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Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.
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Why Apple's Swift Language Will Instantly Remake Computer Programming
Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn't mention...
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How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will
Washington DC-area residents with a hankering for lion meat lost a valuable source of the (yes, legal) delicacy last year when a restaurant called the Serbian Crown...
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The Age of Quantum Computing Has (almost) Arrived
Google owns a lot of computers—perhaps a million servers stitched together into the fastest, most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet.
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity
No one ever accused Mark Zuckerberg of standing pat.
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Facebook Introduces 'hack,' the Programming Language of the Future
Facebook engineers Bryan O'Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other.
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Target Got Hacked Hard in 2005. Here's Why They Let It Happen Again
A gang of shadowy hackers tears through the systems of big-box retailers, making off with millions of credit and debit card numbers in a matter of weeks and generating...
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Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.
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The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true.
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Quantum Computer Passes Math Test, But Doesn't Answer the Big Question
Is the world's first commercial quantum computer the real deal or not?
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...
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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life.
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The Internet of Things: Open Garden
When the Large Hadron Collider went online in 2009, most scientists saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to conduct experiments involving the building blocks...
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data
Ram Sriharsha works in the engine room powering one of Silicon Valley's most influential companies. He’s an engineer at Yahoo.
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China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower
Two weeks ago, Jack Dongarra flew to Changsha, China for a meeting with researchers at the National University of Defense Technology, home to the country's top...
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'chinese Google' nveils Visual Search Engine Powered By Fake Brains
Chinese search giant Baidu has served up its first ever visual search engine, which allows users to finally query the web using only images as input instead of...
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