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Eye-Tracking Technology Could Help AR
Dartmouth College researchers have developed battery-free eye-tracking glasses that could enhance augmented reality technologies.
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'Reprogrammed' Stem Cells Implanted Into Patient with Parkinson's Disease
Japanese neurosurgeons have implanted 'reprogrammed' stem cells into the brain of a patient with Parkinson's disease for the first time.
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NASA's ARIA Maps California Wildfires from Space
California continues to be plagued by wildfires, including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of the deadliest...
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New Attacks on Graphics Processors Endanger User Privacy
University of California, Riverside scientists have determined how hackers can exploit graphics processing units to expose private data.
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Social Media Companies Grapple with New Forms of Political Misinformation
Social media companies are struggling to contain new forms of political misinformation on their platforms that bubbled up during this year's midterm elections. ...
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Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption
Researchers have found vulnerabilities in some solid-state drives that allow hackers to circumvent encryption and access local data without knowing the password...
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pgraded S Supercomputers Claim Top Two Spots on Top500 List
The US now can claim the top two machines on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, as Sierra, an IBM machine for nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore...
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Rough-and-Ready Quantum Memory May Link Disparate Quantum Systems
I'm a simple person. To me, a computer consists of three parts: data that goes in and out, operations that modify the data, and storage that holds the data.
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To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets'
In 2016, the chip industry's clock ran out.
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Intel CPs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability
Researchers discovered a new vulnerability in Intel processors that can allow attackers to leak encrypted data from the internal process of a central processing...
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Google in China: When 'Don't Be Evil' Met the Great Firewall
If you're planning on moving to China anytime soon, here's a piece of advice: Get yourself a WeChat account.
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials to Advance Computing and Fight Pollution
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
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This Robot Transforms Itself to Navigate an Obstacle Course
Researchers have created robots that can adapt to their environment based on centralized sensory processing, environmental perception, and decision-making software...
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Learn to Fly Sikorsky's New Helicopter in Just 45 Minutes
A specially equipped Sikorsky helicopter can be controlled through a handheld tablet, and learning to pilot it can take as little as 45 minutes.
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ESA's Gravity-Mapper Reveals Relics of Ancient Continents nder Antarctic Ice
It was five years ago this month that ESA's GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure—giving...
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IBM Boasts Single-Atom Two-Bit Memory
This accomplishment will feed research on developing atomic-scale devices for storing digital bits, and the storage of quantum bits in the magnetic spin of atomic...
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Will NASA's Next Mission to Venus Be a Balloon?
After decades of neglect, hellish and cloud-enveloped Venus—sometimes called Earth's evil twin—is a world ready and waiting for renewed exploration.
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Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People by How They Walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them,...
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Waymo Gets Green Light for Robot Cars in California; No Humans Needed
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has granted a permit to Waymo to test fully autonomous cars with no human driver on public roads.
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