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AN Helping Build Cheaper, Greener Electricity Networks
New smart electricity technology recently passed a major test in Australia by proving it can help manage renewable energy and battery storage for households and...
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Fight for Tech Supremacy Intensifies as .S. Takes Aim at Chinese Companies
The United States undercut China's technology ambitions on Tuesday, advancing a new rule that would limit the ability of Chinese telecommunications companies to...
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Google's New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn't Need AI
Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...
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sing an Algorithm to Reduce Energy Bills—Rain or Shine
Researchers have developed a residential energy scheduling algorithm by training three action dependent heuristic dynamic programming networks.
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Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can't Be Found
When Zbynek Frolik needed new employees to handle surging orders at his cavernous factories in central Bohemia, he fanned advertisements across the Czech Republic...
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Europe's New Online Privacy Rules Could Protect U.S. Users Too
The European Union is preparing to implement sweeping privacy rules next month, but these new protections of individuals' information may set a new standard around...
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AI Chips May Give You a Real Reason to Upgrade Your Smartphone
You've likely seen artificial intelligence technology spread into apps, devices and services, doing things like recognizing your friends' faces in photos and endowing...
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Lawmakers Question FBI Director on Encryption
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing FBI Director Christopher Wray on the bureau's efforts to unlock encrypted devices after a critical watchdog report. ...
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Trade War or Not, China Is Closing the Gap on .S. in Technology IP Race
China's rising investment in research and expansion of its higher education system mean that it is fast closing the gap with the United States in intellectual property...
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sing Open Source Designs to Create More Specialized Chips
The open source movement changed how companies build software. Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo employees pitched in during the early days of the data-crunching software...
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See Straight Through Walls by Augmenting Your Eyeballs With Drones
Researchers are studying how to use augmented reality to change drones into remote cameras that an untrained user can easily control.
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Russia to Ban Telegram Messenger Over Encryption Dispute
A Russian court on Friday ordered that access to the Telegram messenger service be blocked in Russia, heralding possible communication disruption for millions of...
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Emoji Skin Tones Promote Diversity on Twitter
Emoji characters with adapted skin tones are mostly used in a positive manner and are rarely abused, according to a recent study of Twitter posts.
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Is This the Sound of Black Holes Colliding?
Take a deep breath, put on your headphones and watch the video above. You're about to hear something truly astronomical: the sound of two black holes smashing together...
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Self-Powered Image Sensor Could Watch You Forever
Solar cells convert light to electricity. Image sensors also convert light to electricity. If you could do them both at the same time in the same chip, you'd have...
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NIST Chip Hints at Quantum Sensors of the Future
Researchers at NIST have created a new chip on which laser light interacts with a tiny cloud of atoms to act as a miniature toolkit for measuring important quantities...
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Most Links to Popular Sites on Twitter Come From Bots
Sixty-six percent of links to popular sites shared on Twitter stem from automated accounts, including legitimate accounts from organizations that schedule tweets...
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Mars Express v2.0
Every so often, your smartphone or tablet receives new software to improve its functionality and extend its life. Now, ESA's Mars Express is getting a fresh install...
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NASA's Juno Mission Provides Infrared Tour of Jupiter's North Pole
Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar...
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