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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a...
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage for General-Purpose Quantum Computers
Quantum computers promise speedy solutions to some difficult problems, but building large-scale, general-purpose quantum devices is a problem fraught with technical...
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The Brain Behind Google's Artificial Intelligence
In an interview, Jeff Dean, senior fellow of Google's Systems and Infrastructure Group, discusses the company's artificial intelligence agenda.
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Caltech Scientists Improve Computer Graphics With Quantum Mechanics
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have used the mathematics that govern the universe at the quantum level to simulate large-scale motion.
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How Vulnerable to Hacking Is the U.s. Election Cyber Infrastructure?
Adversaries' growing use of cyberweapons to influence target groups in the U.S. is provoking concern that the U.S. electoral process is at risk.
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Blind Athlete Runs Desert Marathon Unassisted Using Smartphone App
IBM researchers have developed an application designed to help visually-impaired runners navigate on their own.
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Vortex Laser Offers Hope For Moore's Law
Researchers have used orbital angular momentum to advance laser technology, a breakthrough that could boost computing power and information transfer rates tenfold...
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Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck's Accelerator and Brakes
When cybersecurity researchers showed in recent years that they could hack a Chevy Impala or a Jeep Cherokee to disable the vehicles' brakes or hijack their steering...
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Five Years Post-Launch, Juno Is at a Turning Point
Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point.
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America's Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets
This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be "rigged." Last month, Russia decided to take an active role in...
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In Memoriam: Seymour Papert 1928-2016
Papert was known for focusing on the impact of new technologies on learning, and on technology use in schools as learning organizations.
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Your Battery Status Is Being Used to Track You Online
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...
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Can Machines Keep S Safe from Cyber-Attack?
Best known for its part in bringing the internet into being, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has more recently brought engineers together to tackle...
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Memories That Last
An experimental method of writing data into next-generation memory chips is more efficient and requires fewer resources than traditional means.
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Portable Device Produces Biopharmaceuticals on Demand
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has funded the development of a portable on-demand biopharmaceutical production system.
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Study: Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It
New research examines how human personality traits and moods can influence information technology errors and decision-making.
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Snapping p Cheap Spy Tools, Nations 'monitoring Everyone'
It was a national scandal. Peru's then-vice president accused two domestic intelligence agents of staking her out.
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Machine Learning Researchers Team p With Chinese Botanists on Flower-Recognition Project
The Smart Flower Recognition System is designed to quickly identify any flower or plant.
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'kudos' Promises to Help Scientists Promote Their Papers to New Audiences
Few people have heard of Michele Tobias's research field—and even fewer study it.
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