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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Surfing the Metaverse's Real Estate Boom
High prices have pushed some toward collective ownership, but the future of virtual properties is uncertain.
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Artificial Neurons Go Quantum with Photonic Circuits
Researchers demonstrated a quantum memristor on an integrated quantum processor operating on single photons in an effort to link artificial intelligence and quantum...
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UPS Expands Deal with Google Cloud to Prepare for Surge in Data
United Parcel Service has expanded its deal with Google Cloud, which will involve greater network, storage, and computing capacity.
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HSBC Working with IBM to Accelerate Quantum Computing Readiness
Bank envisions application of quantum capabilities for priorities such as pricing and portfolio optimisation, sustainability, risk, and fraud
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3D-Printed Tablets Offer Taste of Personalized Medicine
Researchers at the U.K.'s University College London have demonstrated that three-dimensional printing could be used to produce personalized medicines.
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Speed Limit of Computers Detected
Researchers have determined that a microchip's maximum signal transmission speed is about 1 petahertz, roughly 100,000 times faster than current transistors.
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'Momentum Computing' Pushes Technology's Thermodynamic Limits
Two University of California, Davis researchers have proposed a computational method for dissipating a small fraction of the heat generated by conventional computer...
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Researchers Protect Solar Technologies from Cyberattack
University of Georgia researchers unveiled a sensor system that watches power electronic converters at solar energy farms for signs of cyberattack in real time....
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A Robot Small Enough to Explore the Lungs
A new magnetic tentacle robot is tiny enough to take tissue samples from the lung's smallest bronchial vessels, or to deliver cancer therapy.
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Do EV Charging Stations Open the Power Grid to Attack?
Electric vehicle Charging Station Management Systems need greater focus on security.
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Corrupted Open Source Software Enters the Russian Battlefield
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus....
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Robotized Insects May Search Collapsed Buildings for Survivors
Researchers have developed robotized insects that could be used to search for survivors in collapsed buildings.
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Honda's Asimo Robot to Retire After 20-Year Career Wowing the Public
Honda has been developing the Asimo bipedal humanoid robot since 2000 with the goal of developing robots that will coexist with and be useful to people.
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Robot Truckers Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs along simple interstate routes.
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Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-friendly
All five of the biggest publicly traded crypto mining companies are developing, or already operating, plants powered by renewable energy.
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The FTC's New Enforcement Weapon Spells Death for Algorithms
It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction.
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The March of the Penguins Has a New Star: An Autonomous Robot
Researchers built a ground vehicle that may be operated in autonomous or remote-controlled modes to study hundreds of Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
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Most People are Cool with Implanting Chips in Their Brains, but Only if They Can Turn Them Off
More than three-quarters of U.S. adults polled were against surgically implanting a chip in their brains to improve their cognitive abilities.
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