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How Intel Makes a Chip
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How Intel Makes a Chip

Before entering the cleanroom in D1D, as Intel calls its 17 million-cubic-foot microprocessor factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, it's a good idea to carefully wash your...

New Tools Turn Manufacturing Workers Into Robo-Employees
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New Tools Turn Manufacturing Workers Into Robo-Employees

The next-generation factory worker isn't a robot, but a tech-augmented human—a kind of "Iron Man" outfitted with performance-enhancing gear.

First Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Enigma Machine
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First Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Enigma Machine

One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.

Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response
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Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response

Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...

How 'robo Recruiters' Could Affect Your Job Prospects
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How 'robo Recruiters' Could Affect Your Job Prospects

Next time you apply for a job, it could be a computer algorithm deciding whether or not you fit the bill.

Algorithm Could Help Detect and Reduce Power Grid Faults
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Algorithm Could Help Detect and Reduce Power Grid Faults

Binghamton University researchers have proved that the Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) algorithm may be the best tool to help authorities remotely detect and locate...

The Real Reason America Controls Its Nukes with Ancient Floppy Disks
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The Real Reason America Controls Its Nukes with Ancient Floppy Disks

America's nuclear arsenal depends on a surprising relic of the 1970s that few of us may recall: the humble floppy disk.

Fast, Stretchy Circuits Could Yield New Wave of Wearable Electronics
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Fast, Stretchy Circuits Could Yield New Wave of Wearable Electronics

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has created fast, stretchable, wearable integrated circuits, which could enable a more connected, high-speed...

Detroit's Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution
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Detroit's Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution

The cradle of American automotive innovation has in the past decade migrated 2,000 miles from Detroit to Silicon Valley, where autonomous vehicles and other advanced...

Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says
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Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says

Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take...

Rise of the Robots: 60,000 Workers Culled from Just One Factory as China's Struggling Electronics Hub Turns to Artificial Intelligence
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Rise of the Robots: 60,000 Workers Culled from Just One Factory as China's Struggling Electronics Hub Turns to Artificial Intelligence

The manufacturing hub for the electronics industry, Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, is seeking a drastic reduction in labour costs as it undergoes a makeover after...

How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry
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How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry

Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.

1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility

More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...

Algorithms That Learn with Less Data Could Expand Ai's Power
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Algorithms That Learn with Less Data Could Expand Ai's Power

Last year Microsoft and Google both showed that their image-recognition algorithms had learned to best humans.

Tabletop Instrument Tests Electron Mobility for Next Generation Electronics
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Tabletop Instrument Tests Electron Mobility for Next Generation Electronics

Researchers have built a tabletop instrument that can perform measurements that were previously possible only at large national high magnetic field laboratories...

Diamonds Closer to Becoming Ideal Semiconductors
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Diamonds Closer to Becoming Ideal Semiconductors

Researchers have found a new way to dope single crystals of diamonds, a crucial process for building semiconductors and possibly more efficient electronic devices...

Juries 'could Enter Virtual Crime Scenes' Following Research
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Juries 'could Enter Virtual Crime Scenes' Following Research

Virtual reality technology used in the gaming industry could be adapted to recreate crime scenes for juries, researchers have claimed.

Looking Beyond Conventional Networks Can Lead to Better Predictions
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Looking Beyond Conventional Networks Can Lead to Better Predictions

Research by a University of Notre Dame team suggests that current algorithms to represent networks have not truly considered the complex inter-dependencies in data...

To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf
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To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf

The humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what's wanted are more engineers.

Why It's So Darn Hard to Build a Fast Quake Warning System
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Why It's So Darn Hard to Build a Fast Quake Warning System

Geology is not a field known for speed.
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