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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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Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain
Henry Markram believes his Human Brain Project can simulate all 86 billion neurons in the human brain as well as the 100 trillion connections among them.
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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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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest For the New AI
There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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Smoke Color Is Key Clue to Analyzing Boston Marathon Bombs
As a team of investigators led by the FBI begins deciphering the bombs that killed three people and wounded 150 more in Boston this week, a key clue is already...
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much.
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Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past
In Issac Asimov's classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory.
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How Google Remade the Computer Science Researcher
John Wilkes spent a year negotiating his move to Google, and when he finally agreed to join the company, he still didn’t know what he’d be working on.
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Hackers Compete to Create the Most Insidious Code
The Underhanded C Conference calls on developers to create software that performs some kind of malicious activity but looks innocuous even under scrutiny.
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You'll Never Believe the Data 'wiped' Smartphones Store
Few things are more precious, intimate, and personal than the data on your smartphone.
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How the Science of Swarms Can Help s Fight Cancer and Predict the Future
The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay.
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The Future of the Internet Is Still Ads—and You're the Inventory
Ads pay for the Internet, or at least for what most of us do online.
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Pentagon's Mad Scientists Want a Tattoo That Tracks Troops' Vitals
In its ongoing quest to measure every aspect of U.S. troops' physiology, the Pentagon's esoteric research enclave wants to develop a durable, unobtrusive device...
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.
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The Big-Data Interview: Making Sense of the New World Order
In April 2003, British and U.S. researchers declared the Human Genome Project complete.
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Massive Fiber-Optic Installation Lights p Library Queries
Getting a glimpse into the curious minds of others has never been so beautiful—or so bright.
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Rodent Mind Meld: Scientists Wire Two Rats' Brains Together
It's not exactly a Vulcan mind meld, but it's not far off.
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