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One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...
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Single string pull turns flat designs into 3D structures for modular space habitats

When a user pulls the string, the structure moves smoothly into its final 3D form. If the user releases the string, the ...

Scientists Make Material That Can Morph Into Anything With the Pull of a String

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...
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Algorithms Workers Can’t See Are Increasingly Pulling the Management Strings

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey has become a defining warning about putting too much trust in ...
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Jarno N. Alanko defends his PhD thesis on Space-Efficient Algorithms for Strings and Prefix-Sortable Graphs

On Wednesday the 3rd of June 2020, M.Tech. Jarno N. Alanko will defend his doctoral thesis on Space-Efficient Algorithms for Strings and Prefix-Sortable Graphs. The thesis is a part of research done ...
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Pulling the strings: Is our relationship with algorithms evolving?

Algorithms have a huge influence on what we see online, getting personal in their recommendations and seemingly knowing us inside out. Now, some people are consciously adapting their behaviour to ...