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New System Allows Optical 'deep Learning'
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New System Allows Optical 'deep Learning'

A team of researchers has developed a new approach to "deep learning" computations using light instead of electricity, which they say could vastly improve the speed...

Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future
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Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future

The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical...

'tech Cities 1.0' Report Ranks Silicon Valley's Rivals
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'tech Cities 1.0' Report Ranks Silicon Valley's Rivals

The Tech Cities 1.0 report ranks U.S. cities based on GDP, jobs, economic and commercial real estate activity, and other metrics.

How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters
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How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters

The opening chords of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" rocked a hotel ballroom in New York City as a nattily dressed British man strode onstage...

Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better
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Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better

To distill a clear message from growing piles of unruly genomics data, researchers often turn to meta-analysis—a tried-and-true statistical procedure for combining...

New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing
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New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing

People with Parkinson's disease may show hints of motor difficulty years before an official diagnosis, but current methods for catching early symptoms require clinic...

New Software Needed to Support a New Kind of Processor
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New Software Needed to Support a New Kind of Processor

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are designing software for a DARPA-funded processor currently in development that can tackle unstructured data...

The Tech World Is Rallying Around a Young Developer Who Made a Huge, Embarrassing Mistake
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The Tech World Is Rallying Around a Young Developer Who Made a Huge, Embarrassing Mistake

On the first day at a first salaried job out of college, a junior software developer's copy-and-paste error inadvertently erased all data from the company's production...

The Art of Exoplanets
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The Art of Exoplanets

The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space—to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded...

A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists
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A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists

In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.

Overcoming the Trust Barrier in Nuclear Weapons Verification Measurements
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Overcoming the Trust Barrier in Nuclear Weapons Verification Measurements

Sandia National Laboratories physicist Peter Marleau has developed a method for verifying warhead attributes without revealing sensitive design information.

Scientists Create a 'tongue' That Taste Tests Whisky
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Scientists Create a 'tongue' That Taste Tests Whisky

Scientists from Germany's Heidelberg University say they've created sensor arrays that, acting like a tongue, can distinguish between 30 different types of whiskys...

Chinese Exam Authorities ­se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats
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Chinese Exam Authorities ­se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats

Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...

The AI Doctor Orders More Tests
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The AI Doctor Orders More Tests

Few U.S. industries are growing as fast as health care, but the big public-cloud companies—Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google—have struggled to crack the $3.2 trillion...

'charliecloud' Simplifies Big Data Supercomputing
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'charliecloud' Simplifies Big Data Supercomputing

An 800-line block of code helps users maintaining access to the performance and functionality of Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance supercomputers...

MIT Tops Qs World University Rankings
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MIT Tops Qs World University Rankings

For the sixth year running, MIT sits atop the 2018 QS World University Rankings. Notable developments include six Chinese universities in the top 100 for the first...

Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts
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Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts

It started about seven years ago. Iran's top nuclear scientists were being assassinated in a string of similar attacks: Assailants on motorcycles were pulling up...

Software Tool to Detect Fake Online Profiles
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Software Tool to Detect Fake Online Profiles

People who use fake profiles online could be more easily identified, thanks to a new tool developed by computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh.

Spintronic Switch Pitched as Alternative Computing Paradigm
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Spintronic Switch Pitched as Alternative Computing Paradigm

A researcher at UT Dallas has designed a spintronic switch made solely from carbon that might one day replace the silicon transistors that power today's electronic...

The Head of the U.s. Patent Office Has Abruptly Resigned
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The Head of the U.s. Patent Office Has Abruptly Resigned

America's top patent and trademark official has abruptly resigned from her post.
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