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IBM Spending $3 Billion to Rethink Decades-Old Computer Design
IBM plans to spend $3 billion over the next five years to research and develop new fundamental computing technologies, focusing specifically on the possibilities...
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Most With College STEM Degrees Go to Work in Other Fields, Survey Finds
Students who graduate with a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are more likely than other graduates to be employed, but also...
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Bell Labs Transmits Data at 10 Gbits/second Over Copper Lines
Researchers at Bell Labs have developed a technology that enables them to transmit data over traditional copper telephone lines at a record speed of 10 Gbits/second...
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How Not to Build a Brain
Building a brain sounds like a worthy goal, one that makes it seem as though the future is within reach.
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Own Your Own Data
MIT researchers have developed openPDS (personal data store), a prototype system that stores data from digital devices in a single location specified by the user...
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Academics Get Personal Over Big Data
Princeton University computer science professors Arvind Narayanan and Edward Felten have published a rebuttal to a June paper which concluded de-identification...
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Disco-Era Spacecraft Not Dead, Just Out of Gas
A citizen science effort to revive a middle-aged spacecraft has come to a close after the probe's rockets failed to fire.
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Early-niverse Explorer Looks For Answers
On March 17, a panel of four astrophysicists held a press conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., to announce that they...
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MIT Finger Device Reads to the Blind in Real Time
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired...
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How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will
Washington DC-area residents with a hankering for lion meat lost a valuable source of the (yes, legal) delicacy last year when a restaurant called the Serbian Crown...
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Restoring Active Memory Program Poised to Launch
DARPA has selected two universities to initially lead the agency's Restoring Active Memory program, which aims to develop and test wireless, implantable "neuroprosthetics"...
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Microsoft CEO readies big shakeup, drops devices and services focus
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent an email to all employees today outlining the company’s ambitions for the new financial year.
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Scientists Create a New Type of Ultra-High-Res Flexible Display
We are surrounded by imperfect screens.
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Forget Turing, the Lovelace Test Has a Better Shot at Spotting AI
When a chatbot called Eugene Goostman passed Alan Turing's famous measure of machine intelligence in June by posing as a Ukrainian teenager with questionable language...
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Heads Up, World Cup Teams: The Robots are Coming
The RoboCup international robot soccer tournament aims to create a robot soccer team that can defeat the human World Cup champions by 2050.
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Traffic Lights: There's a Better Way
A new means of computing the optimal timings for city stoplights can significantly reduce drivers' average travel times.
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Google Shares Research Findings With Scientific World
Google is sharing some its most influential research papers to expand discussions and observations on topics being studied around world.
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Speeding Up Data Storage By a Thousand Times With 'spin Current'
Newly developed technology allows the spin of electrons to be used to boost the speed of data storage.
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