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A Healthy Dose of AI
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Surprise Comes Out of Black-Hole Studies: Error-Correcting Codes
Attempts to reconcile quantum information and gravity have yielded new types of error-correcting codes for proposed quantum computers.
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Optical Fibers Getting Full
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
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Silicon Photonics: Ready to Go the Distance?
Processes for making CMOS chips are adapted for optical components.
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Neuromorphic Computing Gets Ready For the (Really) Big Time
A technology inspired by biological principles but 'steamrolled for decades' prepares to take off as Moore's Law approaches its long-anticipated end.
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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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Micromedicine to the Rescue
Medical researchers have long dreamed of "magic bullets" that go directly where they are needed. Now micromedicine and nanotechnology are making a range of molecules...12