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Chemical Computer Can Be Programmed to Solve Hard Problems
Researchers have programmed a chemical computer to solve specific problems, following earlier research on encoding data into the system.
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Surveillance Drone Saves Power by Deliberately Crashing into Walls
New York University researchers have built a small surveillance drone able to extend its battery life by attaching itself to a wall and powering down its rotors...
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Power Use Reveals Harmful Chips Hidden on Circuit Boards
A circuit board's power consumption can reveal malicious tampering designed to facilitate Trojan attacks to steal sensitive data or crash a device when triggered...
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AI Can Create Computer Inside Itself to Run Another AI, Play Pong
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed an approach that enables a neural network to run a code like a standard computer.
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Google, Waymo Used Driverless Cars to Make Virtual San Francisco
Researchers at driverless car company Waymo and Google Research used self-driving vehicles to create a virtual model of San Francisco.
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AI Can Erase Tattoos from Photos to Help Face Recognition Systems
Researchers trained an algorithm to remove facial tattoos from images, in order to improve facial recognition systems.
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AI Efficiently Fixes Mistakes in Error-Prone Quantum Computers
Artificial intelligence can eliminate errors from a group of quantum bits, thanks to researchers at Germany's RWTH Aachen University.
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Satellite Images Show Biggest Methane Leaks Come From Russia, U.S.
A multinational team determined that methane "ultra-emitter" sites account for about a tenth of the oil and gas industry's global methane emissions.
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Overloaded Memory Chips Generate Truly Random Numbers for Encryption
Generating truly random numbers for cryptographic algorithms could become possible through Nisa Bostanci and colleagues at Turkey's TOBB University of Economics...
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Robotic Hand Can Crush Beer Cans, Hold Eggs Without Breaking Them
Researchers at South Korea's Ajou University have built a highly dexterous robotic hand that can handle eggs gently, pour drinks, and crush aluminum cans.
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AI Has Learned to Read Time on Analog Clock
Artificial intelligence trained on computer-generated images of analog clocks captured at different angles learned to read the time.
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Robots Can Use Their Own Whirring to Echolocate, Avoid Collisions
Robots can navigate and avoid collisions using the sounds they produce through echolocation as bats do.
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Smart Scheduling for Big Computing Tasks Cuts Emissions Up to a Third
Researchers found that shifting large computing jobs to nights or weekends can lower carbon emissions from datacenters by as much as a third.
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Quantum Supremacy Achieved by More Complex Quantum Computer
A quantum computer completed a calculation in 4.2 hours that would have taken a classical system thousands of years.
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One-Legged Robot Hops About as Researchers Try Knocking It Over
The one-legged TTI Hopper robot can stand, hop, and maintain balance on sloping or unsteady surfaces.
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Snake-Like Robot Could Explore Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus
Researchers have developed a snake-like robot that could facilitate exploration of the interior of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
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Why Self-Driving Cars Could be Going the Way of the Jetpack
Some observers say the dream of fully autonomous vehicles is a mirage: creating robot vehicles able to tackle any kind of road or traffic situation is just too...
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Google Demonstrates Vital Step towards Large-scale Quantum Computers
Said Peter Knight at Imperial College London, "Without this advance, you will still have uncertainty about whether the roadmap towards fault tolerance was feasible...
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China Beats Google to Claim the World's Most Powerful Quantum Computer
Chinese researchers have demonstrated the world's most powerful quantum computer, displacing Google's Sycamore processor as the holder of quantum supremacy.
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