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Fiber Optic Cables Could Shake Up Our Understanding of Deep-Sea Quakes

22 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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There’s a lot we don’t know about the ocean floor, thanks to crushing pressures and perpetual darkness. But there are still repercussions from what happens down there. Deep sea earthquakes, for example, can result in devastating tsunamis. So it would be nice to keep an eye on the ocean floor.…

Webinar: sub-THz communication – A key enabler for Beyond 5G?

21 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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In this webinar, we summarize the technical challenges to generate THz radiation using electronic and photonic approaches, including their applications. Source: IEEE Spectrum Computing

Pride in Tech: How Lotus Championed Gay Rights During the AIDS Crisis

18 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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COLLECTION OF THE COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM, 102792233 The Lotus Development Corp. sponsored the first Boston AIDS Walk, in 1986. How do you compare plagues? If you’re like me, an elder member of Generation X, then your late adolescence and young adulthood were profoundly shaped by a plague that still stalks…

Video Friday: Telexistence

18 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): RoboCup 2021 – June 22-28, 2021 – [Online Event] RSS 2021…

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Rocket Mining System Could Blast Ice from Lunar Craters

18 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Realistically, in-situ resource utilization seems like the only way of sustaining human presence outside of low Earth orbit. This is certainly the case for Mars, and it’s likely also the case for the Moon—even though the Moon is not all that far away (in the context of the solar system). It’s…

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Two Natural-Language AI Algorithms Walk Into A Bar…

18 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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“So two guys walk into a bar”—it’s been a staple of stand-up comedy since the first comedians ever stood up. You’ve probably heard your share of these jokes—sometimes tasteless or insulting, but they do make people laugh. “A five-dollar bill walks into a bar, and the bartender says, ‘Hey, this is…

Backscatter Radio at Gigabit Speeds

18 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Backscatter radios encode data in reflected signals to offer wireless communications that consume as little energy as possible—but they can be limited by poor data rates. Now scientists at Nokia Bell Labs and their colleagues have developed backscatter radios capable of gigabit speeds, for potential use in the emerging Internet…

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It’s (Still) Really Hard for Robots to Autonomously Do Household Chores

17 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Every time we think that we’re getting a little bit closer to a household robot, new research comes out showing just how far we have to go. Certainly, we’ve seen lots of progress in specific areas like grasping and semantic understanding and whatnot, but putting it all together into a…

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Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation

16 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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AI has already shown off the capability to create photorealistic images of cats, dogs, and people’s faces that never existed before. More recently, researchers have been investigating how to train AI models to create more complex images that could include many different objects arranged in different poses and configurations. The…

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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned

16 Ιουνίου 2021 by paulkokos

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A chilling future that some had said might not arrive for many years to come is, in fact, already here. According to a recent UN report, a drone airstrike in Libya from the spring of 2020—made against Libyan National Army forces by Turkish-made STM Kargu-2 drones on behalf of Libya’s…

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