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- You can blank out certain types of background noise and focus on just one conversation using prototype noise-cancelling headphones
- A virtual assistant for surgeons translates text prompts into commands for a robot, offering a simple way to instruct machines to carry out small tasks in operations
- Artificial compound eyes made without the need for expensive and precise lenses could provide cheap visual sensors for robots and driverless cars
- With big announcements about the latest artificial intelligence models this week, tech firms are competing to have the most exciting products – but generative AI remains hampered by issues
- Researchers aiming to create a secure quantum version of the internet need a device called a quantum repeater, which doesn't yet exist – but now two teams say they are well on the way to building one
- If a building is hit with an earthquake or explosives, the entire thing can collapse – but a design balancing strong and weak structural connections lets part of it fall while preserving the rest
- Underwater data centres being installed off the coasts of China, the US and Europe could be disrupted by sounds from military-grade sonar on ships and submarines, or even whales
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