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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Texas Teen Wins $100,000 National Science Prize
A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for a developing a computer algorithm that helps robots navigate around obstacles, an algorithm...
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Nasa Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before...
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The Robotic Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer.
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For Lonely Astronauts, a Robotic Companion
You know the only thing lonelier than Sgt. Pepper's Hearts Club Band, and the Heartbreak Hotel, and the number one? Being alone and also not on Earth.
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The ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go
You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.
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Nasa Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian...
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How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...
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Proving Quantum Computers Feasible
Quantum computers are devices—still largely theoretical—that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might...
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Bend Me, Shape Me: Flexible Phones 'out By 2013'
Imagine treating your phone like a piece of paper.
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Teaching Tiny Drones How to Fly Themselves
Thanks to the wars in the Middle East, drones like the Predator have become household names.
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Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online
It's been a week since Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire pausing their war in Gaza. But on the internet, a different kind of fighting never stopped—and has actually...
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Auto-Immune: 'symbiotes' Could Be Deployed to Thwart Cyber Attacks
Anti-hacker defenses have long focused mainly on protecting personal computers and servers in homes and offices.
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Smallest Logic Circuit Fabricated With Single-Electron Transistors
Researchers from South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom have fabricated a half-adder logic circuit using only five transistors.
From Communications of the ACM
Zoom In, Zoom Out
Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still...
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Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
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ndisclosed Finding By Mars Rover Fuels Intrigue
The Mars rover Curiosity has found something—something noteworthy, in a pinch of Martian sand. But what is it?
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Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.
From ACM TechNews