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A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines
Researchers have developed a method that could make it possible to produce some of the narrowest microchip wires ever.
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Stanford Researchers Adapt a Diy Robotics Kit to Give STEM Students Tools to Automate Biology Experiments
Researchers have modified a commercially available do-it-yourself kit for building and programming robots capable of transferring exact amounts of fluids between...
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
An out-of-the-box solution to infrastructure is drawing increasing attention.
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This Paralyzed Man Is sing a Neuroprosthetic to Move His Arm For the First Time in Years
William Kochevar of Cleveland can slowly move his right arm and hand. No big deal—except that the 56-year-old had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a...
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5 Burning Questions With New Ietf Chair and Cisco Fellow Alissa Cooper
New Internet Engineering Task Force chair and Cisco Fellow Alissa Cooper lauds the organization as "a very special place because of the standards work it has done...
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Could Ms. Pac-Man Train the Next Generation of Military Drones?
Thirty-five years ago, while Martin Amis was writing "Money," one of the novels that defined the 1980s, he admitted to a distracting dalliance with another contemporary...
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Who Owns Your Face?
It takes a feast of facial imagery to teach a machine how to recognize an individual person.
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A Novel Hybrid av That May Change the Way People Operate Drones
U-Lion is a novel hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle that can take off and land vertically in the manner of a helicopter, yet cruise horizontally like an airplane. ...
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I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into
Chia-Chiunn Ho was eating lunch inside Facebook headquarters, at the Full Circle Cafe, when he saw the notice on his phone: Larry Zitnick, one of the leading figures...
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Nasa Tests Observing Capability on Hawaii's Coral Reefs
NASA pulled off a scientific double play in Hawaii this winter, using the same instruments and aircraft to study both volcanoes and coral reefs.
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs
Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?
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Toward Printable, Sensor-Laden 'skin' For Robots
Researchers believe three-dimensional printing of flexible electronics integrating sensors and processing circuitry is key to bulk manufacturing of a robot "skin...
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Google's AI Explosion in One Chart
Nature. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever
On a velvety March evening in Mandeville Canyon, high above the rest of Los Angeles, Norman Lear's living room was jammed with powerful people eager to learn the...
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Scientists Hack a Human Cell and Reprogram It Like a Computer
Cells are basically tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly.
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Virtual Lemonade Sends Color and Taste to a Glass of Water
Researchers say they have developed a system that can digitally transmit the color and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water.
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...
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nexpected, Star-Spangled Find May Lead to Advanced Electronics
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say they have developed a material that can transform from an atomically thin, two-dimensional sheet into an array...
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Quadruped Robot Exhibits Spontaneous Changes in Step with Speed
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have successfully demonstrated that a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps between energy-efficient patterns...
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