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The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China
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The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China

One afternoon in December, Kevin Geiger was giving one of his regular talks about storytelling in virtual reality.

Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks
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Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks

A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors.

Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)
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Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)

What does 2017 hold for the world of tech and media?

Intel: We'll Be Your Net-Connected, Self-Driving Car's Brains
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Intel: We'll Be Your Net-Connected, Self-Driving Car's Brains

It's go time for Intel.

Watch Out Hackers: Deploying Ransomware Is Now a Crime in California
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Watch Out Hackers: Deploying Ransomware Is Now a Crime in California

As of January 1, the delivery of ransomware is illegal in California thanks to Senate Bill 1137 going into effect.

Electrons 'puddle' ­nder High Magnetic Fields, Study Reveals
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Electrons 'puddle' ­nder High Magnetic Fields, Study Reveals

In a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, researchers used extremely high magnetic fields — equivalent to those found in...

Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?
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Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?

A 3-D printing-like approach to manufacturing may help make stretchable electronics more prevalent, say researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology...

Engineers Create Programmable Silk-Based Materials With Embedded, Pre-Designed Functions
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Engineers Create Programmable Silk-Based Materials With Embedded, Pre-Designed Functions

Tufts University engineers have created a new format of solids made from silk protein that can be preprogrammed with biological, chemical, or optical functions,...

How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar
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How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar

Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite.

The Last of New York's Commodity Trading Pits Are Closing for Good on Dec. 30
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The Last of New York's Commodity Trading Pits Are Closing for Good on Dec. 30

Starting in the late 19th century, commodities traders and brokers crammed each day into New York City's trading pits, shouting, and signaling their way to a deal...

Rewriting the Code of Life
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Rewriting the Code of Life

Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island.

Smart Gadgets Need Security. Startups, That's Your Cue
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Smart Gadgets Need Security. Startups, That's Your Cue

At CES next week, expect booth after booth of smart devices—and a host of approaches to their security.

Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
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Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing

Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.

Peaceful European ­nion Starts to Fund Military Research
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Peaceful European ­nion Starts to Fund Military Research

Faced with a changing world order and buffeted by a slew of political crises and terrorist attacks, the historically civilian European Union is bolstering its military...

Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit
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Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have shown it's possible to make transistors and diodes from advanced semiconductor materials that could perform much better...

Programmers Trade Knowledge on Xeon Phi Processor
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Programmers Trade Knowledge on Xeon Phi Processor

Argonne National Laboratory hosted over 130 IXPUG participants for four days of tutorials, workshops, and talks aimed at illuminating the relatively unplumbed world...

Nvidia Surges in 2016 Using Graphics Chips to Challenge Intel
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Nvidia Surges in 2016 Using Graphics Chips to Challenge Intel

When Paulina Sliwinska, a fund manager at Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co., made the trip to Silicon Valley looking for the next big thing in technology, she...

Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X, on the Future of Ai, Robots, and Coffeemakers
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Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X, on the Future of Ai, Robots, and Coffeemakers

Astro Teller has an unusual way of starting a new project: He tries to kill it.

First Use of Graphene to Detect Cancer Cells
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First Use of Graphene to Detect Cancer Cells

By interfacing brain cells onto graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown they can differentiate a single hyperactive cancerous...

Fast-Track Control Accelerates Switching of Quantum Bits
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Fast-Track Control Accelerates Switching of Quantum Bits

Physicists have described a new framework for faster control of a quantum bit — the basic unit of information in yet-to-be created quantum computers — which could...
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