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Ibm's New Chips Compute More Like We Do
A microchip with about as much brain power as a garden worm might not seem very impressive, compared with the blindingly fast chips in modern personal computers...
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Beyond Cell Phone Wallets, Biometrics Promise Truly Wallet-Free Future
Ever since Google announced that its Android phones would be equipped with a "digital wallet" that allows users to pay for things simply by touching their phone...
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Making Stuff with Molecular Precision
For more than a decade, scientists have been touting the promise of nanomaterials as a source of new and better products, from stronger structural materials to...
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A Network For Wild Experimentation
Internet2 and the Energy Sciences Network have built an experimental networking testbed using dormant dark fiber networking resources. The testbed will be used...
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Can We Make Machines Listen More Carefully?
You probably use voice recognition technology already, if in a limited capacity. Maybe you use Google's voice-activated search, or take advantage of its (somewhat...
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Replacing Lost Abilities with a Robot
Henry Evans recently shaved himself for the first time since a stroke left him mute and partly paralyzed 10 years ago. His achievement came thanks to researchers...
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A New Direction for Digital Compasses
Cell phones and many other mobile devices now come packed with sensors capable of tracking them as they move. The digital compasses, gyroscopes, and accelerometers...
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Could This Brain Implant Revive Paralyzed Limbs?
In the annals of great oxymorons, "non-invasive brain implant" would surely rank up there. Misnomer or not, the University of Michigan is touting just such a...
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A Preview of Future Disk Drives
A new type of data storage technology, called phase-change memory, has proven capable of writing some types of data faster than conventional flash based storage...
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How Robots Will Beat Humans at Billiards
Once a year, at the International Computer Olympiad, teams pit their AI software against others' in a variety of nerd-appropriate sports: chess, go, backgammon...
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Tapping Quantum Effects For Software that Learns
In a bid to enable computers to learn faster, defense company Lockheed Martin has bought a system that uses quantum mechanics to process digital data.
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How Three-Dimensional Transistors Went from Lab to Fab
Intel's new three-dimensional transistor design, announced last week, is the culmination of more than a decade of research and development work that began in...
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Unthinking Machines
An artificial intelligence panel discussion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's recent Brains, Minds and Machines symposium called for a return to the...
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Like Europa, Titan May Have a Giant Subsurface Ocean
In the seven years Cassini has spent orbiting Saturn, the spacecraft has sent back mountains of data that has changed our view of the ringed planet and its moons...
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Reprogrammable Chips Could Enable Instant Gadget Upgrades
Obsolescence is the curse of electronics: no sooner have you bought a gadget than its hardware is outdated. A new, low cost type of microchip that can rearrange...
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Busting the Botnets
They're the scourge of the Internet—networks containing thousands or even millions of virus-infected, remote-controlled PCs. These so-called "botnets" send out...
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Speedier Nanotube Circuits
Stanford University researchers recently expanded on an earlier study involving the development of faster nanotube circuits, which could lead to their use in complex...
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Dialing with Your Thoughts
Researchers in California have created a way to place a call on a cell phone using just your thoughts. Their new brain-computer interface is almost 100 percent...
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A Browser that Speaks Your Language
Early adopters can now get a sneak peek at the future of the Web by downloading the latest prerelease, or "beta," version of Chrome, Google's Web browser. One...
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