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Stanford Team Combines Logic, Memory to Build a 'high-Rise' Chip
Stanford University researchers say they have developed a method for creating high-rise chips that could outperform conventional single-story logic and memory chips...
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Disney Research Builds Computer Models to Analyze Play in Pro Basketball and Soccer
Disney researchers used player-tracking data from more than 600 basketball games from the NBA to develop models that can make accurate in-game predictions of what...
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Nasa Tests Software That May Help Increase Flight Efficiency, Decrease Aircraft Noise
NASA has developed air traffic management software that could make flights more efficient. The software assists pilots with precise spacing of planes by delivering...
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The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...
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How to Fool a Computer With Optical Illusions
Computers, like people, understand what they see in the world based on what they've seen before.
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Comet Lander's Location Still Eludes Scientists
More than a month after the Philae spacecraft bounced to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, European Space Agency scientists still have not been able...
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Quantum Physics Makes Fraud-Proof Credit Cards Possible
Researchers at the University of Twente have used quantum mechanics to develop a method for protecting financial data and personal information. The method can confirm...
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Forget Passwords, a Student Research Team Wants You to Log in By Speaking a Sentence
Student researchers at California State University, Fullerton are developing new biometric security technologies, including those based on facial recognition, fingerprints...
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Microsoft to Release Project Orleans as Open Source
Microsoft plans to open source Project Orleans, a distributed computing research framework for building cloud services. The company will release the code under...
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Algorithm Identifies Networks of Genetic Changes Across Cancers
Brown University researchers used an algorithm that analyzes genetic data to identify networks of genes that, when hit by a mutation, could play a role in the development...
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Students' Raspberry Pi Computers to Run on International Space Station
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has partnered with the U.K. European Space Agency and U.K. space companies to offer an Astro Pi competition that will challenge students...
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations.
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Amputee Simultaneously Controls Two Prosthetic Arms with His Mind
Replacement limbs that completely replicate the functions and abilities of real limbs are the current white whale of prosthetics, and we're getting closer: mind...
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Thought Control Makes Robot Arm Grab and Move Objects
A woman paralysed from the neck down can now grab a ball with a robotic arm—just by thinking about it.
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How Disney Is Perfecting Animated Eyeballs
Creating lifelike animated characters is hard.
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Nasa Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a...
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Stanford to Host 100-Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University will spearhead a century-long initiative to study and predict the impact of artificial intelligence in all aspects of people's lives.
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As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep p
Economists and technologists have long said the march of technological progress and increased automation will create new jobs and opportunities that offset the...
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Code2040 Helps Tech Plan For a Non-White-Majority sa
By 2040, the United States will have a non-white majority, a demographic trend that is spurring tech companies to increase the diversity of their workforces. CODE2040...
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