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Electronic Engineering -- New 2D memory device stores data on just a single electron -- Rich McEachran

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Technology -- New 'magnetoelastic' tent generates electricity from wind, body movement and sound to power small devices -- Alan Bradley

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Electronic Engineering -- New AI chip mimics the human brain's capacity for split-second motor control - it solved problems using 10,000 times fewer calculations -- Owen Hughes

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Artificial Intelligence -- Using AI has an environmental impact - here are 4 ways you can minimize it -- Knowable Magazine

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Analysis -- AI found a weakness in one of the world's most studied encryption systems - is your data under threat? -- Carly Page

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Quantum Computing -- Engineers build world's first portable diamond-powered quantum computer - it works at room temperature and can be plugged into an outlet -- Tristan Greene

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Analysis -- No, OpenAI's models didn't go 'rogue' when they broke into Hugging Face. Here's what really happened. -- Carly Page

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Artificial Intelligence -- Startup's 'oscillator-based' AI technology could be 1,000 times more energy efficient than conventional computing -- Adam Shepherd

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Excerpt -- 'A dangerous proposition': How AI is warping the social fabric and the ways we collectively imagine the future -- Mona Sloane

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Opinion -- AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor. -- Pawan Jain

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Opinion -- Computer scientists are rushing to tame AI's voracious appetite for energy -- Katarina Zimmer

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Opinion -- AI images are more convincing than ever - infiltrating journals and undermining trust in science -- Nan Li

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Communications -- Japan hits 6G key milestone with high-frequency speeds topping 100 Gbps -- Roland Moore-Colyer

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Communications -- Could there ever be a worldwide internet outage? -- Abby Wilson

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Communications -- Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through - Oct. 29, 1969 -- Tia Ghose

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Science history -- Science history: First two-way phone call across outdoor lines made by Alexander Graham Bell - Oct. 9, 1876 -- Tia Ghose

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Communications -- Scientists invent 'Pulse-Fi' prototype - a Wi-Fi heart rate monitor that's cheaper to set up than the best wearable devices -- Sophie Berdugo

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Communications -- Scientists develop 'full-spectrum' 6G chip that could transfer data at 100 gigabits per second - 10,000 times faster than 5G -- Rich McEachran

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Communications -- Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system - it's as effective as seismometers, tests show -- Ben Turner

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Communications -- Japan sets new internet speed record - it's 4 million times faster than average US broadband speeds -- Perri Thaler

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Computing -- AI web browsers 'aren't ready for the public,' scientists warn as they highlight massive security red flags -- Peter Ray Allison

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Quantum Computing -- Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion -- Tristan Greene

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Computing -- Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity -- Adam Shepherd

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Computing -- Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world's fastest -- Skyler Ware

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Quantum Computing -- New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness - and tries to turn it into a strength -- Tristan Greene

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Computing -- IBM creates world's first sub-1nm computer chip - cramming 100 billion transistors into a tiny fingernail-sized space -- Tristan Greene

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Quantum Computing -- In a first, scientists translated an entire viral genome so a quantum computer could read and analyze it -- Alan Bradley

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Electronic Engineering -- New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing power -- Rich McEachran

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Engineering -- New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years -- Rory Bathgate

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Electronic Engineering -- Scientists figured out how to shrink huge ultrafast lasers so they fit on a tiny chip ‪‪-‬ the 'holy grail' of the field -- Roland Moore-Colyer

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Electronic Engineering -- New device could make processors run 1,000 times faster without additional waste heat - scientists say it could reduce data center energy demands -- Peter Ray Allison

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Opinion -- It's illegal to repair most of our devices. There's a surprising reason for that. -- Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

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Engineering -- China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test - it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually -- Alan Bradley

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Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyes -- Alan Bradley

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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training technique -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgs -- Sascha Pare

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Scientists found the optimal robot body, and it has 20 legs ‪-‬ watch it scale walls and move through trees -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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China's real-life 'transformer' mech is a giant humanoid robot that can switch from bounding on 4 legs to walking on 2 -- Alan Bradley

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Humanoid robots have outpaced human runners in the half-marathon, beating the world record ‪-‬ here are the secrets to this astonishing feat -- Alan Bradley

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Advanced AI-powered table-tennis-playing robot can match up to the professionals - watch it in action -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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This humanoid robot does all your housework for you ‪-‬ and its makers say it's ready for your home -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbs -- Alan Bradley

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Quantum Computing -- IBM scientists claim they've achieved 'quantum advantage' - and they've dared others to prove them wrong -- Tristan Greene

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Engineering -- High-powered lasers can wirelessly charge drones mid-flight -- Rory Bathgate

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Communications -- Introducing Live Science Pro - a new space to get all the science with none of the distractions -- Alexander McNamara

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Explainer -- 'World models' are the future of AI, but how do they work? -- Edd Gent

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