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Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?
How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth?
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A 96-Antenna System Tests the Next Generation of Wireless
Even as the world's carriers build out the latest wireless infrastructure, known as 4G LTE, a new apparatus bristling with 96 antennas taking shape at a Rice University...
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How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future
For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years.
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Experimental Surgery Aims to Revive a Paralyzed Limb
Doctors will attempt to reanimate a patient’s paralyzed arm with a pioneering surgery that involves capturing signals from his brain and restoring movement through...
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The Hottest Technology Not on Display at CES: Smart Radio Chips
Beyond the glitz of the International Consumer Electronics Show, the wireless industry faces a fundamental problem: more features and faster data transmission are...
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How To Track Vehicles Using Speed Data Alone
Location is a key indicator of personal travel patterns and habits.
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Thinking in Silicon
Picture a person reading these words on a laptop in a coffee shop.
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Identifying Signs of Chronic Brain Injury in Living Football Players
Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain disorder called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition...
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see...
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Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: nrealistic Technology Expectations
The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn't all bureaucratic.
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Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead
Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.
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Ads Could Soon Know If You're an Introvert (on Twitter)
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.
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The Clever Circuit That Doubles Bandwidth
A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received...
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Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...
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The Secrets of Online Money Laundering
Money laundering is increasingly becoming a cybercrime.
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Graphics Chips Help Process Big Data Sets in Milliseconds
New software can use the graphics processors found on everyday computers to process torrents of data more quickly than is normally possible, opening up new ways...
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
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Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.
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