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The Pentagon's Seek-and-Destroy Mission For Counterfeit Electronics
The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit...
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Nasa Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is back in contact with Earth after its successful first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April...
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Wireless Power Could Enable Ingestible Electronics
Researchers have developed a method for wirelessly powering ingestible electronic devices.
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When Artificial Intelligence Evaluates Chess Champions
Jean-Marc Alliot at the Computer Science Research Institute of Toulouse in France has developed a system that directly ranks chess players based on the quality...
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The Next Era of Drones Will Be Defined By 'swarms'
What do you picture when you think of a drone?
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Supercomputing: Probing the Future
A new automated probe system for gauging the performance of computer elements is designed to run 100 times faster than current supercomputers, while consuming far...
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How the pdate Framework Improves Security of Software pdates
New York University professor Justin Cappos has been developing The Update Framework (TUF) for eight years to help organizations update their software securely....
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New Dependent Routing Technique Helps Eliminate Algorithmic Bias
Researchers have developed a new method to counter algorithmic bias, with the goal of proving algorithms can guarantee fairness in resource allocation.
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New Method Enables More Realistic Hair Simulation
Disney researchers say they have developed a new method that makes it possible to realistically simulate hair by observing real hair in motion.
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'iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing
Scientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit our sun.
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A Massive New Library of 3D Images Could Help Your Robot Butler Get Around Your House
Researchers created ScanNet, a new database of three-dimensional images with millions of annotated objects, to help train machines to better understand the physical...
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Scientists Can Blind a Self-Driving Car From Seeing Pedestrians
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to prevent machine-vision systems from seeing specific categories of objects in a scene.
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Organ Donation: A New Frontier For Ai?
Researchers are developing a computerized machine-learning method for better predicting how well a typical organ transplant will proceed.
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Cassini's First Grand Finale Dive: Milestones
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its first dive through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017.
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The Next Big Hit in Molecule Hollywood
Chemists are dreamers. Every day, they imagine molecules floating in space, with atoms moving about in a stately dance.
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New Developments in av Navigation and Control
Researchers are working on an approach to unmanned air systems and aerial vehicles that does not use global navigation satellite systems .
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Google's New Chip Is a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing Supremacy
A team of Google researchers by the end of this year plans to build a device that achieves "quantum supremacy."
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Inside China's Plans For World Robot Domination
Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial...
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Free Quantum Computers Online!
D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.
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