....
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Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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