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Long After His Accident, Sam Schmidt Takes the Wheel Again Thanks to Project Sam
In the late 90s, Sam Schmidt had a promising career as an IndyCar driver, finishing fifth in the championship in 1999 after taking his first win in Las Vegas.
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Atomic Memory Could Store S Library of Congress in a Dust Speck
It's a memory so small you'll forget where you left it. A new data storage system uses single atoms as computer bits, and could hold the contents of the US Library...
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Ready, Set, Think! Mind-Controlled Drones Race to the Future
The University of Florida last week hosted what it called the world's first drone race involving brain-computer interfaces.
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Feds Seek Public Input on the Future of Iot
The U.S. Department of Commerce is seeking public comment on the Internet of Things.
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A New Number Format For Computers Could Nuke Approximation Errors For Good
Computers have a persistent problem representing fractional numerical values, but high-performance computing scientist John Gustafson has proposed a solution.
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.s. Drops New York Fight with Apple After Gaining Access to Iphone
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday dropped its effort to force Apple Inc to help unlock an iPhone in a drug case in New York after someone provided authorities...
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Europe Plans Giant Billion-Euro Quantum Technologies Project
The European Commission has quietly announced plans to launch a €1-billion (US$1.13 billion) project to boost a raft of quantum technologies—from secure communication...
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The Buzz of Your Skull Can Be sed to Tell Exactly Who You Are
You will know me by the buzz in my head. Biometric systems, which identify people by their physiological features, can use everything from ear shape to walking...
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New Maps Make Aftershocks Look Scarier Than the Main Quake
Aftershocks continue shaking the cities of Kumamoto, Japan and Muisne, Ecuador, almost a week after earthquakes rocked the two cities, frightening residents still...
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Gene-Editing Hack Yields Pinpoint Precision
A painstaking re-engineering of the CRISPR gene-editing system has given researchers the ability to alter individual DNA letters efficiently in a given gene.
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Rules For Cyberwarfare Still nclear, Even as .s. Engages In It
When Defense Secretary Ashton Carter landed in Iraq for a surprise visit this week, he came armed with this news: More than 200 additional U.S. troops are headed...
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Hyper Vision
There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Robotic Consensus
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...
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Zoo of Theories Showcased in Publications on Lhc Anomaly
Hints of a new subatomic particle at the world’s most powerful atom smasher have inspired theoretical physicists to write more than 300 papers in the past four...
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Who's the Michael Jordan of Computer Science? New Tool Ranks Researchers' Influence
Last fall, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, Washington, launched a challenge to Google Scholar, PubMed, and other online search engines...
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Mit's Teaching AI How to Help Stop Cyberattacks
Finding evidence that someone compromised your cyber defenses is a grind.
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New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters
Craters with bright material on dwarf planet Ceres shine in new images from NASA's Dawn mission.
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You Want to Build an Empire Like Google's? This Is Your Os
Google called it Borg, and for many years, it was among the company's best-kept secrets.
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