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Stretchable Electronics to Top $1 Billion By 2030
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Stretchable Electronics to Top $1 Billion By 2030

A growing variety of stretchable polymers will help integrate electronics into medical implants, consumer products, and more.

Battery-Free Cellphones on the Horizon
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Battery-Free Cellphones on the Horizon

Backscattering could eventually harness sufficient energy to power small devices.

Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking
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Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking

A second-generation academic supercomputer aims to break into the top rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers.

China's Robot Revolution
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China's Robot Revolution

The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing nation.

Protecting the Smart Grid
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Protecting the Smart Grid

Microgrids can provide greater resiliency.

Solid-State Batteries to Support the Growth of Iot
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Solid-State Batteries to Support the Growth of Iot

Compared to lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries don't have the potential to burn or explode, and they can recharge via energy harvesting.

Beyond Moore's Law
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Beyond Moore's Law

Chipmakers are exploring what comes after they reach the predicted limits of integrated circuit density, complexity.

Free Quantum Computers Online!
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Free Quantum Computers Online!

D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.

Locking Out the Hackers
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Locking Out the Hackers

New hardware, services are aimed at identifying malware before it has the chance to execute.

Neuroscience Misses the Meaning
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Neuroscience Misses the Meaning

Examining each transistor in a microprocessor using techniques for analyzing how the human brain works did not yield anticipated understanding.

Fixing the Fake News Problem
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Fixing the Fake News Problem

Unsubstantiated information can spread like wildfire through social media; new tools aim to make it easy to track down sources of misinformation, no matter where...

Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players
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Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players

Developers at Carnegie Mellon University create an artificial intelligence that learns, wins.

Supercomputers to Replace Particle Accelerators?
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Supercomputers to Replace Particle Accelerators?

Moving beyond the need for physical experiments.

Cognitive Computers Work Like the Human Brain
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Cognitive Computers Work Like the Human Brain

Neural networks and cognitive computing software emulate the way humans think.

Paas Enables Greater Customization
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Paas Enables Greater Customization

Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.

Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning
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Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning

Adding "fun" and "chat" aspects to the game enhances memorization and understanding of context.

Smart Lighting Follows People
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Smart Lighting Follows People

A new low-cost technique allows the use of light-emitting diodes to track people’s locations and gestures within a room.

Dna as a Data Storage Medium
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Dna as a Data Storage Medium

Will genetic material supplant other substances for archival data storage?

3d/vr Malady May Have Simple Solution
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3d/vr Malady May Have Simple Solution

A simple low-tech solution appears to compensate for the vergence-accommodation conflict.

Google ­nveils 'artificial Creativity'
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Google ­nveils 'artificial Creativity'

Google's Magenta artificial intelligence is being challenged to produce original music and other art.
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