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Advanced Quantum Computer Available to the Public
The researchers behind a quantum computer that encodes data in pulses of light have connected it to the Internet and made it available for public use.
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Seeing How Odor Is Processed in the Brain
Researchers created an odor delivery device, then used machine learning to analyze electroencephalograms to determine how the brain processes scents.
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Drones Could Scare Birds Off Agricultural Fields
An autonomous system can patrol agricultural fields around the clock to drive away birds that feed on the crops.
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No Sign of China's New Supercomputers Among World's Top500
Chinese developers of the new systems have not officially submitted details to the list organizers.
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Walmart Expands Drone-Delivery Service to Reach 4 Million Households
Walmart is expanding its partnership with DroneUp to make drone deliveries available in six more states this year.
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Multi-Spin Flips and a Pathway to Efficient Ising Machines
Researchers at Japan's Waseda University have developed a hybrid algorithm to improve Ising machines' efficiency with multi-spin flips.
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Minecraft's Code-Writing AI Points to the Future of Computers
Today, Microsoft's AI can take control of characters in Minecraft. Soon, it could help you control your whole computer.
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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them
Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth....
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Quantum Computer Could Catch Its Own Errors
A team of Austrian and German scientists has constructed a 16-quantum bit computer that runs error-free calculations.
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Singapore's Robot Workforce Plugs Labor Gaps
Businesses in Singapore increasingly are resorting to robots to help address labor shortages and perform a range of jobs.
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Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tool Coming to Apps, Schools
Clearview AI said it is expanding sales of its facial recognition software to companies outside of law enforcement.
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ORNL's Frontier First to Break the Exaflop Ceiling
The 59th edition of the TOP500 revealed the Frontier system to be the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s.
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AI Predicts Potential Nutrient Deficiencies from Space
Geographic areas with populations at high risk of micronutrient deficiencies can be identified using publicly available satellite data and artificial intelligence...
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Error-Free Quantum Computing Gets Real
The researchers implemented two computational gates on fault-tolerant quantum bits, which are necessary for a universal set of gates.
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Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.
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Philadelphia Launches Real-Time Smart City Project
The SmartCityPHL project in Philadelphia is a partnership of the city, Comcast, and US Ignite to help collect real-time data on air quality, weather, transportation...
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AI Powered Autonomous Cargo Ship for 500 Miles
A 749-gross-ton vessel is the first commercial cargo ship to be navigated entirely by artificial intelligence during a nearly 500-mile, 40-hour journey.
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U.K. Orders Clearview AI to Delete Images Belonging to U.K. Residents
The U.S. software company brands itself as "the world's largest facial network" holding billions of face photographs from the Internet.
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Microchips that Mimic the Human Brain Could Make AI More Energy Efficient
Neuromorphic chips could cut the power demands of digital assistants and other devices by orders of magnitude.
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