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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What to Do Now About Tomorrow's Code-Cracking Computers
A future-proof way to encrypt sensitive data is now available. Put it to use.
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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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Economists Are Revising Their Views on Robots and Jobs
There is little evidence of a pandemic-induced surge in automation.
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Robots Gathering to Help Beat Britain's Supply-Chain Shortages
Robotic logistics is helping to mitigate labor shortages and other supply-chain disruptions in the U.K.
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Can Pat Gelsinger Turn Intel Around?
The giant chipmaker's new boss has his work cut out.
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Bugs in the System
Bacteria could be used to improve the electronic properties of graphene.
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Summon the Comfy Chairs!
Researchers in Europe and the United States are developing a bevy of roboticized furniture they think will fill the gap between simpler domestic robots such as...
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Iran's Liberals and Conservatives Argue Over Internet Restrictions
When Iran's authorities started to block websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia in 2006, only a tenth of the population used the Internet.
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The Build-Up: Good and Ready
Robotics appears to be preparing for a major acceleration after a slow start.
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Immigrants From the Future
Robots intrigue both designers and enthusiasts in a way that goes beyond the technology's current practical applications.
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Chipmaking: When Silicon Leaves the Valley
Researchers are pursuing new ways of making chips, as it grows increasingly difficult to fit more transistors onto a silicon wafer.
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Magnetic Tape to the Rescue
Magnetic tape is being revived as a viable storage medium for the vast volume of data generated, which doubles every two years at its current rate.
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Conquering Babel
In "Star Trek", a television series of the 1960s, no matter how far across the universe the Starship Enterprise traveled, any aliens it encountered would converse...
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Difference Engine: The Pc All Over Again?
What could well be the next great technological disruption is fermenting away, out of sight, in small workshops, college labs, garages, and basements. Tinkerers...
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Oh, That
The limits of Moore's Law, which states that about every two years, computer chips will become twice as fast and twice as small, may finally be in sight.
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What Makes Heroic Strife
For the past decade or so, generals commanding the world's most advanced armies have been able to rely on accurate forecasts of the outcomes of conventional battles...
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Print Me a Stradivarius
The industrial revolution of the late 18th century made possible the mass production of goods, thereby creating economies of scale which changed the economy—and...
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