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NASA appoints 1st AI chief to keep agency on 'the cutting edge'
By Mike Wall published
NASA has appointed its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer, a move designed to ensure that the agency keeps up with the vital and rapidly evolving tech.
Scientists could make blazing-fast 6G using curving light rays
By Roland Moore-Coyler published
Researchers have discovered a way to curve data-carrying terahertz signals around obstacles, paving the way for ultrafast 6G.
DARPA's autonomous 'Manta Ray' drone can glide through ocean depths undetected
By Sascha Pare published
Northrop Grumman Corporation has built its Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle, which will operate long-duration missions and carry payloads into the ocean depths in partnership with DARPA.
'World's purest silicon' could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future.
'Warp drives' may actually be possible someday, new study suggests
By Mike Wall published
A new study provides some theoretical underpinning to sci-fi warp drives, suggesting that the superfast propulsion tech may not forever elude humanity.
SpaceX's Starship could help this start-up beam clean energy from space. Here's how (video)
By Tereza Pultarova published
SpaceX's Starship will make space-based solar power cheaper than nuclear, gas and coal-based electricity generation, start-up Virtus Solis believes.
Private moon lander will carry Nokia's 4G cell network to the lunar surface this year
By Stefanie Waldek published
Nokia is developing a LTE/4G communications system for the moon, and its first piece of the network might launch as soon as late this year.
Highly precise atomic clocks could soon get even better. Here's how
By Robert Lea published
Superradiant atoms could help us measure time more precisely than ever before, a theory developed with the aid of the great-grandson of the "father of the atom," Niels Bohr.
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