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Building Up the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
U.S. chipmakers await monetary support from the government a year after supporting legislation was signed into law.
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The Toughest Spaceship We've Ever Built
It's been a long time since anyone tried landing on Venus,
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How Will Virtual Reality Change Our Lives?
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
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How a Woman Trapped in Her Body 'spoke' Once Again
Around six years have now passed since Waltraut Faehnrich last opened and closed her eyes without assistance.
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The Detectives Watching You from Space
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...
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Supercomputer Simulates Whole-Body Blood Flow
A new supercomputer simulation of the circulation of blood throughout the entire human body correlates very closely with real-world flow measurements.
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What Would Happen If Aliens Contacted Earth?
Nearly 40 years ago, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was scanning a part of the sky hoping to detect a signal from an alien civilisation.
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Ted 2016: Hololens nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
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How the British and Americans Started Listening In
It was late on 8 February 1941 when four Americans arrived at Bletchley Park.
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Facewatch 'thief Recognition' Cctv on Trial in k Stores
Until now, Facewatch has provided local groups of businesses with a way to share their CCTV images of shoplifters and other potential offenders.
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How Thermal Imaging Tech Is About to Become Hot Stuff
Although it's already been used by industry, the military and some emergency services, it was expensive and therefore had a limited market.
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Tiny Chip That Powers Itself From Radio Waves
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers have developed a tiny sensor powered by the radio waves it uses to communicate information.
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'li-Fi 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi'
A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office.
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European Parliament Votes Against Net Neutrality Amendments
The European Parliament has voted against a set of rules intended to safeguard "net neutrality" in the EU.
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Why Robot That Gets 'tired and Hormonal' Is a Good Thing
Having certain robots operate using the electronic equivalent of an endocrine system could present advantages, according to researchers.
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Cardiff University Develops Virtual Assistant Dubbed Sherlock
A virtual assistant developed at Cardiff University recently had its first public trial at the BBC's Make It Digital event.
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Study Suggests London nderground May Be 'too Fast'
A computer model of the London Underground predicts trains that travel too fast compound congestion when key locations outside the city center become bottlenecks...
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The Search For a Thinking Machine
Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."
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The Oil-Rich City Betting on Drones
Over the PA system a voice tells us not to be alarmed. What we are about to see is just a demonstration, courtesy of the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of the Interior...
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