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'Smart Machine' Enhances Navy Pilot Training
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'Smart Machine' Enhances Navy Pilot Training

Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in flight training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more...

Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future
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Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future

Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...

Putting the Tech in Metrotech
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Putting the Tech in Metrotech

MakerBot Industries' 3-D printers can create everything from jewelry to bottle openers seemingly out of thin air. Now developers are hoping the hip tech company...

Researchers Discover New Class of Battery Materials
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Researchers Discover New Class of Battery Materials

Researchers have discovered a new class of battery electrode materials that will be essential to attaining safe and efficient lithium and sodium rechargeable...

The Energy Efficient Soldier: $15 Million For New Materials
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The Energy Efficient Soldier: $15 Million For New Materials

The Army Research Laboratory has awarded a University of Utah-led consortium almost $15 million to use computer simulations to help design materials for lighter...

Thanks For the Memory: More Room For Data in 'phase-Change' Material
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Thanks For the Memory: More Room For Data in 'phase-Change' Material

Engineers have discovered previously unknown properties of a common computer memory material, paving the way for new memory drives and computer systems that allow...

Rutgers Builds Solar-Powered Computing Center
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Rutgers Builds Solar-Powered Computing Center

Contractors recently installed 16 solar panels atop a roof-top computing facility at Rutgers University. Researchers will use the facility to study how to effectively...

Nanomaterials Could Help Thwart Nuclear Terrorism
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Nanomaterials Could Help Thwart Nuclear Terrorism

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a prototype radiation-detection system that uses nanoscale rare-earth elements and other materials. The system could be...

How Nvidia Can Accelerate the Graphics in Your Apps
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How Nvidia Can Accelerate the Graphics in Your Apps

If you want to create some pretty apps, look to Nvidia.

Firms Try to Turn 'black-Ops It' Into Products
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Firms Try to Turn 'black-Ops It' Into Products

Since the early days of Silicon Valley, rogue engineers and software developers have engaged in "black-ops IT," a tradition of sneaking new technology into their...

World's Largest Digital Camera Project Passes Critical Milestone
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World's Largest Digital Camera Project Passes Critical Milestone

A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has received critical approval from the U.S. Department of Energy, and...

The Robot Revolution Is Just Beginning
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The Robot Revolution Is Just Beginning

When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...

What's a 'computer Vision Specialist' and Why Does Apple Need One?
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What's a 'computer Vision Specialist' and Why Does Apple Need One?

When Apple posted a job listing last week for a "Computer Vision specialist," the tech-obsessed echo chamber began speculating which Apple product line would be...

Microsoft's Design Drive
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Microsoft's Design Drive

 In 2010, Jon Bell was an interaction designer in the Seattle office of Frog Design, the company that created the beige cases for some of the iconic early Apple...

Taking An Innovative Approach to Battery Design
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Taking An Innovative Approach to Battery Design

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway's radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.

New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls
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New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls

A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say that a combination of terahertz electromagnetic communications and CMOS microchip technology could...

X-Ray Technique Reveals Structure of Printable Electronics
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X-Ray Technique Reveals Structure of Printable Electronics

An innovative X-ray technique has given researchers new insight into how organic polymers can be used in printable electronics such as transistors and solar cells...

Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft
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Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft

While many of the boys in Idan Yahya's high school class were buffing up and preparing themselves for selection into elite combat units, this gawky teenager was...

Paper from FiftyThree Hits 1.5 Million Downloads in Two Weeks
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Paper from FiftyThree Hits 1.5 Million Downloads in Two Weeks

Former Microsoft employees who worked on the ill-fated Courier dual-screen tablet and started their own mobile-development house have hit some early success.

Pirates, Beware: Navy's Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd
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Pirates, Beware: Navy's Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd

The Office of Naval Research will begin testing an unmanned robotic helicopter this summer equipped with high-definition cameras, mid-wave infrared sensors, and...
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