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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Cyber Pirates Prowling Ship Controls Threaten Another Big Shock
Global trade is threatened by the ability of cyber pirates to hack technologies that control container ships' steering, propulsion, navigation, and other operations...
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New Transceiver Receives Power, Data Simultaneously
Researchers have developed a 64-element millimeter-wave-band phased-array transceiver that transmits and receives data while receiving power at the same time.
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Can Virtual Reality Help Autistic Children Navigate the Real World?
One company, Floreo, is hoping their tools will lead the way, despite some criticisms from autism self-advocates.
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3D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots
With the technology improving and costs falling, 3D printing could be poised to play a major role in manufacturing.
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Security Flaws in Internet-Connected Hot Tubs Exposed Owners' Personal Data
Vulnerabilities in hot tub manufacturer Jacuzzi's SmartTub Internet interface compromised the data of owners worldwide.
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Chip Makers Refusing to Build Semiconductor Plants in the U.S. Unless Congress Unlocks $52 billion in Funding
The CHIPS Act is intended to shore up America's flagging chip industry as a hedge against China's accelerated development of its own semiconductor capabilities....
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Sweden's Einride to Test Autonomous Trucks on U.S. Roads
Sweden's autonomous-truck startup Einride AB, working in partnership with GE Appliances, will test self-driving freight vehicles on U.S. roadways .
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Robotic Lightning Bugs Take Flight
Fireflies inspired researchers to build flying, light-emitting robots that facilitate motion tracking and communication.
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Self-Driving Big Rigs Are Coming. Is America Ready?
Autonomous trucks that mostly stick to highways could make sense, both technologically and economically, in ways robotaxis have not.
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Quantum Computing Could Solve the World’s Energy Crisis
Quantum computing is the most underrated, most transformational technological breakthrough since the Internet.
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Scientists Emulate Nature in Quantum Leap Towards Future Computers
Scientists have constructed an atomic-scale silicon quantum processor to model the behavior of an organic molecule.
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Huge Step Forward in Quantum Computing Announced: The First-Ever Quantum Circuit
The latest invention follows the team's creation of the first ever quantum transistor in 2012.
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AI-Powered Archaeology Draws Out Hidden Evidence of Fire Use by Early Humans
Researchers used artificial intelligence to uncover evidence that ancient humans used fire at least 800,000 years ago at the Evron Quarry archaeological site in...
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How the Brain Prepares to Think
Researchers used the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Frontera supercomputer to probe the physics of thought activation in the brain.
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California Grants First Permit to Test AVs Using Only Lidar Sensing
Vueron plans to unveil its next generation of Lidar AV platforms within the next few months.
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What Quantum Information, Snowflakes Have in Common, and What We Can Do About It
Researchers have demonstrated the ability to read out signals from a superconducting quantum bit (qubit) using laser light, without destroying it.
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Building a Practical Quantum Computer
Quantum computation has a long road ahead.
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Brain Implants Get Real
Universities, and a growing number of companies, are producing brain-computer interfaces.
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Fabric that Can 'Hear' Your Heartbeat Developed by MIT Scientists
The researchers say the fabric allows wearers to monitor their heart and breathing in a comfortable way over long periods, and could also be used to communicate...
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