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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Quantum Secure Communication Breakthrough for China Scientists
Technology inventor achieves new transmission distance of 100km, and says it is suitable at shorter distances for audio calls and texts.
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How Apple's Monster M1 Ultra Chip Keeps Moore's Law Alive
By combining two processors into one, the company has squeezed a surprising amount of performance out of silicon.
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Robot Subscription Services Let Companies Automate on the Cheap
The robots-as-a-service model is gaining ground as companies increasingly automate amid the pandemic, worker shortages, and surging demand.
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Quantum Datacenter Intranet Advances
While these breakthroughs must be considered proofs of concept, they demonstrate the pieces of future quantum datacenters are coming together, says independent...
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Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software
Google has pulled dozens of applications from its Google Play store amid researchers' findings that they contain software that secretly harvests data.
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Scientists Spy on Mount Etna with Fiber-Optic Cables
Scientists are monitoring Italy’s Mount Etna through fiber-optic cables, using distributed acoustic sensing to detect seismic signals that conventional sensors...
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The Failings of Machine Learning Models
Risk assessment, accountability, explainability, and bias, among other factors, challenge the success of machine learning.
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The Huge Endeavor to Produce a Tiny Microchip
As the global chip shortage continues, we take an inside look at how semiconductors are fabricated.
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Does This AI Think Like a Human?
Scientists have developed the Shared Interest method for rapidly analyzing a machine learning model's behavior by evaluating its individual explanations.
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Meet Geoffrey, the Pink Robot with Heart-Shaped Eyes that Delivers Coffee in Charlotte
Toronto, Canada-based robotics company Tiny Mile deployed the first of its "Geoffrey" delivery robots in the U.S. as part of a two-month test in Charlotte, NC. ...
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Drone Operators Who Halted Russian Convoy Headed for Kyiv
A Russian armored convey headed toward Kyiv was halted by night ambushes by Ukrainian special forces and drone operators who are part of an air reconnaissance unit...
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Solving the Challenges of Robotic Pizza-Making
Researchers have created an architecture for a robotic manipulation system that could teach robots to handle pizza dough.
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Chinese AI Turns Commercial Satellite into Spy Tracker Able to Follow Small Objects with Precision: Paper
The AI algorithm could be uploaded to processors on some of China's Earth observation satellites already in orbit without any ground assistance: researchers.
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AI Can Create Computer Inside Itself to Run Another AI, Play Pong
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed an approach that enables a neural network to run a code like a standard computer.
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Acoustic Fiber Can Turn Fabrics into Mics, Speakers
A team of multi-institutional scientists has developed a single-fiber acoustic sensor that can transform fabrics into microphones and speakers.
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Waymo to Send Driverless Cars Through San Francisco
Waymo has deployed fully driverless cars onto the streets of San Francisco to provide free rides to its employees.
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Putting 3D Printers to Work in Ukraine's War Zone
Entrepreneurs in Poland are rushing three-dimensional printers to Ukraine for the manufacture of defensive equipment.
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Russia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream
For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign Internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.
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Watch a Robot Peel a Banana Without Crushing It
A machine learning system developed by researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo can train a robot to peel a banana without crushing it.
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