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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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Computing With Spiders' Webs
Researchers at the universities of Bristol and Oxford in the U.K. are examining spiders' webs to determine their computational capabilities.
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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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Chemists Are First in Line For Quantum Computing's Benefits
This month IBM and Google both said they aim to commercialize quantum computers within the next few years (Google specified five), selling access to the exotic...
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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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Experiments Show Titan Lakes May Fizz with Nitrogen
A recent NASA-funded study has shown how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn's moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles.
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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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Robot Eavesdrops on Men and Women to See How Much They Talk
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a robotic head that analyzes how people interact with each other.
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.s. Science Agencies Face Deep Cuts in Trump Budget
The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health are big losers — but planetary science at NASA stands to gain.
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Creation of Highly Magnetic Material Could Improve Computer Technologies
Researchers in the U.K. have developed a highly magnetic material that could provide fundamental improvements to the performance of conventional computer technologies...
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Cineca's Hpc Systems Tackle Italy's Biggest Computing Challenges
Cineca, the leading Italian high-performance computing consortium, manages a supercomputing resource hub to advance innovations in scientific computing.
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So Long Stiffness: Stanford Engineers se Soup Additive to Create a Stretchable Plastic Electrode
Stanford University researchers have demonstrated how to take a brittle plastic and modify it chemically to make it much more flexible, while slightly enhancing...
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Engineers Devise Two-Way Radio on a Single Chip
Researchers say they have developed a method for transmitting and receiving a radio signal on a single chip.
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In Black Box Algorithms We Trust (or Do We?)
Some issues that arise from the use of algorithms may be due to the data they are fed, rather than their black-box nature.
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Hkbu Scholar Invents World's First 'lip Password:' A Patented Double Security System For Identity Authentication
Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University have developed new technology that utilizes a person's lip motions to create a password.
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