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Automotive Systems Get Smarter
Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.
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Cyber Policies on the Rise
A growing number of companies are taking out cybersecurity insurance policies to protect themselves from the costs of data breaches.
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...
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Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor
Economics trump performance in a chip with great potential.
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Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child
It looked like a child's playroom: toys in cubbies, a little desk for doing homework, a whimsical painting of a tree on the wall.
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Supercomputing's Super Energy Needs, and What to Do About Them
The power it takes to drive petaflop machines could supply a small city with electricity.
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se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...
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Brain-Computer Link Enables Paralyzed California Man to Walk
A brain-to-computer technology that can translate thoughts into leg movements has enabled a man paralyzed from the waist down by a spinal cord injury to become...
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Pentagon Intrigued By Breakthrough in Cloaking Technology
An academic says he and his colleagues have demonstrated a major breakthrough in the quest for invisibility, and he has the military’s attention.
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Federal Researchers Want to ntangle Internet of Things
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its Draft Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems.
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Protecting Identities in a Sea of Big Data
New research projects by University of Arkansas computer scientist Xintao Wu could help ensure the identities of participants in genomic studies are shielded.
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Clumps of Gold Nanoparticals Can Evolve to Carry Out Computing
Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have found a loosely organized clump of gold nanoparticles can be made to do calculations.
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Watch a Swarm of Drones Build a Rope Bridge
A team of drones has autonomously built a rope bridge, according to researchers at ETH Zurich.
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Rosetta Reveals Comet's Water-Ice Cycle
ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence for a daily water-ice cycle on and near the surface of comets.
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Vw Could Fool the Epa, But It Couldn't Trick Chemistry
For decades, automakers have been caught between building an engine that squeezes a lot of energy out of the fuel it burns and one that has low emissions.
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What Will Personal Computers Look Like in 20 Years' Time?
Experts offer their views of how personal computers will evolve over the next two decades.
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Do Moocs Help?
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) from Coursera can yield tangible benefits to learners, according to a new longitudinal study of open online learning outcomes...
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Forget the Turing Test — There Are Better Ways of Judging AI
Despite the media furor over reports last year that a chatbot had "passed" the Turing test, most artificial intelligence (AI) researchers no longer view the test...
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