Production has begun on company Q.ANT’s light-powered neural processing unit. The company plans to deliver 1,000 in the next 12 months.
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A TOUGH NEW KIND OF PLASTIC THAT DISSOLVES IN SALT WATER
Plastics are useful to hold all kinds of things when you want them to but not so useful afterward. The strong bonds that make them unbreakable as containers also make them unbreakable when they’re trash.
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CHINA APPROVES PILOTLESS ROBOTAXIS FOR COMMERCIAL OPERATION
Urban mobility company EHang has received a green light from China’s regulators to fly pilotless taxis at low altitude in the cities of Guangzhou and Hefei.
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HIGH-TECH SCIENCE SPECIAL REPORT: SERVICE ROBOTS ARE HERE TO HELP
Japan, with one of the world’s oldest populations, faces a labor shortage. The lack is particularly acute in restaurants, where servers work hard, pay is low, and grumpy customers must be kept happy.
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HAS D-WAVE REALLY ACHIEVED “QUANTUM SUPREMACY?”
D-Wave, a California research firm, has published a technical paper claiming it has achieved “quantum supremacy”—using a quantum computer to solve a problem beyond the reach of today’s supercomputers.
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CHINESE CARMAKER UNVEILS FIVE-MINUTE EV CHARGER
Drivers skeptical of owning an electric vehicle (EV) often cite two concerns: the lack of enough public charging stations and the time it takes—up to an hour—to even partially recharge an EV’s battery pack.
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PRINTING YOUR NEXT MEAL
3D printing is building everything from entire houses to detailed anatomical models for medical research. Now it’s printing food.
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GYROTRONS BRING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY CLOSER
Geothermal energy—piping the Earth’s inner heat to the surface to warm buildings, water, and other things that need it—has been limited by the ability to reach down to get it.
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STORING 5,000 VIDEO MOVIES ON A TINY CRYSTAL
At the University of Chicago, researchers have used the quirks of quantum physics to store and retrieve vast amounts of data in a tiny crystal barely a tenth of an inch in size (about 0.10 of a millimeter).
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STUDY: MORE SOCIAL MEDIA TIME, MORE PERSONALITY DISTURBANCES
Psychologists at Canada’s Simon Fraser University reviewed more than 2,500 published scientific papers detailing links between social media use and mental disturbances.
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