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Google ­ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
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Google ­ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave

At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...

Thin-Film Transistors Raise Hopes for Flexible Screens
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Thin-Film Transistors Raise Hopes for Flexible Screens

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have created the world's thinnest flexible 2-D transparent thin-film transistors.

Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet
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Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet

Brewster Kahle is quick to point out that we are not standing inside a former Scientology church.

Growing Graphene
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Growing Graphene

Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have come up with a new way of producing sheets of graphene, in a process that lends itself to scalable manufacturing...

The Trouble With IBM
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The Trouble With IBM

In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA.

'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?

The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.

Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit

My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...

Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State
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Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State

A team of researchers has produced a detailed visualization of how sodium manganese dioxide behaves during charging and discharging, elucidating an exotic molecular...

Nasa Lets Enthusiasts Reboot Zombie 1970s Spacecraft
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Nasa Lets Enthusiasts Reboot Zombie 1970s Spacecraft

A dormant spacecraft will swing past Earth in August, and private space flight enthusiasts have plans to put it back to work.

The Age of Quantum Computing Has (almost) Arrived
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The Age of Quantum Computing Has (almost) Arrived

Google owns a lot of computers—perhaps a million servers stitched together into the fastest, most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet.

Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander
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Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander

NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review...

New Lithium Battery Created in Japan
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New Lithium Battery Created in Japan

A team of researchers at Tohoku University has created a new type of lithium ion conductor for future batteries that could be the basis for a new generation of...

Forging a Qubit to Rule Them All
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Forging a Qubit to Rule Them All

Peering into his cabinet of curiosities on a recent spring day, Bob Willett, a scientist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., nimbly plucked a tiny black crystal...

Liberating Devices From Their Power Cords
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Liberating Devices From Their Power Cords

Structrual supercapacitors open the door to a whole new world of energy storage.

My Duolingo Learning App Can Reshape Education
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My Duolingo Learning App Can Reshape Education

Duolingo users are making new courses for people who speak Asian languages like Chinese and Hindi. How does that work?

Tackling the Limits of Touch Screens
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Tackling the Limits of Touch Screens

Touch screens are ubiquitous on tablets and smartphones, but their flat glass surfaces can hinder close reading and accurate typing.

IBM's Watson Gains Presence at Top Technical ­niversities
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IBM's Watson Gains Presence at Top Technical ­niversities

IBM recently announced it is partnering with several top U.S. technology universities to launch cognitive computing courses that give students access to its Watson...

A Sad Day
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A Sad Day

We lost Nereus today

3D Printing Reveals the Power of Shark Skin
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3D Printing Reveals the Power of Shark Skin

Viewed up close, a shark's skin bristles with tiny teeth or "denticles" which aid swimming.

Google's Self-Driving Car Turns Out to Be a Very Smart Ride
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Google's Self-Driving Car Turns Out to Be a Very Smart Ride

A white Lexus hybrid SUV inches to the left, creating a slightly wider buffer as it passes a bicyclist in the bike lane on a busy and unseasonably hot Tuesday afternoon...
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