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All the Light There Is to See? 4 x 10⁸⁴ Photons
In one of those exercises that you think should be impossible or perhaps a punishment for some infraction, a team of astronomers has now measured the total amount...
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The Race Is On to Protect Data From the Next Leap in Computers. And China Has the Lead.
The world's leading technology companies, from Google to Alibaba in China, are racing to build the first quantum computer, a machine that would be far more powerful...
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Smart Headlights Inch Closer to American Roads
Adaptive driving beam headlights are not currently permitted in the U.S., but that could soon change.
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As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans
In response to the diminishing supply of immigrant labor, the U.S. agriculture sector is increasingly turning to robots that can do the work traditionally done...
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How Will We Outsmart AI Liars?
The advancement of machine learning via neural networks is stoking concerns of artificial intelligence being used for mass manipulation and misinformation.
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NASA’s Mars InSight Mission Lands on Red Planet's Surface
The InSight lander, NASA's latest foray to the red planet, has landed.
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How Cheap Labor Drives China's A.I. Ambitions
Some of the most critical work in advancing China's technology goals takes place in a former cement factory in the middle of the country's heartland, far from the...
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What Comes After the Roomba?
It has been 16 years since the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner was introduced by iRobot.
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A Goblin World That Points Toward Hidden Planet Nine in the Solar System
Among some astronomers, there is a growing suspicion that our solar system's distant reaches conceal a large, ninth planet that we have not yet seen. New findings...
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The Crisis of Election Security
As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them?
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Hayabusa2 Prepares to Drop Rovers on Asteroid Ryugu
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is exploring Ryugu, an asteroid thought to contain water ice and other materials from the early solar system.
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Silicon Valley Takes a (Careful) Step Toward Autonomous Flying
Several Silicon Valley startups are developing technology that can be applied to small helicopters and other passenger aircraft to allow for autonomous flight. ...
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Takes First Picture of Distant Rock It Will Visit
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft still has 100 million miles to go, but it has taken its first snapshot of the space rock that will be its date for New Year's Day...
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Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers
With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal...
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How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can
A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy.
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Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can't Serve
The mind-reading headsets won't read minds.
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Don't Squish the Jellyfish. Capture It With a Folding Robotic Claw.
Researchers have developed a rotary actuated dodecahedron sampler, a device for studying soft sea creatures such as jellyfish or squid in their natural habitats...
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Looking Through the Eyes of China's Surveillance State
They perch on poles and glare from streetlamps. Some hang barely visible in the ceiling of the subway, and others seem to stretch out on braced necks and peer into...
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How Rare Earths (What?) Could Be Crucial in a .S.-China Trade War
Amanda Lacaze grabbed her iPhone and rattled off the names of the special minerals needed to make it.
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