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A scientist from Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e, together with colleagues from the Italian Institute of Technology and Stanford University, has developed and tested an artificial synapse with living neurons.The researcher, Yoeri…

The government's corona app will appear in Germany this week, German health minister Jens Spahn confirms. According to the German Data Protection Authority, the app makes a 'solid impression'.On which day the German government wants to…

It has been Friday ten years since Lofar came into use. The Low Frequency Array consists of more than one hundred thousand antennas, spread across Europe, and has several discoveries to its name. The then Queen Beatrix activated Lofar…

Companies and institutions that fall victim to ransomware should be more public about this, say Maastricht University and science institute Wetsus. The institutes themselves became victims of ransomware, and are calling on companies to…

Fitbit is adding a component called the Fitbit COVID-19 Study to its mobile app in the United States and Canada. The company wants to investigate whether it is possible to develop an algorithm that can detect Covid-19 before symptoms…

Several supercomputers in Europe have been shut down after security incidents. Software was found to mine cryptocurrency monero. The criminals gained access through hijacked ssh logins.Last week, security incidents occurred at…

Four hundred racks have been delivered to the Japanese research institute Riken for the Fugaku, a supercomputer with chips based on Arm. The system will have nearly 160,000 nodes with 48-core Arm chips.The installation of Fugaku started…

Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs is not going to set up a smart-city district in Toronto after all. Due to the coronavirus and the subsequent economic uncertainty, it has become too difficult to make the project financially viable.Under…

The artificial intelligence research institute OpenAI has developed Jukebox, a model that can fully generate music tracks in various genres, including the vocals.OpenAI publishes 7131 samples of songs created with Jukebox. The songs range…

Scientists at the American MIT want to publish a design for a cheap, relatively easy to make respirator. This design assumes automatic control of resuscitators, which are normally used manually.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology…