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F-35's Buggy Software Prompts Pentagon to Call in Universities
The Pentagon is consulting with U.S. universities to evaluate software on aerospace company Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet in the hope of correcting the buggy...
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High-Performance Computers Under Siege by Newly Discovered Backdoor
Researchers at Slovak security firm Eset said a newly discovered backdoor allows hackers to remotely execute arbitrary commands on some high-performance computer...
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Mira's Last Journey: Exploring the Dark Universe
Physicists and computer scientists executed a massive cosmological simulation on the Mira supercomputer as that system's final project.
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'Bleep-Bloop-Bleep! Say "Cheese," Human'
Yale University's Marynel Vazquez and colleagues have built a robot photographer called Shutter designed to put humans at ease.
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Robot Delivers the Dough on College Campuses
Delivery robot manufacturer Starship Technologies recently expanded its robot-based food delivery services to two additional campuses.
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Supercomputers Aid Scientists Studying the Smallest Particles in the Universe
A team of scientists used the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit supercomputer to measure quark interactions in hadrons.
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Shenoy Named ACM SIGEnergy Founding Chair
University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor Prashant Shenoy has been named founding chair of the new ACM Special Interest Group on Energy (SIGENERGY)...
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Microsoft Claims Breakthrough in Quantum Computing with Gooseberry Chip and Cryo-computing Core
The company says its new system is a leap ahead from previous technology.
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Computational Tool Reliably Differentiates Between Cancer, Normal Cells From Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a computational tool that can reliably distinguish between cancerous and normal...
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Bio-Inspired Robotics: Learning From Dragonflies
Scientists have decrypted the biomechanical function of the labial mask of dragonfly larvae, leading to a bio-inspired robot modeled after the same operating principle...
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Battle of the Robots Still Favors Japan, Europe--For Now
China continues to be the biggest market for industrial robots, even though the market’s growth had been slowing prior to the pandemic, due to the U.S.-China trade...
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Chess Engine Sacrifices Mastery to Mimic Human Play
A team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence chess engine that is trained to play like, rather than beat, humans.
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ML Method Makes Better Predictions of Material Properties Using Low Quality Data
Nanoengineers have developed a new machine learning method that uses low-quality data to predict material properties with greater accuracy than existing models....
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MeitY Collaborates With Amazon to Set Up India's First Quantum Computing Lab
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to develop a Quantum Computing Applications Lab.
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How Lobsters Can Help Make Stronger 3D-Printed Concrete
Special three-dimensional printing patterns designed by researchers at Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology were inspired by lobster shells.
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Moore's Law: What Comes Next?
Moore's Law challenges point to changes in software.
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The State of Virtual Reality Hardware
Advances in VR hardware could finally take the technology mainstream.
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Jellyfish-Inspired Robot Could Be Used to Explore Coral Reefs, Archaeological Sites
A robot developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Edinburgh and University of Southampton mimics the efficient swimming movements of the moon jellyfish...
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