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Meet the Forksheet: Imec's In-Between Transistor
The architecture shrinks circuits in a valuable step toward the ultimate CMOS device.
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U.S. Universities Building New Semiconductor Workforce
U.S. universities are training next-generation semiconductor engineers and technicians to fill the jobs needed for the CHIPS Act, signed by President Biden in August...
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Ostrich-Inspired Robot Gives Its Neck a Stretch
Researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo have developed a robotic manipulator based on the muscles and tendons in an ostrich's neck.
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Software Detective Debunked Mike Lindell's Election Fraud Claims
Robert Zeidman was awarded $5 million by the arbitration panel.
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Industry Out of Phase With Supercomputers
Chip-industry changes threaten U.S. supercomputing.
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DIY Neurotech: Making BCI Accessible
The costs of hardware required for brain-computer interfaces, particularly electrodes and amplifiers, have made it difficult for researchers outside big tech companies...
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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready
What the Avatar XPrize revealed about the future of telepresence robots.
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Organoid Intelligence: Computing on the Brain
Researchers have proposed using brain organoids—spherical masses cultured from neural tissue—as computational systems.
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AI Can't Take Over Everyone's Jobs Soon (If Ever)
Models are still expensive to run, hard to use, and frequently wrong.
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MIT Turbocharges Python's Notoriously Slow Compiler
Codon lets users run Python code as efficiently as C or C++.
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Humans (Mostly) Love Trash Robots
Simple robots wander NYC asking for trash and recycling, and it's adorable.
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Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down
Mastodon is just the start—here comes the Fediverse.
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Mini Robot Enters Blood Vessels, Completes Surgery
Researchers recently demonstrated that a miniature robot could travel autonomously to a superficial femoral artery in a pig, deliver contrast dye, and return safely...
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AI Goes to K Street: ChatGPT Turns Lobbyist
Automated influence campaigns could spell trouble for society.
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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf
He codesigned the Internet protocol and transmission control protocol.
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Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm
Unused bandwidth in neurons can be tapped to control extra limbs.
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Stacking Turns Organic Transistors Up
Scientists in the U.S. and China have adopted a vertical framework to produce high-performance organic electrochemical transistors.
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Optical AI Could Feed Voracious Data Needs
To power the 3D-printed, multiplexing system, just shine light on it.
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Dendrocentric AI Could Run on Watts, Not Megawatts
A study by Stanford University's Kwabena Boahen proposes a method that would allow neural networks to run on watts drawn from a smartphone battery instead of megawatts...
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