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How the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Inched Toward the Exascale
China's Sunway TaihuLight in June topped the Top500 list as the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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Wheeled Robot With Soft Rotary Motors Is 100-Percent Squishy
Rutgers University researchers have put four silicone-based wheels with air-powered motors inside of them on a robot that is as soft as a Crocs shoe.
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Durus Brings Human-Like Gait (and Fancy Shoes) to Hyper-Efficient Robots
SRI International's DURUS robot can now walk like a human while wearing normal shoes.
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Haptic Taco Helps You Navigate By Feel
Yale University researchers are developing small haptic peripherals to help drivers navigate using just their sense of touch.
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How to Build a Moral Robot
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the next major trend in the technology industry will be artificial intelligence.
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Jumproach Is a Robotic Bug That Leaps and Flips Just Like an Insect
Researchers say they have developed a new kind of jumping mechanism for robots that has the potential to scale from tiny hops to a catapult launch.
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Nsa Can Legally Access Metadata of 25,000 Callers Based on a Single Suspect's Phone
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...
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Holoflex: A Flexible Smartphone With a Holographic Display
The HoloFlex is a flexible smartphone with a holographic lightfield display that can simultaneously project glasses-free three-dimensional images to multiple users...
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Tiny Little Multi-Modal Picobug Walks, Flies, Grabs Stuff
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory have designed a robot called Picobug that can fly and walk, and soon will be able to grab things...
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How Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping By Letting Robots Learn For Themselves
Google Research is letting robots them learn for themselves how to grasp objects.
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What's the Year, Make, and Model of Your Vehicular Cloud?
Old Dominion University engineers want to use Internet-connected cars as a cloud computing resource.
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Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking Rsa Encryption
Computer scientists say they have assembled the first five quantum bits of a quantum computer that could someday factor any number.
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Will the Nsa Finally Build Its Superconducting Spy Computer?
The U.S. National Security Agency vision of a superconducting supercomputer may leap forward with the Cryogenic Computing Complexity program.
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World's First Single-Atom Optical Switch Fabricated
Researchers from ETH Zurich Switzerland have fabricated the world's first single-atom optical switch.
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This Robot Changes How It Looks at You to Match Your Personality
Sean Andrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed algorithms to help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways.
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The Neural Network That Remembers
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews.
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Laser Printing a Nanoscale Mona Lisa Could Revolutionize Reproduction Technology
Plasmonics technology has the potential to revolutionize laser printing, according to researchers at the Technical University of Denmark.
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How Supercomputing Can Survive Beyond Moore's Law
Supercomputing needs to be extended beyond the limits of Moore's Law, says Sandia National Laboratories' Erik DeBenedictis.
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