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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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Non-Von Neumann Computers Providing Brain-Like Functionality
By 2020, the reign of the von Neumann architecture will begin fading away after 75 years of dominance.
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Stretchable Electronics to Top $1 Billion By 2030
A growing variety of stretchable polymers will help integrate electronics into medical implants, consumer products, and more.
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Battery-Free Cellphones on the Horizon
Backscattering could eventually harness sufficient energy to power small devices.
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Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking
A second-generation academic supercomputer aims to break into the top rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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China's Robot Revolution
The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing nation.
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Solid-State Batteries to Support the Growth of Iot
Compared to lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries don't have the potential to burn or explode, and they can recharge via energy harvesting.
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Beyond Moore's Law
Chipmakers are exploring what comes after they reach the predicted limits of integrated circuit density, complexity.
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Free Quantum Computers Online!
D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.
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Locking Out the Hackers
New hardware, services are aimed at identifying malware before it has the chance to execute.
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Neuroscience Misses the Meaning
Examining each transistor in a microprocessor using techniques for analyzing how the human brain works did not yield anticipated understanding.
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Fixing the Fake News Problem
Unsubstantiated information can spread like wildfire through social media; new tools aim to make it easy to track down sources of misinformation, no matter where...
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Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players
Developers at Carnegie Mellon University create an artificial intelligence that learns, wins.
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Supercomputers to Replace Particle Accelerators?
Moving beyond the need for physical experiments.
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Cognitive Computers Work Like the Human Brain
Neural networks and cognitive computing software emulate the way humans think.
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Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.
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Smart Lighting Follows People
A new low-cost technique allows the use of light-emitting diodes to track people’s locations and gestures within a room.
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Dna as a Data Storage Medium
Will genetic material supplant other substances for archival data storage?
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3d/vr Malady May Have Simple Solution
A simple low-tech solution appears to compensate for the vergence-accommodation conflict.
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