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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Commercial Quantum Computing Made Possible
Intel is chipping away at quantum computing with its Horse Ridge cryogenic control chip.
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Quantum Photonics Spawns Optical Age
Initial applications could include optical quantum sensors, optical quantum transistors, and optically uncrackable quantum encryption.
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Hacking the Smart Home via the Internet of Things
A group of researchers uncovered implementation flaws in Internet of Things devices.
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Organic Optical Transistor Outperforms Silicon
All-optical logic gates were made possible through the use of organic materials sandwiched between layers of silicon/tantalum dielectrics.
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Addressing Quantum Error Correction
Seeking to prevent premature decoherence of qubits.
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World’s Largest Quantum Computer Doubles Down
D-Wave unveils an upgraded quantum computer featuring more than twice the qubits.
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Embedding NEMS Devices Within CMOS
A new process combines combined metal oxide semiconductors and micro-electro-mechanical systems in a single package.
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Painting On Perovskites at Room Temperature
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors are suited to many electro-optical applications.
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Software-Defined Power Cuts Costs
Hyper-scale datacenters need more efficient control of their electrical use.
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Beyond CMOS Lies Hope
Seeking a successor to complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology.
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Quantum Clouds Leap Ahead
D-Wave offers access to a cloud-based quantum application environment.
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IBM Boasts Single-Atom Two-Bit Memory
This accomplishment will feed research on developing atomic-scale devices for storing digital bits, and the storage of quantum bits in the magnetic spin of atomic...
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Bespoke Additive Manufacturing
Three-dimensional printing tailors item to order, even body parts.
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Not Quite Quantum Computing
Fujitsu says its "Quantum-Inspired" Digital Annealing is capable of tackling combinatorial optimization problems.
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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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The Search for niversal Memory
The search for a universal memory is aimed at ultimately replacing the entire computer memory hierarchy with a single technology.
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Brain-Emulating Chips Get Smarter, Smaller, More Efficient
Neuromorphic chips manage "many cores" by connecting artificial neurons with artificial neurons, mirroring how human brains operate.
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