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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...

Artificial Intelligence Has a Big Year Ahead
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Artificial Intelligence Has a Big Year Ahead

Get ready for AI to show up where you'd least expect it.

7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain
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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain

Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.

Cornell Robot Has a Human Touch
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Cornell Robot Has a Human Touch

Escewing motorized means to achieve tactile sensing, a Cornell University group has devised a way for a soft robot to feel its surroundings internally, in much...

The CRISPR Pioneers
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The CRISPR Pioneers

Dr. Carl June's lab at the University of Pennsylvania looks like any other biology research hub.

Donald Trump's Pick For Labor Secretary Has Said Machines Are Cheaper, Easier to Manage Than Humans
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Donald Trump's Pick For Labor Secretary Has Said Machines Are Cheaper, Easier to Manage Than Humans

Fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap as labor secretary, has advocated replacing some human workers with machines...

Flexible Device Captures Energy From Human Motion
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Flexible Device Captures Energy From Human Motion

Michigan State University engineering researchers have created a new way to harvest energy from human motion, using a film-like device that can be folded to create...

Titan's Gpus Boost Subtomic Particle Research
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Titan's Gpus Boost Subtomic Particle Research

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are using supercomputer parallelism to  make computer codes for quantum chromodynamics applications...

Machine Learning Enables Predictive Modeling of 2-D Materials
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Machine Learning Enables Predictive Modeling of 2-D Materials

Machine learning, a field focused on training computers to recognize patterns in data and make new predictions, is helping to accelerate the discovery and development...

Design Your Own Custom Drone
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Design Your Own Custom Drone

A new system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the first to allow users to design, simulate, and build their own custom...

Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.
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Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.

The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about...

What Is 'military Artificial Intelligence'? 
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What Is 'military Artificial Intelligence'? 

We are in an era of existential fear of technology.

Computer Learns to Recognize Sounds By Watching Video
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Computer Learns to Recognize Sounds By Watching Video

Machine-learning system doesn't require costly hand-annotated data.

How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy
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How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy

Next time you stop for gas at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you.

Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change
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Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change

In 1909, the same year that William Howard Taft became president, the arcade game known as skee-ball made its appearance. 

Theory Challenging Einstein's View on Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested
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Theory Challenging Einstein's View on Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested

The newborn universe may have glowed with light beams moving much faster than they do today, according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that...
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