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Human Arm Sensors Make Robot Smarter
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Human Arm Sensors Make Robot Smarter

Using arm sensors that can "read" a person's muscle movements, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a control system that makes robots more...

Is the $1,000 Genome For Real?
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Is the $1,000 Genome For Real?


Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar For New Hires
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Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar For New Hires

In fulfilling online orders, Amazon.com Inc. is all about expediency. The fewer people involved the better.

China in Race to Build First Code-Breaking Quantum Supercomputer
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China in Race to Build First Code-Breaking Quantum Supercomputer

Researchers in China are pulling out all the stops to create the holy grail of technology — the world's first code-breaking supercomputer.

Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth
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Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth

Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004.

Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
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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.

Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down
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Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down

Depending on whom you ask, the coming year is supposed to be the one during which server chips based on the ARM architecture that is now so popular in smartphones...

The Geeks on the Front Lines
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The Geeks on the Front Lines

Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...

Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
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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...

Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
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Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot

The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer.

Forget Hide and Seek: System Allows Through-Wall, 3-D Motion Tracking
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Forget Hide and Seek: System Allows Through-Wall, 3-D Motion Tracking

New technology developed at MIT uses radio signals to track a person's location and movement through walls and obstructions, pinpointing his or her location to...

Leaner Fourier Transforms
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Leaner Fourier Transforms

A new algorithm developed at MIT can separate signals into their individual frequencies using a minimal number of samples.

Is the Future of the Internet in Iceland?
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Is the Future of the Internet in Iceland?

When you clicked on the link to read this article, your computer, tablet or phone sent a request that traveled hundreds or perhaps thousands of miles at the speed...

Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: ­nrealistic Technology Expectations
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Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: ­nrealistic Technology Expectations

The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn't all bureaucratic.

Lawrence Livermore Researchers Awarded a Billion Supercomputer Core Hours
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Lawrence Livermore Researchers Awarded a Billion Supercomputer Core Hours

Thirteen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have been awarded more than a billion core hours on two of America's fastest supercomputers as part...

Argonne and RIKEN Sign Petascale Computing Agreement
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Argonne and RIKEN Sign Petascale Computing Agreement

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at expanding...

Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead
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Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead

Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.

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Why the ­.s. May Lose the Race to Exascale

In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers—exascale—there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.

What's Next For Gpu Chips? Maybe the Network.
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What's Next For Gpu Chips? Maybe the Network.

Over the last few years it's been interesting to see where in the computing landscape graphics processors or GPUs like those turned out by Nvidia have turned up...

Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey

Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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