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X-Ray Technology Reveals Marie Antoinette's Censored Secret Correspondence
Technology has retrieved secret correspondence from French queen Marie-Antoinette to Swedish count Axel von Fersen, that a censor blotted out with dark ink.
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Ocean Drone Captures Video From Inside Hurricane
An uncrewed surface vehicle built by California-based company Saildrone shot video from inside a hurricane.
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Tying Quantum Computing to AI Prompts Smarter Power Grid
Combining quantum computing with artificial intelligence could lead to the rapid diagnosis and identification of remedies for electrical grid problems.
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LLNL Explores Laser Beam Shaping to Improve Metal 3D Printing
Researchers found that using Bessel beams reduced the likelihood of pore formation and "keyholing" in laser powder bed fusion, a high-power laser printing process...
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Research Finds Security Flaws in Apps for Popular Smart Home Devices
Researchers discovered "critical cryptographic flaws" in the smartphone companion apps of 16 popular smart home devices.
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When Accidents Happen, Drones Weigh Their Options
New research by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is focused on gauging unmanned aerial vehicles' ability to recover from malfunctions...
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Pandemic Pushes Chinese Tech Giants to Roll Out More Courier Robots
Chinese technology giants Alibaba, Meituan, and JD.com plan to increase their courier robot fleets fourfold to more than 2,000 by next year.
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Teams Develop Code to Coordinate Robots, Win $535,000 in Space Robotics Challenge
Seven teams that competed in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge were awarded a total of $535,000.
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How an 11-Foot-Tall 3D Printer Is Helping to Create a Community
Three-dimensional printing can create nearly any object. A partnership in Mexico is putting that theory to the test, building a village for residents living in...
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Simple Make-Up Tips Can Help You Avoid Facial Recognition Software
Researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev developed artificial intelligence software that can provide makeup advice to foil facial recognition...
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It's Not Easy to Control Police Use of Tech—Even With a Law
A key backer of a 2018 Oakland law to rein in tools like automated license plate readers says the city is not following the rules.
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Scaffolding Robot Buttresses Tipping Construction Industry
Like few other sectors, construction is being inundated with robots and technology.
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SEC's Gensler Doesn't See Cryptos Lasting Long
Regulator says history of 'wildcat banking' in U.S. shows limited viability for private forms of money.
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ML Method to Analyze Complex Scientific Data of Proteins
A new machine learning process enables faster analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance data than conventional methods, with comparable accuracy.
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Robot-Prepped Pizza at 800 Degrees
Autonomous pizza machine developer 800 Degrees Pizza has partnered with an international pizza brand to offer a fully automated pizza-making experience.
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Now We're Cooking with Lasers
Experiments by Columbia University researchers have considered different cooking modalities by exposing chicken to blue and infrared light, then 3D-printing a sample...
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'Dislike' Button Would Improve Spotify Recommendations
A research team at Cornell University has developed a recommendation algorithm that could improve Spotify by incorporating both likes and dislikes.
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Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablets Could Be Decoded by AI
A deep learning artificial intelligence model has decoded ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets.
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Amazon, Microsoft Swoop In on $24-Billion India Farm-Data Trove
Technology giants including Amazon, Microsoft, and Cisco are preparing to access data from India's farmers in a campaign to modernize the country's agricultural...
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