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Molecular Motor-Powered Biocomputers
European researchers recently launched a research project that aims to develop a biocomputer based on highly efficient molecular motors that will use a fraction...
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Inside the Hunt For Russia's Most Notorious Hacker
On the morning of December 30, the day after Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 US election, Tillmann Werner was sitting down...
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How Pedestrians Will Defeat Autonomous Vehicles
A recently published paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research explores how interactions between humans and self-driving cars could change the rules...
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Bringing Augmented Reality to Warehouses
Researchers have created PickAR, a headset that uses AR technology to overlay picking information so warehouses can find and process orders with greater efficiency...
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New Extension Improves Inflight Wi-Fi
A new Google Chrome browser extension dramatically upgrades Wi-Fi browsing speeds at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
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How Aristotle Created the Computer
George Boole is often described as a mathematician, but he saw himself as a philosopher, following in the footsteps of Aristotle.
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Stanford Researchers Map Fear and Happiness in Historic London
Researchers have mapped out how readers of 18th- and 19th-century British novels felt emotionally about London.
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Researchers Are sing Darwin's Theories to Evolve Ai, So Only the Strongest Algorithms Survive
Researchers at Google Brain and OpenAI are applying Darwinian principles of evolution to advance artificial intelligence.
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Wi-Fi on Rays of Light: 100 Times Faster, and Never Overloaded
Researchers have developed a Wi-Fi network based on directable infrared light rays.
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Quantum Physics Offers Insights Into Music Expressivity
Researchers have pioneered a new approach to understanding the musical experience by analyzing the vibrato effect using the Filter Diagonalization Method in music...
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X-Rays Map the 3D Interior of Integrated Circuits
Researchers have used x-rays to peer within commercial integrated circuits and reconstruct them in three dimensions.
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A Scientist and a Supercomputer Re-Create a Tornado
Researchers are using supercomputer simulations to study the structure of tornado-producing supercell thunderstorms.
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Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer
Impressive advances in artificial intelligence technology tailored for legal work have led some lawyers to worry that their profession may be Silicon Valley's next...
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How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore's Law
Microprocessors got smaller, faster, and more power-efficient, but as they reach their physical limitations, chip architecture is driving performance gains.
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Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen By 2045
Google director of engineering and ACM Fellow Ray Kurzweil this week predicted the technological singularity will arrive by 2045.
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Researchers Present Early Warning System For Mass Cyberattacks
Researchers have developed an early warning system for massive distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Ancestryai Algorithm Traces Your Family Tree Back More Than 300 Years
Researchers have developed a family tree artificial intelligence algorithm that looks for connections between 5 million baptisms from the end of the 17th century...
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Why We Need Exascale Computing
Potentially everyone on earth could be affected by the benefits of exascale computing, writes Paul Messina, director of the Argonne National Laboratory's Exascale...
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