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17-qubit chips have officially arrived, and so begins the quantum revolution
In Brief Intel's 17-qubit chip represents how close we currently are to incorporating quantum computing into our technology. Professors Andrew Childs and Fred Chong weigh in on quantum computing's...
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Where Self-Driving Cars Go to Learn
Last December, Uber clashed with California regulators when it tested its self-driving cars in San Francisco without permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The company was quickly...
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I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometimes you can use them to win...
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Ban on killer robots urgently needed, say scientists
The movie portrays a brutal future. A military firm unveils a tiny drone that hunts and kills with ruthless efficiency. But when the technology falls into the wrong hands, no one is safe. Politicians...
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Weather Station Needs Almost No Batteries
While the ESP8266 has made its way into virtually every situation where a low-cost WiFi solution is needed, it’s not known as being a low-power solution due to the amount of energy it takes to run...
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Epigenetic editing reveals surprising insights into early breast cancer...
Changing the epigenetic code of a single gene is enough to cause a healthy breast cell to begin a chain reaction and become abnormal, according to research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)....
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xkcd: Nightmare Email Feature
Archive What If? Blag Store About xkcd updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Boston Dynamics’ latest robot dog is slightly less terrifying
Robot maker Boston Dynamics, now owned by Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank, just published a short YouTube clip featuring a new, more advanced version of its SpotMini robot. SpotMini, first...
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The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks
Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the Wikileaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the...
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Model S & Model X
Order Your Model X Order Your Model S Get Tesla Updates Order Yours Model S Electric Sedan Quickest, Longest Range Seats 5 Adults Model X Electric SUV Spacious, Tow Rated Seats 7 Adults
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Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from...
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SKELLY the Skeleton Robot
While it might seem like a long time away to most people, if you’re looking to make an amazing automated display for Halloween, it’s time to start planning! One idea would be an automated skeleton...
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Researchers have linked a human brain to the Internet for the first time ever
In Brief Researchers from Wits University have linked a brain directly to the internet. Data gathered from this project could help fuel the next steps in machine learning and brain-computer interfaces....
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Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication
In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the Materials Project have produced a wealth of computational tools for designing new materials useful for a range of...
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Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
With a leak of intelligence methods like the N.S.A. tools, Mr. Panetta said, “Every time it happens, you essentially have to start over.” Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the...
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Mapping connections of single neurons using a holographic light beam
Researchers at MIT and Paris Descartes University have developed a technique for precisely mapping connections of individual neurons for the first time by triggering them with holographic laser light....
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UV Sensitive Filament As A Persistent Display
Some of the hacks we feature are modifications of existing devices, others are ground-up builds of entirely new ones. And then there are the experiments, things that have to be worth trying because...
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer: The Other Nobel Prize Winner
Maria Goeppert-Mayer was one of only two women to win the Nobel prize for physics thus far, the other being Marie Curie. And yet her name isn’t anywhere near as well known as Marie Curie’s. She also...
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