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Old-Fashioned Silicon Might Be the Key to Building biquitous Quantum Computers
Scientists are investigating silicon as a key ingredient in the creation of scalable quantum computers.
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Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
Researchers are developing cooperative swarms of tiny robots called smarticles that can collectively perform complex behaviors.
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2 Years After FBI vs. Apple, Encryption Debate Remains
It's been two years since the FBI and Apple got into a giant fight over encryption following the San Bernardino shooting, when the government had the shooter's...
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#EpicDuckChallenge Shows We Can Count on Drones
Researchers in Australia have shown that monitoring wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional counting.
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Quantum Computers 'One Step Closer'
Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the development of a programmable quantum processor made with silicon.
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These Perfectly Imperfect Diamonds Are Built for Quantum Physics
In the mid-2000S, diamonds were the hot new thing in physics. It wasn't because of their size, color, or sparkle, though.
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Can a Cockroach Teach a Robot How to Scurry Across Rugged Terrain?
Researchers aim to build robots with cockroach-inspired behavior.
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Energy-Efficient Encryption for the Internet of Things
A new chip performs public-key encryption while consuming only 1/400 as much power as software execution of the same protocols would.
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Modeling ncertainty Helps MIT's Drone Zip Around Obstacles
It's not too hard to make a drone that can fly very fast, and it's not too hard to make a drone that can avoid obstacles.
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Edging Its Way Into Our Lives
In Phoenix, Ariz., cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are barking commands at tiny machines, with the machines responding. On our smartphones...
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New Study Finds Sea Level Rise Accelerating
The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and...
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Swirly Skyrmions Could Be the Future of Data Storage
Researchers are moving toward commercializing skyrmion-based magnetic data storage by electrically detecting for the first time a single skyrmion at room temperature...
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TPUs Go Public on Google Cloud
Google has announced a beta program to make its in-house Tensor Processing Units available to cloud customers.
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Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots Seek and Destroy Tumors
Researchers say they have successfully programmed tiny robots to destroy tumors by cutting off their blood supply.
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Detecting Hidden Threats
Technology under development at the University of Delaware is aimed at detecting explosive devices from a distance.
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Deluge of Astronomical Data Will Soon Hit South Africa
Data scientists in South Africa are readying themselves for a flood of information that is due to crash over them when the country's biggest radio telescope doubles...
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The Olympics' Never-Ending Struggle to Keep Track of Time
At precisely three minutes and thirty seconds before two o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, April 10, 1896, on a bridge in the Greek town of Marathon, an army...
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Blockchain Explained: It Builds Trust When You Need It Most
These days, we're having a harder and harder time trusting each other.
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The Robots Will See You Now
Researchers used advanced real-time tracking software and robotics to design and test the first closed-loop control system featuring a bioinspired robotic replica...
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