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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin
Keeping bitcoin running via the process of "mining" consumes a staggering amount of electricity, and experts are investigating energy-saving solutions.
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How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics' Brain Race
In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium.
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The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible
For more than 50 years, computers have made steady and dramatic improvements, all thanks to Moore's Law—the exponential increase over time in the number of transistors...
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Magnetothermal Genetics: A Fourth Tool in the Brain-Hacking Toolbox
A scientist wanting to hack into an animal's brain used to have three different tools to choose from: electric current, drugs, and light. Now there's a fourth:...
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Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them...
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E-Zpass Could Kickstart Smart Cities
Everyone likes the idea of a smart city. Traffic lights would automatically adjust to optimize traffic flow, you could find parking spaces without circling for...
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Aussies Win Amazon Robotics Challenge
Team ACRV, from the Australian Center for Robotic Vision at the Queensland University of Technology, won the final combined task in Amazon's 2017 Robotics Challenge...
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Jpl's Design For a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus
The longest amount of time that a spacecraft has survived on the surface of Venus is 127 minutes.
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Nanoneurons Enable Neuromorphic Chips For Voice Recognition
Last month, IEEE Spectrum ran a special report focusing on the question "Can We Copy the Brain?" The report offered a thorough examination of all the ongoing efforts...
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Complex Biological Computer Commands Living Cells
Researchers have developed a biological computer that functions inside living bacterial cells and tells them what to do, according to a report published yesterday...
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Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
Poets say the eyes are a window to the soul. But biomedical engineers are using the eyes to gain insight into the body.
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Eu Developing Robot Badgers For nderground Excavation
The European Union is underwriting the roBot for Autonomous unDerGround trenchless opERations, mapping, and navigation (BADGER) project.
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Global Race Toward Exascale Will Drive Supercomputing, AI to Masses
Industrial trends in high-performance computing are setting a foundation for the eventual pervasiveness of artificial intelligence and big data applications within...
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A Hybrid of Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Is Spawning New Ventures
Researchers think the field of merging quantum computing with machine learning may soon be ripe for commercialization.
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Taxonomy Goes Digital: Getting a Handle on Social Bots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research on social networks.
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Deepmind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions
DeepMind has created a YouTube dataset of 300,000 video clips and 400 human action classes to train its deep-learning algorithms to better identify human activities...
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Soft Robotic Structures Fold Themselves p in Hot Water
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new approach for making compliant, controllable robotic structures.
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Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing
Google researchers say they plan to demonstrate "quantum supremacy" by year's end.
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The Benefits of Old Age (for Transistors)
In case you didn't know, the transistors in your computer's processor, your smartphone's memory, and your car's autobrake system get old.
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