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Getting Light-based Internet Right
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Getting Light-based Internet Right

Wireless Internet via light could well be a job for lasers, rather than LEDs.

Alphabet Project Uses Light Beams to Bring Broadband to Remote Regions
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Alphabet Project Uses Light Beams to Bring Broadband to Remote Regions

An Alphabet X innovation lab project has been working on a high-speed wireless optical communications network that uses beams of light instead of cables or radio...

Apple Introduces New Macs With the First Apple Chips
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Apple Introduces New Macs With the First Apple Chips

Apple unveiled three new Mac computers that use processors the company created itself, ending its reliance on Intel.

Researchers Isolate, Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors
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Researchers Isolate, Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors

Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that isolates and decodes behaviors based on signals from the brain.

Hybrid 3D-Printing Bioinks Help Repair Knee Cartilage
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Hybrid 3D-Printing Bioinks Help Repair Knee Cartilage

Researchers engineered two new three-dimensional (3D) printing hybrid bioinks that can be used to print a replacement for damaged knee cartilage.

Computer Model Can Predict How Covid-19 Spreads in Cities
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Computer Model Can Predict How Covid-19 Spreads in Cities

A team of researchers has developed a computer model that accurately predicted Covid-19's spread in 10 major cities earlier this year.

Thin Holographic Video Display for Mobile Phones
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Thin Holographic Video Display for Mobile Phones

At South Korea's Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, researchers invented a method for creating a thin holographic video display for mobile phones.

AI Shows Potential to Gauge Voter Sentiment
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AI Shows Potential to Gauge Voter Sentiment

Some technology experts believe using artificial intelligence to gauge voter sentiment could help to better understand the electorate.

Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography
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Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography

A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work...

Tunisian Startup 3D-Prints Solar-Powered Bionic Hands
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Tunisian Startup 3D-Prints Solar-Powered Bionic Hands

Tunisian startup Cure Bionics has developed a three-dimensionally-printed solar-powered bionic hand, to help amputees and other disabled people throughout Africa...

Flexible, More Reliable Sensor Developed
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Flexible, More Reliable Sensor Developed

A new sensor material has high sensitivity but low hysteresis, paving the way for more accurate wearable health technology and robotic sensing.

Retailers Use AI to Improve Online Recommendations for Shoppers
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Retailers Use AI to Improve Online Recommendations for Shoppers

Online retailers have taken steps during the pandemic to improve their search and recommendation engines by building predictive models with high levels of accuracy...

Spoofing the Spoofers
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Spoofing the Spoofers

Security deception software gets an upgrade.

AI News Bias Tool Created by USC Computer Scientists
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AI News Bias Tool Created by USC Computer Scientists

University of Southern California computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool to automatically detect bias in news.

Robots Now Can Understand What You Are Saying to Follow Commands
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Robots Now Can Understand What You Are Saying to Follow Commands

University of Michigan researchers have developed a model that simplifies robots' ability to follow commands by allowing them to understand what people are saying...

Japanese Scientists Create Mind Control Tech for Robot
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Japanese Scientists Create Mind Control Tech for Robot

Japanese scientists have engineered a prototype device that allows anyone to control a miniature toy Gundam robot with thought.

Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality
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Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality

Silicon Valley companies are scooping up Hollywood digital visual-effects artists and technology to enhance their augmented and virtual reality products with lifelike...

NHS Signs Up for Tim Berners-Lee Pilot to Reinvent Web
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NHS Signs Up for Tim Berners-Lee Pilot to Reinvent Web

The U.K.'s National Health Service is among more than a dozen partners that have signed up for a pilot program of Tim Berners-Lee's new company to promote a new...

AI Model Detects Asymptomatic Covid-19 Infections Through Cellphone-Recorded Coughs
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AI Model Detects Asymptomatic Covid-19 Infections Through Cellphone-Recorded Coughs

A new artificial intelligence model between asymptomatic people infected with Covid-19 and healthy individuals via forced-cough recordings.

Intel's Success Came With Making Its Own Chips. Until Now.
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Intel's Success Came With Making Its Own Chips. Until Now.

The Silicon Valley pioneer long held it had to build its flagship chips in its own factories; then it hit the wall and is considering outsourcing—a milestone in...
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