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MIT Whiz Wants to Turn Your Skin Into a Computer Interface
According to Lynette Jones, a senior research scientist in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, your skin has about as many sensory receptors as your eyeballs...
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The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.
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Canadian Team Claims $250,000 Prize For Human-Powered Helicopter
The Canadian AeroVelo team has done what many thought impossible.
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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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Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps For First Time Ever, Feds Say
For the first time, encryption is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps, U.S. officials said Friday.
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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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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
Andrew Ng wants to bring deep learning—an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software into the DIY era.
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CIA Releases Analyst's Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
It took eight years after artist Jim Sanborn unveiled his cryptographic sculpture at the CIA's headquarters for someone to succeed at cracking Kryptos's enigmatic...
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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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Hacking the Drone War's Secret History
In 2008 U.S. troops in Iraq discovered that Shi’ite insurgents had figured out how to tap and record video feeds from overhead American drones. Now you too can...
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This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
The target computer is picked. The order to strike has been given. All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyberattack is prepped...
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Computer Brain Escapes Google's X Lab to Supercharge Search
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...
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Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
Jason Mars is a rarity. He's an outsider with regular access to Google's data centers.
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New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os
For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.
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Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
A recent research paper suggests Google can achieve significant cost savings by using specific processors for particular software tasks.
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