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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Deep Learning Aces Protein Folding
In a long-running prediction challenge, DeepMind's algorithms change the game.
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Algorithms to Harvest the Wind
Wake steering can help ever-larger turbines work together more efficiently on wind farms.
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"when Performance Is Pursued Above All"
Long-overlooked CPU vulnerabilities have come to light.
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Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
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Wind-Driven Data
Green-conscious data centers increasingly will be powered by renewable energy.
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The Computer That Got Down to Business
A U.K. museum's quest to get a 5.5-ton computer up and running is about more than preserving a piece of computing history; it's about understanding the constraints...
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Lowering the Energy Overhead For Data
U.S. data centers are now eligible to receive Energy Star certification, if they are sufficiently energy efficient.
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Lean, Green Machines
Designers of the German supercomputers that won the latest Green500 prize, which rewards not just computing power but energy efficiency, did not set out to win...
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Rewiring Cities For a More Convenient Future
Over the next few years, several Chinese cities aim to add broadband and other services that establish them as "e-cities" or "digital cities." The cities will use...
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