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AI Will Augment SEO
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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Robots Give Surgeons a Helping Hand
About 6,700 Da Vinci robots in place at hospitals across the globe have performed more than 10 million surgical procedures.
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Plastic Chips Bend Computing
Cheap, flexible processors could be a step on the road to the Internet of Everything.
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Nvidia, Arm Call Off $80B Merger; Arm CEO Resigns
Nvidia is the leader in the graphics processing unit and AI processor market. Arm intellectual property powers virtually all smartphones and Internet of Things...
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Intel Invests in Open-Source RISC-V Processors, Creates Billion-Dollar Fund
Intel and RISC-V working together is a game-changer, and today is the day that RISC-V becomes a chip power.
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Tiny Chips, Big Headaches
Concern is growing about larger, more intricate cloud computing networks' fundamental dependence on less reliable and less predictable chips.
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Student-Built Robot Rover on Track to Explore the Moon
Iris, a tiny wheeled robot built by students at Carnegie Mellon University, is expected to be the first uncrewed rover from the U.S. to explore the Moon.
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Infrared Goggles, Vibrating Armband Help the Blind 'See'
Researchers incorporated a pair of infrared cameras into prototype goggles to help blind and visually impaired people navigate their environment intuitively.
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Ultrathin Materials Lead to Big Advance in Quantum Computing
Using ultrathin materials to reduce the size of superconducting qubits may pave the way for personal-sized quantum devices.
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U.S. Government Releases National Strategic Plan for Quantum Workforce Development
The agencies also announced U.S. plans to participate in World Quantum Day, an international event to be held on April 14.
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Robots Marched On in 2021, with Record Orders by North American firms
Factories and other industrial users ordered 28% more robots last year than in 2020, according to data compiled by the Association for Advancing Automation.
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VR to the ER: Metaverse Early Adopters Prove Accident-Prone
Tally includes broken vases, dislocated shoulders, injured girlfriends; "Why don't you go to the gym like a normal person?"
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GPU Fingerprinting Can Be Used to Track You Online
And we thought cookies were dangerous enough.
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A New Method for Quantum Computing
Physicists have proposed a new scalable quantum computing architecture using trapped ions.
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Solving Superconducting Mystery with Supercomputer Computations
A multi-institutional team of researchers has demonstrated that phonons contribute to superconductivity in copper-based materials.
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Smartphone, MD: Going Viral
A smartphone application and laboratory kit can diagnose COVID-19, COVID variants, and flu virus infections.
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Lego Robot with an Organic 'Brain' Learns to Navigate a Maze
The neuromorphic computing device solved the puzzle by working like an animal brain would.
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Robot Performs Keyhole Surgery on Pigs
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University programmed a robot to perform minimally invasive keyhole surgery on pigs.
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Software Is Crammed Full of Bugs. This 'Exciting' Project Could Banish Most of Them
Chip designer Arm has released a prototype development board based on the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture.
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