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Artificial Intelligence -- Powerful new AI model will map the moon's surface in more detail than ever, NASA and IBM scientists say -- Alan Bradley

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Poll -- Do you think Al could ever become self-aware? -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Analysis -- Google scientists removed a critical 'consciousness safeguard' from AI in new study. What happened next? -- Adam Shepherd

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Electronic Engineering -- 'Extreme' transistor can withstand heat of more than 1,000 degrees F - priming it for use in Venus-bound probes -- Fiona Jackson

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Life's Little Mysteries -- How small can a transistor get? -- Ashley Hamer Pritchard

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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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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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Quantum Computing -- IBM's new 'quantum fridges' are nearly 200 times colder than deep space -- Tristan Greene

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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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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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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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Electronic Engineering -- 'Beyond human intuition': AI designs chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could ever imagine -- Fiona Jackson

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

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

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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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Eerily humanlike AI-powered robot enters mass production in China - its makers say it could soon be helping you out at home -- Keumars Afifi-Sabet

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Faster than Usain Bolt? Here's all the records broken at this year's World Humanoid Robot Games in China. -- Alan Bradley

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Scientists build tiny robots without motors that can fly using sound waves alone -- Olivia Maule

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Have your say: Would you trust a humanoid robot with your household chores? -- Olivia Maule

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'Thinking ahead' helps robots complete tasks twice as fast -- Niba @NotesByNiba

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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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Electronic Engineering -- Planting crops in fields of solar panels is more efficient, protects the plants and helps keep workers cool, study finds -- Rebecca Owen

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Artificial Intelligence -- New kind of AI uses a fresh approach to reasoning -‬ researchers say it costs up to 11 times less to run than a leading OpenAI model -- Adam Shepherd

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