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First European Quantum Computing Facility Goes Online
Quantum Inspire is smaller than IBM's Quantum Experience, but offers the first online quantum processor that uses electron spins… From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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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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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...
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Mapping the Edge of Reality
Researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical ideas of causality.
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Wireless Power Could Enable Ingestible Electronics
Researchers have developed a method for wirelessly powering ingestible electronic devices.
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Not Stuck on Silicon
Researchers have developed a new technique they say could reduce the overall cost of wafer technology.
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Explained: Neural Networks
Deep learning is a new name for the neural-networking approach to artificial intelligence.
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Researchers 'iron Out' Graphene's Wrinkles
Researchers have developed methods to reduce and "iron out" wrinkles in graphene, potentially enabling faster and more efficient electronic and photonic devices...
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Faster Page Loads
Flowtune is a new system for allocating bandwidth in datacenter networks.
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A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines
Researchers have developed a method that could make it possible to produce some of the narrowest microchip wires ever.
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Protecting Web sers' Privacy
Splinter is a new encryption system that disguises users' database queries so they reveal no private information.
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Toward Printable, Sensor-Laden 'skin' For Robots
Researchers believe three-dimensional printing of flexible electronics integrating sensors and processing circuitry is key to bulk manufacturing of a robot "skin...
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Sharing the Fares
The potential for urban ride-sharing is similar for a variety of cities all over the world.
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Artificial Data Give the Same Results as Real Data--Without Compromising Privacy
The Synthetic Data Vault is a new machine-learning system that automatically creates synthetic data, which can be used in data science efforts that otherwise would...
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New Resource For Optical Chips
Researchers have demonstrated that silicon optical devices can reproduce physical phenomena used by high-end telecommunications optoelectronic components.
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Researchers Devise Efficient Power Converter For Internet of Things
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Microsystems Technologies Laboratories recently unveiled a power converter that stays efficient at currents...
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Wearable AI System Can Detect a Conversation's Tone
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that utilizes a wearable device and artificial intelligence to detect whether the...
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Smart Automation
Researchers at the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology have spent the last several years developing autonomous...
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