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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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Four-Hundred-Pound NYPD Robot Gets Tryout in Times Square Subway Station
The New York Police Department has deployed a nearly 400-pound "fully autonomous outdoor security robot" in Times Square's subway station as a test run.
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Europe at Forefront of 3D Printing Boom over Last Decade
The European Patent Office found that over the last decade, patent applications for three-dimensional printing technology rose eight times faster than all technology...
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Cyborg Cockroach Can Navigate a Maze
Researchers have developed a method of creating cyborg cockroaches for use in search-and-rescue missions or building inspections that does not injure them.
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Asian Games Landmark for eSports Fires Olympic Dreams
At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, eSports players will have the opportunity to medal for the first time. The event, which begins Sept. 23, will see eSports...
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A Softer Approach to Robotics
Soft robots are moving from the research lab to the real world.
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Microsoft to Shield Paid-Up Copilot Customers From Any AI Copyright Brawls It Starts
Tough luck, freeloaders: you're on your own.
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Mathematicians Find 12,000 Solutions for Three-Body Problem
Mathematicians have identified 12,392 new stable orbital arrangements for three objects as allowed by Isaac Newton's laws of motion, also known as the three-body...
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New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient
Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible...
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