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MIT’s ‘mini cheetah’ robots frolic, fall, flip – and play soccer together
MIT’s Biomimetics Robotics department took a whole herd of its new ‘mini cheetah’ robots out for a group demonstration on…
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Microsoft uses AI to diagnose cervical cancer faster in India
More women in India die from cervical cancer than in any other country. This preventable disease kills around 67,000 women…
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Creators of modern rechargeable batteries share Nobel prize
If you had to slip a couple AAs into your smartphone every morning to check your email, browse Instagram, and…
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DARPA aims to make networks 100 times speedier with FastNIC
Having a slow connection is always frustrating, but just imagine how supercomputers feel. All those cores doing all kinds of…
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This prosthetic arm combines manual control with machine learning
Prosthetic limbs are getting better every year, but the strength and precision they gain doesn’t always translate to easier or…
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SpaceX ‘getting ready’ to fly orbital Starship design with new FCC filing
SpaceX is taking the steps necessary to begin test flying the orbital-class version of its Starship spacecraft, with new documents…
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Q-CTRL raises $15M for software that reduces error and noise in quantum computing hardware
As hardware makers continue to work on ways of making wide-scale quantum computing a reality, a startup out of Australia…
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$600M Cray supercomputer will tower above the rest — to build better nukes
Cray has been commissioned by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to create a supercomputer head and shoulders above all the rest,…
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Prenetics partners with Watsons, one of Asia’s largest personal care retailers, to sell its new consumer DNA tests
Genetics testing startup Prenetics today announced a major new deal for its brand in Asia. The company is partnering with…
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Voyant Photonics raises $4.3M to fit lidar on the head of a pin
Lidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but the lasers and…
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