A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions. Robots can deliver food on a college campus and hit a hole-in-one on…
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Stanford Phase-Change Memory Could Pave the Way to Ultrafast, Energy-Efficient Computing
Scientists have spent decades searching for faster, more energy-efficient memory technologies for everything from large data centers to mobile sensors and other flexible electronics.…
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Metaverse: Five things to know, what it could mean for you
Credit: Led Gapline/Shutterstock In the wake of Facebook rebranding as Meta, reflecting its focus on the “metaverse,” Microsoft has now announced it, too, will launch…
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A new program models airflows much faster than before, without a supercomputer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Modeling reveals that even rooms with efficient ventilation often have areas where the air is stagnant. Assistant Professor Ville Vuorinen believes…
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Tidal Stream Power Can Generate 11% of UK’s Electricity Demand and Aid Drive for Net-Zero
SIMEC Atlantis Energy’s AR1500 turbine being installed at MeyGen, North Scotland. Credit: SIMEC Atlantis Energy Tidal stream power has the potential to deliver 11% of…
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Securing Data Transfers With Relativity: Information Cannot Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light
A team from UNIGE has implemented a new way to secure data transfers based on the physical principle of relativity. The volume of data transferred…
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Autonomous Robotic Rover Provides New Insight Into Life on the Deep Abyssal Seafloor
MBARI’s Benthic Rover II travels across the muddy seafloor, taking photographs and measuring how much oxygen bottom-dwelling animals and microbes are using over time. The…
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Deep Learning AI Explained: Neural Networks
Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as “deep learning” revives 70-year-old idea. In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers…
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Innovative software modules for effective excess thermal energy recovery
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain After nearly two years of data collection and software development, EU-funded project, EMB3Rs, is almost ready to reveal the best ways…
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Amazon and Caltech Partner to Create New Quantum Computing Hub
The partnership could lead to pioneering absolute zero. Quantum error correction methods use redundant sets of qubits at the physical hardware level (“physical” qubits) to…
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