Computer Sciences
A novel encryption method devised by MIT researchers secures data used in online neural networks, without dramatically slowing their runtimes. This approach holds promise for using cloud-based neural networks for medical-image ...
Aug 17, 2018
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Engineering
Wireless microsensors have enabled new ways to monitor our environment by allowing users to measure spaces previously off limits to research, such as toxic areas, vehicle components, or remote areas in the human body. Researchers, ...
May 14, 2018
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Security
Less than a week into 2018 and we may have already seen the year's biggest technology story. Researchers have identified a security flaw in the computer processors made by three of the world's biggest chip designers, Intel, ...
Jan 5, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
New research from the University of British Columbia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that using halogens—a class of elements that include fluoride, bromine, chlorine and iodine—in a dye-sensitized ...
Dec 20, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
Publishing in Nature, EPFL scientists show how light affects perovskite film formation in solar cells, which is a critical factor in using them for cost-effective and energy-efficient photovoltaics.
Apr 26, 2017
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Robotics
A team of engineers and scientists at Caltech and ETH Zurich have developed an artificial skin capable of detecting temperature changes using a mechanism similar to the one used by the organ that allows pit vipers to sense ...
Jan 30, 2017
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