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Diamonds May Be Quantum Computing's Best Friend
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new approach to maintaining quantum superposition using synthetic diamonds.
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Graphene Filter Could Make Wireless Data Transmission 10 Times Faster
Swiss researchers have developed a graphene filter for microchips that could lead to wireless transmission rates 10 times as fast as what chips deliver today.
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The Future of Microchips
Intel, IBM, and others stake their claims to the future technology path for semiconductors.
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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it.
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Dear Silicon Valley: The Pentagon Has Sent You a Friend Request
When Defense Secretary Ashton Carter first spoke about the Pentagon's startup in Silicon Valley, the former Harvard physicist said he had great expectations.
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Measurement of Universe's Expansion Rate Creates Cosmological Puzzle
The most precise measurement ever made of the current rate of expansion of the Universe has produced a value that appears incompatible with measurements of radiation...
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A Fleet of Self-Driving Trucks Rumbles Across Europe
A fleet of about 12 self-driving trucks from six manufacturers for the first time completed a trip across parts of Europe this week.
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Kepler Spacecraft in Emergency Mode
During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode (EM). EM is the lowest...
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Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds
Astronomers have made great strides in discovering planets outside of our solar system, termed "exoplanets."
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Hiv Overcomes Crispr Gene-Editing Attack
HIV can defeat efforts to cripple it with CRISPR gene-editing technology, researchers say. And the very act of editing—involving snipping at the virus’s genome—may...
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Autofocusing Contact Lenses? Today's Chip Research Peeks Into Tomorrow's Gadgets
Belgian design organization Imec is expanding into new territory with its latest computer chip technology research projects.
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The Detectives Watching You from Space
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...
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Mysterious Gravitational Tug on Orbiter May Help Find Planet Nine
The hunt is on to find "Planet Nine"—a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its size—that scientists think could be lurking...
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IBM Wants to Implant Fake Brains in Real Brains to Prevent Seizures
Talk about neural networking.
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Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
Take a three year-old to the zoo, and she intuitively knows that the long-necked creature nibbling leaves is the same thing as the giraffe in her picture book.
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w Robot Capable of Helping Patients With Physical Therapy Regimen
The University of Wyoming's Debbie Kretzchmar and her husband James are training a robot called Baxter to function as a coach for patients undergoing physical therapy...
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t Professors Collaborate, Improve Robot Soccer Team
University of Texas researchers are working on applying aspects of the human cerebellum, the part of the brain that governs coordination, to a robot soccer team...
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First-Ever 3d Printed Robots Made of Both Solids and Liquids
Researchers have developed "printable hydraulics," a technique for three-dimensional printing of robots involving simultaneously printing solid and liquid materials...
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White House Declines to Support Encryption Legislation Sources
The White House is declining to offer public support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple Inc to help law...
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