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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Move Over Candy Bars, New York Vending Machine Now Sells NFT Art
The first in-person non-fungible token vending machine has been installed in New York City by digital art collecting platform Neon.
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Robot Photographer Has Eye for Aesthetics
Cornell University researchers have developed a robotic photography system that can automatically rove an indoor space and shoot aesthetically appealing photos....
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Fingertip Sensitivity for Robots
A thumb-shaped sensor with a camera inside uses computer vision and a deep neural network to infer haptic contact information.
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Here Comes the Full Amazonification of Whole Foods
A newly revamped store in Washington shows how thoroughly Amazon has woven itself into the grocery shopping experience.
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Russia's War in Ukraine Could Spur Another Global Chip Shortage
Ukraine is home to half of the world's neon gas, which is critical for manufacturing semiconductor chips.
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Pioneering Simulations Focus on HIV-1 Virus
Researchers used supercomputers to generate the first biologically authentic computer simulations of the HIV-1 virus liposome and genome capsid.
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Toyota Halts Japan Production As Supplier Probes Possible Cyberattack
Toyota-owned truck manufacturer Hino Motors said two of its plants were affected, while Daihatsu, a Toyota affiliate that makes small cars, reportedly also stopped...
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New Chip Can Prevent Hackers From Extracting Hidden Information From Smart Devices
Engineers build a lower-energy chip that can prevent hackers from extracting hidden information from a smart device.
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Perovskite Artificial Retina Can Read Handwritten Numbers
Researchers at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have constructed an artificial retina from perovskite materials.
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Quantum Computing Arrays Made of Two Types of Atom
Two research teams have created arrays containing two different neutral atoms, a promising platform for quantum computing.
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The U.S. Is Weaponizing Semiconductors to Try to Rein In Russia
The components may play a pivotal role in upcoming efforts to sanction the invading country, but it is unclear if those efforts will actually work.
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Toward a Stronger Defense of Personal Data
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed an integrated circuit chip that can thwart power side-channel attacks using less energy than...
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Robot Helps Dairy Workers Make Havarti, Danbo
A cheese robot created by Klavs Martin Sørensen at Denmark's University of Copenhagen is employed at Danish dairy company Arla to help with quality control.
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Is Our Universe a Holographic Projection? Scientists Use Black Holes, Quantum Computing to Find Out
What's inside a black hole? Quantum computers and deep learning may finally reveal clues.
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Meet Twist: MIT's Quantum Programming Language
Keeping tabs on data entanglement keeps reins on buggy quantum code.
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Robot Fry Cook Gets Job at 100 White Castle Locations
Miso Robotics' Flippy 2 robot fry cook is being deployed in 100 White Castle fast food restaurants.
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Accelerating AI
Specialized hardware to boost the speed of machine learning also saves energy.
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IonQ Teams with U.S. Department of Energy
IonQ and DoE are trying to create a stable, domestic pipeline for sourcing the barium qubits used in quantum processors built by IonQ.
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Is China's Lithium Quest Fuelled by Business or Politics?
South America contains more than half of the world's reserves of the critical metal that is used in batteries. China is looking for a bigger piece of the pie.
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