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Teslas Running Autopilot Have Been in 273 Crashes in Less Than a Year
Regulators released the first batch of data since mandating that companies such as Tesla report on serious crashes involving their driver-assistance systems.
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Why You May Have a Thinking Digital Twin Within a Decade
Artificial intelligence combined with the Internet of Things allows the digital construction of digital twins that constantly learn from and help improve their...
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Alberta Investing C$23 Million Toward U of C's Quantum City
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has announced that the Canadian province is investing C$23 million (US$17.9 million) in the University of Calgary Quantum City hub....
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FDA Warns DNA Sequencing Machines Could Be Hacked
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that certain Illumina DNA-sequencing machines have a software vulnerability that could jeopardize patient data.
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Nature Publishes Chinese Scientists' Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
The tunable MZM lattice can help overcome environment interference, providing a more reliable, more efficient quantum computing capability.
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MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can't Be Patched
The vulnerability is rooted in pointer authentication codes.
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You Agreed to What? Doctor Check-In Software Harvests Your Health Data
A consent form from Phreesia gives it permission to use your data for marketing.
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Ukrainians Use 3D Technology to Preserve Cultural Artifacts
Civilians in Ukraine are recording three-dimensional models of artifacts in a permanent digital archive as part of Backup Ukraine, a project to save the country's...
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Self-Driving Truck Will Deliver Goods to 34 Sam's Club Locations
The Dallas Morning News A California-based autonomous trucking company will soon make deliveries to 34 Sam's Club locations in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, using autonomous...
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CRISPR-Based Map Ties Every Human Gene to Its Function
A group of researchers have published the first comprehensive functional map of genes expressed in human cells.
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Your Kids' Apps Are Spying on Them
Apple and Google just look the other way. Here's how we stop it.
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How One Paper Blew Up Bitcoin's Claim to Anonymity
All individuals transacting in Bitcoin are within six degrees or fewer of separation from a core group, say researchers.
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Edible QR Code Takes a Shot at Fake Whiskey
Biomedical engineers have developed a quick response (QR) code to confirm whether a whiskey is authentic or counterfeit.
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'E-Nose' Sniffs Out Volatile Organic Compounds
Researchers developed an “electric nose” that can detect mixtures of specific volatile organic compounds through porous metal-organic framework films.
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Google Developers Set Another Record for Calculating Digits of Pi: 100 Trillion
Software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and colleagues at Google Cloud calculated pi—the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter—to 100 trillion digits.
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Financial Firms Seek Edge in Algorithms Inspired by Quantum Computing
Some firms are running algorithms used for quantum computers on advanced machines for risk analysis and portfolio optimization.
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Ministry of Defence Acquires U.K. Government's First Quantum Computer
Orca Computing uses its own patented quantum memory to store and retrieve single photons on demand.
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Photonic Quantum Computer Claims Speedup 'Advantage'
Quantum-powered cloud is 7,800,000,000,000,000x as fast, for some problems, as a supercomputer.
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Apple Debuts Pay-Later Service, iPhone Updates to Developers
Company also debuts buy-now-pay-later service, new apps.
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