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Your Sweaty Fingertips Could Help Power the Next Generation of Wearable Electronics
The new device is just 1 square centimeter wide and flexible enough to wrap around a fingertip.
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'Hubble Is Back!'
Famed space telescope has a new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch.
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Photonic Computers: The Future of Computing Is … Analogue
The future is optical. Photonic processors promise blazing fast calculation speeds with much lower power demands, and they could revolutionize machine learning....
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Japan Shatters Internet Speed Record
Japanese engineers have broken the world Internet speed record with a 319 TB per second data transmission rate across more than 3,001 kilometers of fiber-optic...
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'The Market Is Insane': Cars Are Sold Even Before They Hit the Lot
A shortage of computer chips is keeping automakers from producing enough cars to meet rising demand. Used cars are scarce, too.
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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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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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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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Paris Welcomes First Pizzeria Operated by Robots
The first fully robotic pizzeria has opened in Paris' Beaubourg neighborhood after eight years of development and refinement.
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Quantum Computing on a Chip: Brace for the Revolution
The development is being compared to the desktop computing system revolution of the 1960's.
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Buzz Off, Bees. Pollination Robots Are Here.
Advances in artificial intelligence are helping some startups develop another way to pollinate plants, which could increase yield compared with insects and human...
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Columbia's Army Ants Youth Robotics Team Wins International Award for Smart Compression Stocking
Army Ants, a youth robotics team from Columbia, MO, won the 2021 Global Innovation Design Award in the FIRST Robotics Competition for a smart compression stocking...
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The New Form of Currency
Central bank digital currencies hold the promise—and peril—of changing money as we know it.
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U.S. Says Humans Will Always Be In Control of AI Weapons, but the Age of Autonomous War is Already Here
The Pentagon says a ban on AI weapons isn't necessary, But missiles, guns and drones that think for themselves already kill people in combat, and have been for...
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'We Don't Need Another Michelangelo': In Italy, It's Robots' Turn to Sculpt
Scientists at the Robotor laboratory in Carrara, Italy, are developing sculpting robots to keep the country on the artistic forefront.
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MIT Robot Could Help People with Limited Mobility Dress Themselves
Researchers designed an algorithm to help a robot efficiently dress a human, theoretically ensuring human safety by reasoning about the human model's uncertainty...
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