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A New Quantum Approach to Big Data
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A New Quantum Approach to Big Data

Some problems remain daunting and impractical for the most powerful modern supercomputers. Now, researchers have developed a new approach that would use quantum...

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
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Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief

Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...

Catching Heartbeats with Millimeter-Wave Radar
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Catching Heartbeats with Millimeter-Wave Radar

Researchers at Kyoto University and Panasonic Corp. have developed a sensing system that combines millimeter-wave radar and a signal analysis algorithm to measure...

Defending Your Computer From Cyber-Attacks, Sun Tzu Style
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Defending Your Computer From Cyber-Attacks, Sun Tzu Style

Might the key to defeating malware be the introduction of a bit of chaos?

Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business
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Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business

IBM is not a design company.

Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute
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Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: A new gene-editing technology allows scientists to precisely locate and cut out bits of DNA from live cells in bacteria...

Researchers Go for the Gold on a Single Chip
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Researchers Go for the Gold on a Single Chip

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have created a library of nanoporous gold structures on a single chip that has direct applications for high-capacity...

Explore Galaxies Far, Far Away at Internet Speeds
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Explore Galaxies Far, Far Away at Internet Speeds

Scientists have expanded the number of images that allow users to take a virtual tour of the universe from the comfort of their own computers. The publicly accessible...

Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future
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Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future

There's a little parlor game that people in Silicon Valley like to play. Let's call it, Who's Losing?

Open-Source Gpu Could Push Computing Power to the Next Level
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Open-Source Gpu Could Push Computing Power to the Next Level

Researchers at Binghamton University are using an open-source graphics processor unit (GPU) to push the devices' performance and application.

Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips
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Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips

Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying...

Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign
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Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign

Look—We have no idea how this election will turn out.

Drones Do Donuts, Figure-Eights Around Obstacles
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Drones Do Donuts, Figure-Eights Around Obstacles

Motion-planning algorithms from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab allow drones to fly in dense environments and avoid dozens of objects.

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist
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Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist

Sarah Parcak can see looting at ancient sites—from space.

'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists
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'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists

Kaleigh Clary, a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, drove down to offer a day of free work for the American Museum of...

Scientists Demonstrate Basics of Nucleic Acid Computing Inside Cells
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Scientists Demonstrate Basics of Nucleic Acid Computing Inside Cells

Using strands of nucleic acid, scientists have demonstrated basic computing operations inside a living mammalian cell.

Ibm, Michigan Partner on Advanced Conversational Computing System
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Ibm, Michigan Partner on Advanced Conversational Computing System

The University of Michigan and IBM have launched a $4.5 million collaboration to develop a new class of conversational technologies that will enable people to interact...

Nanodevice, Build Thyself
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Nanodevice, Build Thyself

Researcher into the electronic interactions of molecules could yield information that may one day be harnessed to make molecular building blocks self-assemble into...

Annihilating Nanoscale Defects
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Annihilating Nanoscale Defects

Using supercomputing simulations, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have found a way to miniaturize microchips while producing zero...
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