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Microsoft Quantum Algorithm Boosts Medical Imaging
Microsoft and Case Western Reserve University researchers have enhanced the speed and quality of medical imaging with an algorithm designed to work on a future...
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Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant
Researchers have developed tiny three-dimensionally (3D)-printed robots that move by harnessing vibrations.
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Software Vulnerable in New Election Systems
The majority of the approximately 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program voting machines...
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Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate for Quantum Information Processing - with Qudits
Purdue niversity researchers used qudits to develop what could be a quantum version of a transistor, known as a gate.
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Drones Could Herd Rhinos From Poaching Hotspots
Researchers in the .K. found that drones and siren sounds were most effective in getting endangered southern white rhinos to leave poaching hotspots in national...
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Schools Wrestle With Privacy of Digital Data Collected on Students
Experts are concerned that digital data stored on vendor servers could later harm students who make mistakes on social media, or with widely used classroom apps...
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Wall Street Finds Blockchain Hard to Tame After Early Euphoria
A review of 33 projects involving large companies and interviews with more than a dozen executives show that blockchain technology has yet to deliver on its promise...
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AI Can Edit Photos with Zero Experience
Researchers are using deep internal learning, in which a machine learning algorithm ascertains the internal structure of a single image from scratch, to edit photos...
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Baseball's Robot mpires Are Here. You Might Not Notice the Difference.
The Atlantic League was the first U.S. professional baseball league to use a "robot" umpire, at its recent All-Star Game.
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NASA Chooses MS Researchers' Computer for Trial on Moon
A radiation-hardened computer designed by Montana State University researchers was chosen by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration to be tested...
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Chameleon Theory Could Change Our Thoughts on Gravity
Massive supercomputer simulations of the universe will be used to test whether the Chameleon Theory (f(R)-gravity) could explain the formation of cosmological structures...
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Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93
Computers, he said, were so expensive to use that any idle time was a huge waste. But with time-sharing, computer time was carefully metered and wasted time all...
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Robot ses Machine Learning to Harvest Lettuce
A new vegetable-picking robot uses machine learning to identify and harvest iceberg lettuce.
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Neuromorphic Computing Finds New Life in Machine Learning
Researchers are working to resolve the fact that spiking neurons currently have no way that they can be trained via gradient descent—the basis of conventional machine...
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Before Connecting an IoT Device, Check Out a New NIST Report for Cybersecurity Advice
A new report from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology aims to help Internet of Things users protect themselves, their data, and their networks...
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How to Evaluate Computers that Don't Quite Exist
A team of researchers compared quantum computers developed by IBM, Rigetti Computing, and the University of Maryland.
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Robots Could Take 20 Million Manufacturing Jobs by 2030
A study by Oxford Economics anticipates machines will replace human workers in about 20 million manufacturing jobs across the world over the next decade.
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