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Robot Finds Lost Items
A robotic arm can track down lost items using a camera and radio frequency antenna attached to its gripper.
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Intel's Neuromorphic Chip Gets Major Upgrade
Loihi 2 packs 1 million neurons in a chip half the size of its predecessor.
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Zuckerberg Hits Back at Facebook Whistleblower Claims
Frances Haugen's testimony that social networking company puts profit before people just not true."
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Facebook Whistle-Blower Urges Lawmakers to Regulate the Company
Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.
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Chip Shortages Likely To Linger Through 2022
Building capacity for new chips is a lengthy process.
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Facebook Explains What Caused Its Widespread Outage
The social network's services, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, were offline for about six hours on Monday.
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Alphabet's Waymo, GM's Cruise Get California DMV Approval to Run Commercial Autonomous Car Services
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has granted General Motors' Cruise and Alphabet's Waymo autonomous vehicle deployment permits.
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Trust Still at Heart of NHS COVID App Reluctance
A survey of more than 1,000 U.K. residents showed high compliance among the half of participants who had downloaded the National Health Service App.
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FDA Authorizes AI Software Designed to Help Spot Prostate Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week authorized the use of the first artificial intelligence tool designed to help diagnose prostate cancer.
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Google Pledges $1 Million to Secure Open Source Software
Google's Open Source Security Team is starting with a $1-million investment, and plans to expand the program's scope based on community feedback.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Protecting Today from Tomorrow
Crafting more difficult algorithms to protect secrets so they are resilient to future quantum computers is creating, in effect, post-quantum cryptography.
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Exoskeleton Research Demonstrates Importance of Training
Stanford University scientists found training is critical for reaping the benefits of exoskeleton use.
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Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Has Searched A Name, Address, Telephone Number
The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows.
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Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
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Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook
When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked...
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Robots Take Over Italy's Vineyards as Wineries Struggle with COVID-19 Worker Shortages
Vintners are turning to automation amid pandemic-driven labor shortages.
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X-Ray Technology Reveals Marie Antoinette's Censored Secret Correspondence
Technology has retrieved secret correspondence from French queen Marie-Antoinette to Swedish count Axel von Fersen, that a censor blotted out with dark ink.
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Widely Used Bitcoin ATMs Have Major Security Flaws
Security researchers at crypto exchange Kraken warn that many bitcoin ATMs contain serious vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit.
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Ocean Drone Captures Video From Inside Hurricane
An uncrewed surface vehicle built by California-based company Saildrone shot video from inside a hurricane.
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