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Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial...
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How Evolution May Help Build Better Robots
In the real world, animals have evolved the ability to get from point A to B by galloping, crawling, and jumping. Now, robots in the virtual world have accomplished...
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...
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IBM's Watson Tries to Learn...Everything
IBM has given Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute an open-ended three-year charter to improve the intelligence of IBM's Watson software.
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Rice Unveils Method for Tailoring Optical Processors
Rice University researchers have developed a method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors.
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Cracking the 1,000-Core Processor Power Challenge
Researchers are working on solutions to growing power consumption, as mainstream processors are expected to contain hundreds of cores in the near future.
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Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity
Hacking is openly discussed and promoted in China.
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Google Unveils Tornado Crisis-Response Map Effort for Moore, OK
Google's Crisis Response unit created a crisis map Web page to assist the community of Moore, OK, in its cleanup and recovery.
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Marketing to the Big Data Inside Us
Companies market to you according to your shopping habits, your age, your salary, and your social-media activities. In the future, they may be able to advertise...
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Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity
Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the...
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New Technique May Open Up an Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices
A new technique can create high-quality semiconductor thin films only one atom thick.
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Computational Tool Translates Complex Data into 2-Dimensional Images
A new computational method lets scientists visualize high-dimensional data produced by single-cell measurement technologies such as mass cytometry.
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Innovation Could Bring Flexible Solar Cells, Transistors, Displays
Researchers have developed a type of transparent electrode that could be used in solar cells, flexible displays, and future optoelectronic circuits.
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Energy-Efficient Computing Work Earns Science Foundation's Support
Arizona State University professor Carole-Jean Wu is researching how to convert waste heat in computing systems to usable electricity.
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ACM Honors Computing Innovators
ACM's awards celebrate achievements in networks, information retrieval, multi-agent systems, computer science education, versatile compiler technologies, and more...
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Proofs Probable
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
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Deep Learning Comes of Age
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.
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The Future Is Flexible Displays
Manufacturers hint that bendable screens are coming soon, but academics argue that many engineering challenges remain.
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What Will Hackers Do with the New Kinect?
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...
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