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What's Down the Road for Silicon?
Meet the new materials overpowering the electric economy.
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Crowdfunding a War: How Online Appeals Are Bringing Weapons to Ukraine
The online campaign has tapped into widespread Western sympathy and produced meaningful donations for the country's war effort.
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David Walden, Computer Scientist at Dawn of Internet, Dies at 79
In 1969, he was part of a team of young engineers who built the first machine to switch data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet.
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Can VR Help Ease Chronic Pain?
Virtual reality has emerged as a tool to treat chronic pain and is gaining popularity.
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A Heart-Pounding Supercar Aims to Upend How Cars Are Built
The Czinger 21C is made with 3D printers. "If he's successful," an analyst said, "it will be an earthquake for the industry."
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Can Robots Save Nursing Homes?
As more nursing home and assisted living facility staff leave the profession, some facilities are turning to robots to fill in the gaps.
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The Huge Endeavor to Produce a Tiny Microchip
As the global chip shortage continues, we take an inside look at how semiconductors are fabricated.
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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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See 'Spot' Save: Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
Plans to use two new robot dogs only in precarious search and rescue missions may help avoid the controversy that met the Police Department's robots last year. ...
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Here Comes the Full Amazonification of Whole Foods
A newly revamped store in Washington shows how thoroughly Amazon has woven itself into the grocery shopping experience.
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The World Needs What Intel Makes. Can It Make a Comeback?
Patrick Gelsinger is back running a company he first joined at 18. The chip maker was a Silicon Valley titan that lost its luster. As the world craves chips, the...
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Underwater Drones Dive to Start Search for Shackleton's Famed Ship
Explorers have started combing the Weddell Sea for Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, which sank in 1915.
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Tiny Chips, Big Headaches
Concern is growing about larger, more intricate cloud computing networks' fundamental dependence on less reliable and less predictable chips.
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How the Computer Chip Shortage Could Incite a U.S. Conflict With China
A war game and study by a think tank illustrate how dependent the world is on Taiwan's semiconductor foundries.
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Everybody into the Metaverse! VR Beckons Big Tech
Many believe mainstream use of the metaverse will be realized only when cumbersome augmented reality headsets tare replaced by lightweight eyeglass-like alternatives...
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Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People, Steal Cars?
Concerns are mounting as Apple's location-tracking AirTag devices are being found on people's cars and in their belongings, giving rise to fears of stalking.
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Killer Robots Aren't Science Fiction. A Push to Ban Them Is Growing
A U.N. conference made little headway on limiting development and use of killer robots, prompting stepped-up calls to outlaw such weapons with a new treaty.
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How to Scare an Invasive Fish? A Menacing Robot Predator.
University of Western Australia scientists have created a robot fish to terrify the invasive mosquitofish species by mimicking its most feared predator.
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This Robot Looks Like a Pancake, Jumps Like a Maggot
Researchers designed a soft, legless robot that can hop and navigate obstacle courses.
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