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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Fast-Moving Magnetic Particles Could Enable New Form of Data Storage
Researchers have shown they can create tiny disturbances in magnetic orientation at will in specific locations, which they say could be used to make a more efficient...
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'superhero' Robot Wears Different Outfits For Different Tasks
Primer is a shape-shifting robot that can reconfigure itself into different exoskeletal "outfits" to perform distinct tasks.
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Making Datacenters More Energy Efficient
BlueCache is a more energy-efficient datacenter caching system that uses flash memory.
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sing Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Researchers are investigating how computers can enhance medical decisions.
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Designing the Microstructure of Printed Objects
Researchers have developed a design system to catalog the physical characteristics of a huge number of tiny cube clusters that can function as building blocks for...
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Watch 3-D Movies at Home, Sans Glasses
"Home3D" allows users to watch three-dimensional movies without wearing special glasses.
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sing Chip Memory More Efficiently
Jenga is a new system that reallocates a chip's memory cache access in real time to create "cache hierarchies" designed to the needs of particular programs.
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Why Do Some Neighborhoods Improve?
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
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New 3D Chip Combines Computing and Data Storage
A new computer chip integrates carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory cells.
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Practical Parallelism
Researchers have developed a system called Fractal that enables up to 88-fold acceleration in a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.
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Drones That Drive
Researchers are developing robots that can maneuver around on land and fly through the air.
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New System Allows Optical 'deep Learning'
Researchers have developed a new approach to deep-learning computer systems that uses light instead of electricity.
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Wearable System Helps Visually Impaired sers Navigate
A new system to help visually impaired users navigate employs a three-dimensional camera, a belt with vibrational motors, and a refreshable Braille interface.
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Faster, More Nimble Drones on the Horizon
Researchers have developed an algorithm to tune a Dynamic Vision Sensor camera to detect only specific changes in brightness that matter for a particular system...
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New Scaling Law Predicts How Wheels Drive Over Sand
When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized jets but on model planes that have been scaled down to fit inside...
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Toward Mass-Producible Quantum Computers
Researchers have developed a new method that could help lead to the development of practical, diamond-based quantum computing devices.
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Speeding p Quality Control For Biologics
Engineers have developed a new method for analyzing biologics in production, based on a series of nanoscale filters.
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Cinematography on the Fly
Researchers are working to improve the performance of autonomous drones in capturing video for movies.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
C-LEARN is a system designed to let users teach robots skills that they can pass along to other robots.
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