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Surveillance Drone Saves Power by Deliberately Crashing into Walls
New York University researchers have built a small surveillance drone able to extend its battery life by attaching itself to a wall and powering down its rotors...
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NEC X Announces Fifth AI Start-Up from its Corporate Accelerator Program
Start-up Beagle Technology addresses agricultural labor shortage and cost issues with new automated pruning technology for the wine industry.
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Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.
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Elon Musk Acquires Twitter for $44 Billion
The company's board and the Tesla CEO hammered out the final details of his $54.20 a share bid.
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Spilling Silicon Valley's Secrets, One Tweet at a Time
Using only her own ability to engineer code, Jane Manchun Wong is keeping tech on its toes.
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Investing is Not Enough: Andreessen Horowitz has New Crypto Research Lab
The firm is trying to bridge academia and the crypto industry, an unusual investment in venture capital.
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Can Robots Save Nursing Homes?
As more nursing home and assisted living facility staff leave the profession, some facilities are turning to robots to fill in the gaps.
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Your iOS App May Still Be Covertly Tracking You, Despite What Apple Says
Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Oxford found that iOS apps can still track users without explicit permission.
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U.S. Drone Company Zipline Starts Delivering Medicine in Japan
U.S. drone firm Zipline is delivering medical supplies to pharmacies and hospitals in southwestern Japan via aerial drones.
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Robotic Rat Climbs, Crawls, Turns on a Dime
Qing Shi and colleagues at China's Beijing Institute of Technology built a rat-inspired robot that can squeeze through tight spaces, which could be used to assess...
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Cyber Chiefs Try New Tricks to Attract Talent
With demand exceeding the available workforce, more cybersecurity and risk executives are seeking candidates without degrees or traditional technology backgrounds...
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Concerned Your Smartphone Is Spying on You?
Columbia University computer scientists developed an algorithm that can block smart devices from spying on users by generating extremely quiet sounds.
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AI Researcher Says Police Tech Suppliers are Hostile to Transparency
Expert witness in Lords police tech inquiry welcomes committee's findings but questions whether its recommendations.
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Hospital Robots Are Helping Combat a Wave of Nurse Burnout
Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
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These are The 5 Most In-Demand Cloud Computing Jobs in 2022
Unlike sectors such as hospitality, the cloud computing industry continued to grow in 2020 and onwards. But it's not stopping there.
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Researchers Develop Innovative 3D-Printing Technology for Glass Microstructures
An international team of researchers has developed a three-dimensional printing process for glass microstructures.
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Scientists Develop Computational Approach to Reduce Noise in X-Ray Data
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have helped to de-noise synchrotron x-ray experiments computationally.
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Rethinking Rare Earth Elements
Researchers are looking to untapped sources—from fertilizer waste to printed circuit boards—to solve the environmental and supply chain problems of rare earth elements...
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Researchers Break World Record for Quantum-Encrypted Communications
The research could lead to hack-proof networks.
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