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How to Find a Needle in a Haystack
AI pattern recognition algorithms speed up the search.
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National Lab Works to Cap, Reduce Carbon
Argonne National Laboratory will use supercomputers to help companies advance clean energy technologies with ultra-fidelity simulations and data analysis.
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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Earbuds to Monitor Brain, Body
These earbuds listen to you, to determine if your brain and/or body are working at peak efficiency.
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Optical Vectors Beam Multi-Bits
The technique works by modulating the vector-quality factor, instead of the amplitude of a laser.
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Automated Evolution Tackles Tough Tasks
Reinforcement learning groups unlabeled data into sets of likes, with the goal of maximizing the cumulative rewards it receives from a human-wrought evaluation...
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Keeping Hackers Off the Electrical Grid
Protecting electrical power delivery networks from incursions.
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Spyware Lurks in Android Smartphones
Google's decision to allow its operating system to install third-party apps makes Android smartphones targets for spyware.
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Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%
Researchers at the Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology are chasing quantum efficiency.
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MXenes Shield EMI, More
Feather-light yet providing near-total shielding capability, MXenes effectively conduct electricity, tune frequencies, and enhance the integrity of communications...
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The Holy Grail of Electric Vehicles: Solid-State Batteries
Manufacturers look to make batteries safer and help them last longer by replacing liquid cores with solid ones.
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Bluetooth Security Challenged
Researchers identify a security loophole in the wireless standard.
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Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries
Increasingly, sensors and other Internet of Things devices will be powered by ambient energies.
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Am I Getting Sick?
The future of over-the-counter at-home medical tests is trending toward multiple-malady detection.
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Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.
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Quantum Datacenter Intranet Advances
While these breakthroughs must be considered proofs of concept, they demonstrate the pieces of future quantum datacenters are coming together, says independent...
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Confidential Computing Conquers Hacks
Protecting data while it is in use, rather than at rest or in flight.
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