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As E-Commerce Booms, Robots Pick Up Human Slack
Robots increasingly are filling some of the most common job roles in warehousing and logistics due to the explosion of e-commerce, Covid-19 stay-at-home orders,...
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Yale Quantum Researchers Create Error-Correcting Cat
A new device integrates the “Schrodinger's cat” concept of superposition—a physical system in two states simultaneously—with the ability to correct some of the...
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Amazon’s Cloud Unit to Offer Quantum Computing From 3 Tech Companies
Fidelity Investments was among the companies involved in testing the new service, which will allow businesses to experiment with the super-fast computing.
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A Memristor-based Hopfield Neural Architecture to Solve Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Researchers at Hewlett Packard Labs have developed a new memristor-based annealing system that can solve combinatorial optimization problems rapidly and efficiently...
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Quantum Version of the Ancient Game of Go Could Be Ultimate AI Test
Researchers have created a more complex version of the ancient Chinese board game Go using quantum entanglement.
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Android Phones to Track Quakes; California Gets Alert System
Google said Android phones will begin detecting earthquakes from around the world through their motion-sensing accelerometers.
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Picking Locks with Audio Technology
How eavesdropping smartphones could give thieves a copy of your front door key.
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Quantum Computing Breakthrough as Scientists Find Possible Solution to Technology's Biggest Hurdle
Research by scientists in Australia and Canada has led to a possible solution to controlling "noise" in quantum computers, errors introduced by manipulation of...
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Finding Common Ground
Self-driving vehicles start to understand pedestrians, cyclists.
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Army Advances Learning Capabilities of Drone Swarms
Researchers have developed a reinforcement learning technique to enable swarms of unmanned drones to carry out missions while minimizing performance uncertainty...
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3D Images From Ultrasounds Allow Blind Parents to Feel Their Infant's Face
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore can provide blind parents with three-dimensional models of their baby's face so they can "see" them before they are born,
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Cisco Challenge Winners Use AI, IoT to Tackle Global Problems
Cisco awarded the top prize in its Global Problem Solver Challenge to an Internet of Things-enabled system for transporting dairy products.
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Privacy Problems Are Widespread for Alexa, Google Assistant Voice Apps
Researchers have found that privacy policies for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa often violate baseline requirements.
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Apparently, Size Does Matter
Consumers make better Internet buying decisions when using full-sized PCs.
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'Giant Atoms' Enable Quantum Processing, Communication in One
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have unveiled a quantum computing architecture that performs low-error computations while rapidly sharing quantum...
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The U.S. Has AI Competition All Wrong
Computing power, not data, is the secret to tech dominance.
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Qualcomm Chip Vulnerability Puts Millions of Phones at Risk
The Check Point security firm found 400 code vulnerabilities on Qualcomm's Snapdragon digital signal processor chip, used in more than 40% of Android smartphones...
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Modern Driver-Assistance Technology 'Far From Reliable': AAA Study
A study by the American Automobile Association found that current advanced driver assistance technology does not provide reliable safety benefits.
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Deep Learning Moves Cancer Vaccines Toward Reality
Researchers have designed a deep learning method to help develop personalized cancer vaccines by better understanding the biological mechanisms of interaction between...
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