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Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers
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Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers

The U.S.'s supercomputing labs are having difficulty finding software developers who can program state-of-the-art machines, according to a recent Daily Beast article...

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Pentagon Fears Iran's Access to F-22 Technology Through Hijacked Spy Drone

Reports coming out from the Pentagon revealed that the United States' military experts and officials are deeply worried about Tehran's access to the RQ-170 Sentinel...

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Gartner Slashes 2012 Global IT Spending Forecast

Happy New Year. IT market-research outfit Gartner has some sour news to start off 2012: It has just slashed its growth forecast for global on tech spending.

Risky Rescue for Crippled Air Force Satellite
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Risky Rescue for Crippled Air Force Satellite

It was an epic space rescue that, in audacity and risk, echoed NASA's campaign to save the astronauts aboard the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission.

Nasa Rover Mission Marks 8 Years on Mars
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Nasa Rover Mission Marks 8 Years on Mars

While people on Earth have just finished celebrating the arrival of a new year, two NASA robots a world away are marking a big milestone of their own: eight years...

Kinect Weighs Astronauts Just By Looking at Them
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Kinect Weighs Astronauts Just By Looking at Them

A body-tracking camera system built into Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor could be used to monitor the weight of astronauts in space, says Eurecom computer scientist...

Social Robotics: Beyond the ­ncanny Valley
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Social Robotics: Beyond the ­ncanny Valley

Social roboticists are developing ways to make robots seem more human like and overcome the uncanny valley, which is the reaction humans have to robotic appearance...

The Next Big Thing(s) in Tech
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The Next Big Thing(s) in Tech

The next big advances in technology include the replacement of desktop computers with smartphones, the emergence of nanotech batteries, and the rise of augmented...

Five Open Source Technologies For 2012
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Five Open Source Technologies For 2012

Five open source projects could become the basis for new businesses and industries in 2012. 

Scientists Create Brain-Like, Massively Parallel Computer from Molecules
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Scientists Create Brain-Like, Massively Parallel Computer from Molecules

If you thought Japan was merely the master of miniaturization, tentacles, and creepy robots, think again: A group of Japanese scientists have built a massively...

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Powerful Pixels: Mapping the "apollo Zone"

Grayscale pixels—up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph.

Smart Guide to 2012: How Best to Test Machine Iq
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Smart Guide to 2012: How Best to Test Machine Iq

AI programs did not fare well in convincing judges at the 2011 Loebner prize competition that they were people. 

Beijing Launches Its Own Gps Rival
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Beijing Launches Its Own Gps Rival

China has begun operating a homegrown satellite navigation service that is designed to provide an alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System and, according...

Carmakers, ­.s. Worry About Hacking of Cars
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Carmakers, ­.s. Worry About Hacking of Cars

Imagine this nightmarish possibility: al-Qaida terrorists remotely disabling the brakes on thousands of cars racing down a Bay Area freeway during the morning...

Revamping Storage Performance
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Revamping Storage Performance

Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.

Congress Funds Exascale Computing
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Congress Funds Exascale Computing

The U.S. Department of Energy recently won full Congressional funding to support the pursuit of exascale computing. 

No More Access to Google's Hadoop Cloud For Researchers
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No More Access to Google's Hadoop Cloud For Researchers

Google announced it is ending its Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, a joint program with IBM and the National Science Foundation that gave researchers access...

Self-Healing Electronic Chip Tests May Aid Space Travel
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Self-Healing Electronic Chip Tests May Aid Space Travel

Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of U.S. researchers, creating a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the...

Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer
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Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer

The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn’t exist.

The Tevatron's Enduring Computing Legacy
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The Tevatron's Enduring Computing Legacy

Few laypeople think of computing innovation in connection with the Tevatron particle accelerator, which shut down earlier this year. Mention of the Tevatron inspires...
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