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Are Cat Qubits the Key to Reliable Quantum Computing in the Modern Era?
Quantum computers are prone to errors due to the sensitivity of qubits to environmental noise. Can cat qubits help build fault-tolerant quantum computers?
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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook
Meta's goal is to get more people to use more of its apps and to monetize those people to the greatest extent possible.
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Universities Train Engineers for the Quantum Future
Colleges are starting the process of educating future engineers in topics such as how quantum computing hardware components work and how to write quantum computing...
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How Quantum Computing Can Benefit Drug Discovery
Quantum computing aims to reduce cost and time.
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Centimeter-Scale Quadruped Leverages Curved-Crease Origami
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a centimeter-scale quadruped robot inspired by origami.
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Researchers Develop Solid-State Thermal Transistor for Better Heat Management
A solid-state thermal transistor enables precision control of heat movement in semiconductor devices using the on-off switching of an electric field.
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Magnetic Sensors Pinpoint GPU Cryptojacking Attacks
Identifying incursions with magnetic sensors.
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Digital Twins May Enable Personalized Health Treatment
Combining data about the human body with patients’ personal data to create digital twins of their organs could lead to personalized treatments and help avoid medical...
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Robot Mimics a 450-Million-Year-Old Extinct Marine Organism
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new approach to robotics that uses insights from extinct organisms to create soft robots.
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Using Language to Give Robots a Better Grasp of Open-Ended World
The Feature Fields for Robotic Manipulation method helps robots identify nearby objects by forming three-dimensional scenes from two-dimensional images and vision...
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Earbuds to Monitor Brain, Body
These earbuds listen to you, to determine if your brain and/or body are working at peak efficiency.
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Datacenter Waste Energy to Heat Homes in 'U.K.-First' Scheme
The London scheme is the U.K.'s first large-scale project to use datacenter waste heat to power homes.
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5G-Powered Robots Clean Singapore's Rivers
Singapore-based Weston Robot is supplying uncrewed surface vessels to clean Singapore's rivers by collecting garbage and monitoring water quality.
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Doctors Wrestle with AI in Patient Care
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of artificial intelligence tools has raised doubts among doctors about their ability to improve patient care.
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AIrtist: Co-creativity and Computer-Human Collaboration in the Arts
Far from being threatened by artificial intelligence, many creative practitioners are already embracing it—with some novel and unexpected results.
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As a Teen, She Loved Video Games. Now She's Using A.I. to Try to Quash Malaria
In Senegal, Rokhaya Diagne is using artificial intelligence to help the world eradicate malaria by 2030.
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As Baby Boomers Retire, German Businesses Turn to Robots
As Germany's baby boomers retire, exacerbating the country's labor shortage, many companies are filling job openings with robots.
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Keeping Secrets in a Quantum World
Cryptographers are working on data-encryption schemes strong enough to withstand attacks from future quantum computers.
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Researchers Simplify Switching for Quantum Electronics
Exploiting a quantum effect electrically brings it closer to practical use.
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