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Science Silicon can't keep up with our demand for smaller and faster chips, but IBM researchers may have found a way to continue accelerating chip performance with a whole new kind of transistor. As...
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Science Researchers have captured sound from an artificial atom If you talk to an artificial atom, it turns out the atom will say something back to you. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to hear it....
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View ArticleNew York City’s Carriage Horses May Soon Get Microchip Implants
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Technology My so-called cyborg life The author's RFID implant can do a lot of fun things—but it's not as scary or as useful as you might think.
View ArticleWhat Do NYC's Rats Get Up To When We Aren't Watching?
Animals Microchip study could reveal the secret lives of urban rats Rodentologist Michael Parsons set out to research the activities and movements of urban rats by assigning them Radio-Frequency...
View ArticleThe Man Who Defends Hardware From Hackers
Technology Siddharth Garg is one of the 10 most brilliant people of 2016 Hackers can tweak a microchip so when a certain trigger occurs, it throws open the gates for attackers to commandeer—or...
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View ArticleGoogle developed its own mobile chip to help smartphones take better photos
Technology There's a lot going on under the hood of your smartphone camera every time you push the button The Google Pixel 2 does a lot of processing work on each photo as part of its HDR+ platform.
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