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The Unhackable Envelope
Researchers have developed an envelope for hardware security modules that requires no battery and cannot be broken into without deleting its stored data.
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FlyJacket Lets You Control a Drone With Your Body
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has developed an intuitive, wearable drone control system.
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Nanobots Glide Through Living Cells
Using small, rotating magnetic fields, researchers controlled nanomachines inside of living cells to trace the letters "N" and "M."
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'Quasi-Non-Volatile' Memory Looks to Fill Gap Between Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory
Researchers at Fudan University in China have created a new gate design for transistors using two-dimensional materials
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See Straight Through Walls by Augmenting Your Eyeballs With Drones
Researchers are studying how to use augmented reality to change drones into remote cameras that an untrained user can easily control.
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What People See in 157 Robot Faces
A study of robot faces across 76 dimensions found that robots whose faces were rated less-friendly lacked a mouth and pupils, but had eyelids.
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To Speed p AI, Mix Memory and Processing
The University of Illinois' Naresh Shanbhag is pushing for a new computer architecture that blends computing and memory so devices can be smarter without consuming...
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Cracking Open the Black Box of AI with Cell Biology
The deep neural networks that power today's artificial intelligence systems work in mysterious ways.
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Big Data Shows Women Engineers Downplay Coding Skills
Female engineers contributing to open source software websites are less likely than males to self-report their coding skills in job candidate profiles.
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Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to ltralow-Power Chips
Semiconductor companies are investigating ferroelectrics.
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Swirly Skyrmions Could Be the Future of Data Storage
Researchers are moving toward commercializing skyrmion-based magnetic data storage by electrically detecting for the first time a single skyrmion at room temperature...
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Designing Customizable Self-Folding Swarm Robots
Researchers are developing robotic swarms that can be rapidly customized, self-assembled, and self-deployed without human intervention.
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This AI Hunts Poachers
Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security is an artificial intelligence program that uses machine learning algorithms to predict where poaching is likely to occur...
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With the Summit Supercomputer, U.s. could Retake Computing's Top spot
In November of 2012, the semiannual Top500 rankings of the world's supercomputers gave top billing to a machine constructed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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Not Your Father's Analog Computer
Significant work is underway in analog computing in the context of machine learning, machine intelligence, and biomimetic circuits.
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To Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Trap a Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon Cage
For Fridtjof Nansen, 13 April 1895 started well.
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A Better Technique For Spotting Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives
Most software bugs won't kill you.
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To Secure the Internet of Things, We Must Build It Out of 'patchable' Hardware
The security of the Internet of Things could depend on its constituent hardware being "patchable" so it can adapt to future threats, write several experts.
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What Cmu's Snake Robot Team Learned While Searching For Mexican Earthquake Survivors
Researchers used their snake robots in search-and-rescue missions in Mexico City shortly after a major earthquake struck the region in September.
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