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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions
By thinking of atoms as letters and molecules as words, artificial intelligence software from IBM is now employing the same methods computers use to translate languages...
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The ltimate Defense Against Hackers May Be Just a Few Atoms Thick
A new class of unclonable cybersecurity primitives has been made from a low-cost nanomaterial with the highest possible level of structural randomness.
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Helping Hands Guide Robots as They Learn
A new program guides robots toward the most helpful ways to collaborate on tasks, with the goal of simplifying the training of robots to work efficiently with humans...
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Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome
Google has released an artificial intelligence tool that uses gene sequencing data to build a more accurate genomic model.
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The Quantum Threat to Cryptocurrencies
Quantum computing could fundamentally break cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and throw markets into turmoil.
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Future Wars May Depend as Much on Algorithms as on Ammunition, Report Says.
The Pentagon is increasingly focused on the notion that the might of U.S. forces will be measured as much by the advancement of their algorithms as by the ammunition...
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Global Mosquito-Sensing Network Being Built sing Smartphones
MozzWear is a low-cost smartphone sensor system that can identify and monitor mosquito populations.
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Squeezing Light Into a Tiny Channel Brings Optical Computing a Step Closer
Researchers have paved the way for computers based on light rather than electronics.
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New Research Creates a Computer Chip That Emulates Human Cognition
Researchers have developed a chip that contains about 5.4 billion transistors and 1 million "neurons" that communicate via 256 million "synapses."
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Voyager 1 Fires p Thrusters After 37 Years
If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1...
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Supercomputing Poised For a Massive Speed Boost
At the end of July, workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee began filling up a cavernous room with the makings of a computational behemoth: row...
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ltrasound Could Offer Noninvasive Treatment For Parkinson's and Depression
A macaque monkey sat in front of a computer. A yellow square—the target—appeared in the periphery on the left side of the screen. After a few seconds delay, a second...
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Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and The australian outback
Even in early winter, the sun is harsh in Western Australia's Murchison shire.
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Dogs Get the Hollywood Treatment to Make Animal Animations More Realistic
Researchers are developing a new technique that will use human movements to drive a four-legged animated animal character.
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Two New Simulators Tease Future of Quantum Computing
A universal quantum computer capable of outperforming today's classical computers in solving many different problems remains the biggest future prize for many engineers...
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4 Strange New Ways to Compute
With Moore's Law slowing, engineers have been taking a cold hard look at what will keep computing going when it's gone.
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The Genesis of Kuri, the Friendly Home Robot
Over the course of thousands of years, dogs have evolved alongside humans to be awesome.
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Scientists Release a How-To For Building a Smartphone Microscope
Researchers have released an open source dataset offering instructions to anyone interested in building their own smartphone microscope.
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