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Cooling Chips With the Flip of a Switch
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Cooling Chips With the Flip of a Switch

Researchers at Penn State have created a dielectric material that can hold absorbed heat even after the external electric field has been switched off.

Say What You See, Facebook
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Say What You See, Facebook

When Matt King signed up for Facebook, in 2009, he had been completely blind for nearly twenty years.

Scientists Push Valleytronics One Step Closer to Reality
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Scientists Push Valleytronics One Step Closer to Reality

Scientists with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a step toward the practical application of "valleytronics," which could lead to faster and more...

Flagship Brain Project Releases Neuro-Computing Tools
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Flagship Brain Project Releases Neuro-Computing Tools

Europe's major brain-research project has unveiled a set of prototype computing tools and called on the global neuroscience community to start using them.

Heat Transferred ­sing Light at the Nanoscale
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Heat Transferred ­sing Light at the Nanoscale

A research team has demonstrated a strong, non-contact heat transfer channel using light with performances that could lead to high efficiency electricity generation...

Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years

The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.

Apple Still Strong at 40, But Are Best Years Behind It?
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Apple Still Strong at 40, But Are Best Years Behind It?

Apple turned 40 on Friday, and it's a very different company from the audacious startup that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched in a Silicon Valley garage in...

­.s. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival
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­.s. Textile Industry Turns to Tech as Gateway to Revival

Warwick Mills shows the kind of innovative know-how common among American textile companies that have survived the fierce global competition of recent years.

How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence
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How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence

Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper.

Apple Bruised
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Apple Bruised

Did Apple win? Or the U.S. government? Neither did.

Linux at 25: Q&a With Linus Torvalds
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Linux at 25: Q&a With Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds created the original core of the Linux operating system in 1991 as a computer science student at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

Lawrence Livermore and IBM to Build Brain-Inspired Supercomputer
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Lawrence Livermore and IBM to Build Brain-Inspired Supercomputer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will receive a brain-inspired supercomputing platform for deep learning developed by IBM Research based on a neurosynaptic...

Andy Grove's Warning to Silicon Valley
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Andy Grove's Warning to Silicon Valley

The praise this week for Andy Grove, who died on Monday at age 79, has been wrapped up in praise for Silicon Valley, where he was a towering figure in the semiconductor...

AI Hits the Mainstream
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AI Hits the Mainstream

For Robert Welborn, head of data science for the insurer and finance company USAA, 2015 was the year machine learning started to make commercial sense.

'minimal' Cell Raises Stakes in Race to Harness Synthetic Life
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'minimal' Cell Raises Stakes in Race to Harness Synthetic Life

Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.

Graphene Nanoribbons: It's All About the Edges
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Graphene Nanoribbons: It's All About the Edges

Researchers have succeeded in producing graphene nanoribbons with perfect zigzag edges from molecules. This could make graphene nanoribbons the material of choice...

Israeli Firm Helping Fbi to Open Encrypted Iphone: Report
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Israeli Firm Helping Fbi to Open Encrypted Iphone: Report

Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensic software, is helping the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's attempt to unlock an iPhone used by one of the...

Printing Nanomaterials with Plasma
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Printing Nanomaterials with Plasma

Researchers have developed a new method that uses plasma to print nanomaterials onto a 3-D object or flexible surface, such as paper or cloth.

Wrinkles and Crumples Make Graphene Better
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Wrinkles and Crumples Make Graphene Better

Brown University researchers have developed a method for making super-wrinkled and super-crumpled sheets of the nanomaterial graphene. The research shows that the...

Discovery Shows Promise as Silicon's Replacement in Semiconductors
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Discovery Shows Promise as Silicon's Replacement in Semiconductors

Two-dimensional electronic devices could inch closer to their ultimate promise of low power, high efficiency, and mechanical flexibility with a processing technique...
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