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Stumble-Proof Robot Adapts to Challenging Terrain in Real Time
A new robotic locomotion model capable of real-time terrain adaptation has been developed by a multi-institutional research team.
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ECB Starts Work on Digital Version of the Euro
The European Central Bank has launched an initiative to produce a digital euro currency.
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Chatbot Can Explain Apps, Show How They Access Hardware or Data
Researchers have developed a chatbot that can help designers and developers create new apps, and explain apps to end-users.
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Chinese Phone Games Now Require Facial Scans to Play at Night
Chinese video game publisher Tencent has added a facial recognition system to more than 60 of its China-specific smartphone games.
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Autonomous Drone Swarm Can Localize Gas Leaks
Scientists have engineered a swarm of tiny drones capable of autonomously detecting and localizing gas sources in cramped indoor settings.
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Facebook Sees Slight Decline in Female Worker Representation
Company says the gender gap in technical roles is especially challenging.
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Google Demonstrates Vital Step towards Large-scale Quantum Computers
Said Peter Knight at Imperial College London, "Without this advance, you will still have uncertainty about whether the roadmap towards fault tolerance was feasible...
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Concern Trolls and Power Grabs: Inside Big Tech’s Angry, Geeky, Often Petty War for your Privacy
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium, where the world's top engineers battle over the future of your data.
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Stanford Researcher's Cryptography Can Preserve Genetic Privacy in Criminal DNA Profiling
Researchers have devised cryptography that permits searching for DNA matches in criminal cases while protecting the suspect's genetic privacy.
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At a Summer Camp, Juice Boxes and Bitcoin Mining
The Crypto Kids Camp hosted five days of activities in Los Angeles to familiarize 26 children ages five to 17 with money and cryptocurrency.
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Resetting Your IoT Device Before Reselling It Isn't Enough, Researchers Find
A new study suggests Amazon's recommendation that users factory reset their Internet of Things devices to erase personal information before reselling them may not...
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Cerebras' New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 Trillion Transistors
Shift to 7-nanometer process boosts the second-generation chip's transistor count to a mind-boggling 2.6 trillion.
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For the First Time, Scientists Detect a Moving Photon Multiple Times Without Destroying It
A boon for all things quantum.
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What's Worse Than a Chip Shortage? Buying Fake Ones
Global semiconductor shortage attracts fraudsters, counterfeits; 'Of course, a bunch of them didn't work,' a buyer says
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Why You Should Care About Your Right to Repair Gadgets
New legislation could simplify tech maintenance and make buying a new smartphone or computer the last resort.
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Inside Facebook's Data Wars
Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources...
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Tapping Into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak
In a once unimagined accomplishment, electrodes implanted in the man's brain transmit signals to a computer that displays his words.
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France Fines Google €500 Million Over Publication Rights
France's Autorité de la Concurrence ordered Google to present a remuneration offer to news publishers and agencies for the use of their copyrighted content.
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