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Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

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As the FCC considers a transition to ATSC 3.0, broadcasters tout a low-cost converter box program and whole-home DVR.

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A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...