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Going Serverless
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...
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Designing Customizable Self-Folding Swarm Robots
Researchers are developing robotic swarms that can be rapidly customized, self-assembled, and self-deployed without human intervention.
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China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online
China has the quantum technology to perfectly encrypt useful signals over distances far vaster than anyone has ever accomplished, spanning Europe and Asia, according...
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Tractor Beam Breakthrough Could Lead to Levitating Humans
Tractor beams have made the jump from science fiction to reality in recent years, but only for levitating very small objects.
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Professor Designs Algorithms to Make Robots Better Collaborators
Researchers are developing algorithms that enable groups of robots to make good decisions despite inherent communication delays in information sharing.
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New Blueprint For Converging Hpc, Big Data
A group of high-performance computing experts has released a report as a blueprint for aligning computational infrastructures.
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Computer Codes Make Sweet Music For Self-Playing Piano
Researchers used unique software to create an interactive self-playing piano performance.
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Security Fears Spark Crackdown on Chinese Tech
The federal government is taking steps to reduce the presence of some Chinese technology firms in American markets.
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Thank the Planet's Shifty Magnetic Poles For Runway Renaming
For decades, pilots heading into or out of Wichita Eisenhower National Airport in southeast Kansas have had three runways to choose from: 1L/19R, 1R/19L, and 14...
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AI 'scientist' Finds That Toothpaste Ingredient May Help Fight Drug-Resistant Malaria
Researchers discovered that a toothpaste ingredient could be used as a drug against strains of malaria resistant to existing drugs.
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Programmable Droplets
New hardware applies electric fields to manipulate droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them to test thousands of reactions in...
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Himawari-8 Data Assimilated Simulation Enables 10-Minute pdates of Rain and Flood Predictions
Researchers in Japan used the K supercomputer to show incorporating satellite data at frequent intervals into weather prediction models can improve weather predictions...
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Can Software Predict Crime? Maybe So, but No Better Than a Human
Can you predict a crime?
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A New Way to Track Down Bugs Could Help Save Iot
On a clear day this summer, security researcher Ang Cui boarded a boat headed to a government biosafety facility off the northeastern tip of Long Island.
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Artificial Intelligence Will Be a Human Jobs Creator
In 2013, James "Jimi" Crawford founded a company called Orbital Insight, barely noticed at the time amid the Silicon Valley froth.
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Nasa Just Proved It Can Navigate Space Using Pulsars. Where to Now?
Half a century ago, astronomers observed their first pulsar: a dead, distant, ludicrously dense star that emitted pulses of radiation with remarkable regularity...
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How a 22-Year-Old Discovered the Worst Chip Flaws in History
In 2013, a teenager named Jann Horn attended a reception in Berlin hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He and 64 other young Germans had done well in a government...
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Smart Buildings That Can Manage Our Electricity Needs
Researchers have developed a system to collect data on consumers' energy usage and comfort within buildings.
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