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Evolutionary Algorithm Spawns ‘Living Robots’ from Frog Cells
When an evolutionary algorithm generates a successful robot design, the next step is usually to manufacture a physical robot from metals or plastics. Now, researchers...
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Self-driving Cars Could only Prevent a Third of U.S. Crashes: Study
Traffic experts say nine in 10 crashes result from human error, and more than 36,000 people died in U.S. car crashes last year.
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Underwater Drones Join Hunt for Trillions in Mineral Riches Trapped on Ocean's Floor
The nascent seabed mining industry is using underwater drones to map the ocean floor in the hunt for precious minerals worth trillions.
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Colorblind Users Push Technology Designers to Use Signals Beyond Color
Colorblind users are pressing technology developers to redesign products to accommodate their disability.
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Pioneer of Modern Data Center Design Receives Eckert-Mauchly Award
ACM and the IEEE Computer Society have named Google's Luiz Andre Barroso to receive the 2020 Eckert-Mauchly Award.
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Australia's new Quantum-Supercomputing Innovation Hub, CSIRO Roadmap
Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Center and quantum computing startup Quantum Brilliance have announced a quantum-supercomputing innovation hub.
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Evacuating Virtual Buildings
Researchers in the Netherlands are studying how virtual reality and augmented reality could help explain the behavior of pedestrians.
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IBM Claims Its Neural Computer Achieves Record AI Model Training Time
Researchers at IBM have developed a reconfigurable parallel processing system called the IBM Neural Computer.
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Microsoft's Quantum-Computing Services Attract New Customers
Microsoft's Azure cloud-hosted quantum-computing services are drawing new customers.
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Miss Your Office? Some Companies Are Building Virtual Replicas
Some employers are building virtual reproductions of their offices as online simulations for workers in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Supercomputer Model Simulations Reveal Cause of Neanderthal Extinction
Supercomputer models determined that competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens was likely responsible for the former's extinction in Eurasia.
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Microsoft to Adapt Its Cloud Software for Healthcare Industry
Microsoft plans to launch a version of its cloud-based software to meet the needs of healthcare organizations.
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Verifying, Validating the Clinical Usefulness of Wearable Technology
An international team of engineers and researchers created a framework to assess and document the clinical usefulness of wearable computing devices.
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Scanning the Skies for Danger
Finding dangerous asteroids by reverse-engineering their orbits.
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Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in Sweat
Researchers developed a new wearable sensor that monitors vitamin C levels in perspiration.
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Israeli Researchers Stop Cyberattacks with Discovery of Major DDoS Exploit
Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya discovered a previously unknown Distributed Denial of Service exploit.
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Smartphone App to Help Assess Anemia by Taking Picture of a Person's Eyelid
New software allows medical staff to obtain a patient’s hemoglobin count in real time by capturing an image of the patient's inner eyelid with a smartphone.
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Seeing Through Walls
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
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Engineers Develop Low-Cost, High-Accuracy System for Flexible Medical Robots
Roboticists developed a low-cost system to track the location of flexible surgical robots operating inside the human body.
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