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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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Circular Reasoning: Spiraling Circuits for More Efficient AI
Researchers stacked resistive random-access memory modules for artificial intelligence applications in a novel three-dimensional spiral.
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Reducing and Eliminating E-Waste
We need to mitigate the environmental impact of disposing of electronics at their end of useful life.
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Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.
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Robots Will Take 50 Million Jobs in the Next Decade. These Are the Skills You'll Need to Stay Employed
A new report finds that automation will take over a significant part of work activities in Europe by 2030.
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DGCA Nod Clears Runway for the Dawn of Drone Age
India's Directorate-General of Civil Aviation is permitting 13 companies to test fly beyond visual line of sigh (BVLOS) drones.
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For a Cold, Heartless Robot, Sally Makes a Decent Salad
A new high-tech vending machine can dispense a salad into a compostable bowl and keep ingredients at constant, food-safe temperatures.
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Five Times More Efficient Data Transfer
Researchers have developed a method to transfer bits across a silicon chip up to five times more efficiently than standard setups.
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U.S. HHS Battles DDoS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services networks were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack just as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.
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Quantum Backbone
An Oak Ridge early-career award recipient plots the infrastructure for a quantum-information highway.
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Next-Generation Cockroach-Inspired Robot Is Small, but Mighty
The researchers say the new robot is one of the smallest and most dexterous robots created to date.
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KingMiner Botnet Brute-Forces MSSQL Databases to Install Cryptocurrency Miner
U.K. cybersecurity firm Sophos is advising MSSQL database owners to fortify their servers against botnet-orchestrated brute-force attacks.
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In Autonomous Russia, Tractor Drives You
Two Russian companies have partnered on an advanced autonomous driving system for agricultural vehicles.
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Robots Armed with UV Light Fight Grape Mildew
A multi-institutional and international collaboration has yielded autonomous robots that use ultraviolet lamps to kill powdery mildew on crops.
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Coronavirus Makes AR's Potential a Reality for Chip Makers
The coronavirus pandemic has spurred the everyday use of augmented reality in semiconductor manufacturing and other industries.
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Billions of Smart Home Devices Open to Attack
A newly discovered vulnerability in the Universal Plug and Play networking protocol could expose billions of smart home devices to cyberattack.
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The Extraordinary Sample-Gathering System of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will launch the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission on July 17.
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Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have designed a 'brain on a chip' composed of tens of thousands of memristors.
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People with Damaged Knees, Hips Could Be Treated with 3D-Printed Artificial Cartilage
University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) scientists three-dimensionally (3D)-printed artificial cartilage.
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Manned Fighter to Face Autonomous Drone Next Year in Movie-Like Showdown
The planned test is part of a project to develop an artificial intelligence-driven drone that could change the face of air combat.
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