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The field of robotics is fast-growing. Robots can now perform complicated movements with elegance — back-flipping, practicing parkour moves, even “carving” …
The date was Sept. 26, 1983, just after midnight in Moscow. In a small back room, alone, sat USSR Lt. Col Stanislav Petrov. His job: Watch all radar and…
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How in the world could you possibly look inside a star? You could break out the scalpels and other tools of the surgical trade, but good luck getting within…
The chip, which works with standard programming languages, could be particularly useful on phones, watches or other devices that rely on high-performance…