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Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing
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Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing

Physicists at Ames Laboratory have discovered a topological metal, PtSn4, with a unique electronic structure that may someday lead to energy efficient computers...

Why the Nba Slapped the Wrist of Matthew Dellavedova
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Why the Nba Slapped the Wrist of Matthew Dellavedova

Something seemed off about Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Matthew Dellavedova during last Thursday night's game against the Brooklyn Nets.

Stabilizing Quantum Bits
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Stabilizing Quantum Bits

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to preserving superposition in a class of quantum devices built from synthetic diamonds. The work could be an important...

Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ­ltimate Test
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Controversial Dark-Matter Claim Faces ­ltimate Test

It is the elephant in the room for dark-matter research: a claimed detection that is hard to believe, impossible to confirm and surprisingly difficult to explain...

Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast Lane
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Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast Lane

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes as small as eight-tenths of a nanometer in diameter can transport protons faster...

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.

Microsoft Strikes Partnership With Banks on Blockchain Tech
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Microsoft Strikes Partnership With Banks on Blockchain Tech

Microsoft Inc. has pulled ahead of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, International Business Machines Corp., and Amazon.com Inc. in the race for supremacy in operating other...

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.

The Future of Wildlife Conservation Is … an Electronic Vulture Egg
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The Future of Wildlife Conservation Is … an Electronic Vulture Egg

The vultures of Britain's International Centre for Birds of Prey don't know it, but they're dupes.

Outshone By Smaller Screens, Pcs Aim to Be Seen as Cool Again
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Outshone By Smaller Screens, Pcs Aim to Be Seen as Cool Again

Dion Weisler, the chief executive of HP Inc., recently held out a bulky laptop that was the pride of 2012. "This is the laptop we had when I came here," he said...

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...

­.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.

Single Wi-Fi Access Point Provides Accurate Localization
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Single Wi-Fi Access Point Provides Accurate Localization

A system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) enables a single Wi-Fi access point to locate users to within tens of centimeters...

Lots of Coders Are Self-Taught, According to Developer Survey
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Lots of Coders Are Self-Taught, According to Developer Survey

More computer programmers are self-taught rather than graduates of coding "boot camps" or industry certification programs run by big tech companies, according to...

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...

Massive Robots Keep Docks Shipshape
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Massive Robots Keep Docks Shipshape

At one of the busiest shipping terminals in the U.S., more than two dozen giant red robots wheeled cargo containers along the docks on a recent morning, handing...

Meet the Largest Science Project in ­S Government History—the James Webb Telescope
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Meet the Largest Science Project in ­S Government History—the James Webb Telescope

Since Galileo first discovered the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, telescopes have gotten larger, more accurate, and more powerful.
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