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AR Tool Shown to Help Surgeons Remotely Guide First Responders in Battlefield-Like Scenarios
Researchers developed and tested an augmented reality headset that helps surgeons remotely guide medics through performing surgery in simulated war zones.
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IBM Partners with Japanese Business, Academia in Quantum Computing
IBM has launched a research partnership with Japanese industry and academia to expedite quantum computing innovations.
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Volunteer Hacker Army Boosts U.S. Election Cybersecurity
A University of Chicago program aims to strengthen U.S. election security by enlisting volunteer experts to aid local election officials.
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Programming Language, Tool Ensure Code Will Compute as Intended
A multi-institutional team of researchers has published Armada, a coding language and tool for high-performance concurrent programs that ensure code is mathematically...
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NASA Launched Its New Perseverance Rover to Mars
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday launched its new Mars rover, Perseverance.
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A Speed Bump on the Road to 5G?
The impact of the coronavirus lockdown on the buildout of 5G networks appears to have been minimal.
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Data Scientists Are Used to Making Up the Rules. Now They're Getting Some of Their Own to Follow.
The U.K.'s British Computer Society, Royal Statistical Society, and Royal Academy of Engineering have joined forces to develop industry-wide professional standards...
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Laser Inversion Enables Multi-Materials 3D Printing
Columbia Engineering researchers have created a technique that could enable multi-materials manufacturing by three-dimensional printing.
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Machine Learning Reveals Recipe for Building Artificial Proteins
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have created a process that uses big data to design new proteins.
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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Breaking Artificial Intelligence and How to Fix It
Among the many things the coronavirus outbreak has highlighted is how fragile our artificial intelligence systems are. We need new approaches to ensure our AI systems...
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Police Requests for Google Users' Location Histories Face New Scrutiny
Police use of "geofence" warrants is being disputed by criminal defendants in Virginia and San Francisco, and could be banned by lawmakers in New York.
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Engineers Built “Giant Atoms” That Enhance Quantum Computers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers hope their giant atoms lead to a simpler, enhanced form of quantum computers.
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U.S. Computer Sales Spiked in the Rush to Work From Home
Computer makers were caught off guard by the huge surge in demand for laptops, with many retailers and distributors struggling to keep up during the early period...
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Technology Makes Homes More Energy Independent, Helps Divert Power During Blackouts
A new smart technology can help utilities better serve communities struck by outages.
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Ford to Use Boston Dynamics Robots to Map Manufacturing Facilities
Ford will use two of Boston Dynamics' Spot robots to help the automaker update the original engineering plans of a transmission manufacturing plant, as a pilot...
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How AI Systems Use Mad Libs to Teach Themselves Grammar
Artificial intelligence researchers at Stanford University have found that advanced AI systems can work out linguistic principles like grammar by themselves.
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Black Tech Professionals Still Paid Less Than Their White Colleagues
Job search firm Hired estimates black technology professionals last year were offered an average yearly wage of $10,000 less than white workers, a minor improvement...
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Technology Infuses Ancient Hajj Rites Tailored for Pandemic
A small number of devout Muslims are being allowed to participate in the pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca this year, tailored for the coronavirus pandemic with the latest...
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