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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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The Next Data Privacy Battle May Be Waged Inside Your Car
Cars are becoming smarter than ever, with global positioning systems, Internet connections, data recorders and high-definition cameras.
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Designing the Next Wave of Computer Chips
A new class of nanomaterials that can self-assemble might enable the creation of nearly molecule-scale circuits.
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Designing the Next Wave of Computer Chips
Not long after Gordon E. Moore proposed in 1965 that the number of transistors that could be etched on a silicon chip would continue to double approximately every...
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When Doctors 'google' Their Patients
I remember when I first looked up a patient on Google.
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When the Future Isn't a Keyboard
Intel says it has seen the future, and it doesn’t include a keyboard.
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Viewing Where the Internet Goes
Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in?
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Reading Your Palm For Security's Sake
They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain.
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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
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Into the Bitcoin Mines
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots
The Schaft robot developed by Japanese researchers dominated the U.S. Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge 2013 Trials.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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Officials Say .s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.
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Google Puts Money on Robots, sing the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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China Launches Moon Rover Mission
China's latest display of ambition in space involves sending a Jade Rabbit roaming across the Bay of Rainbows.
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Nasa Probe May Help Solve Riddle of Mars's Missing Air
NASA's next mission to Mars aims to answer one question: What happened to the air that once made the surface habitable?
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Ibm Makes More Powerful Watson Available via the Internet
IBM announced that its Watson supercomputer will be available as a cloud service to third-party users at a significantly lower cost than in the past, marking the...
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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