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India to Build 11 New Supercomputers With Indigenous Processors
India's government has approved the building and installation of 11 new supercomputers at research institutes across the country based on indigenously developed...
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Facebook Is Building An Operating System So It Can Ditch Android
Facebook is building an operating system from scratch so that its hardware is not at the mercy of Google and the Android operating system.
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How the Internet Spans the Globe
The modern Internet is made possible by hundreds of thousands of miles of undersea cables.
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City Incentivizes Car 'Connected' Technology for Study
The Columbus, OH, City Council approved a program that will ask 1,300 residents to equip their vehicles with "connected" technology that allows them to communicate...
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Demonstration of High-Speed SOT-MRAM Memory Cell Compatible with 300-mm Si CMOS Technology
A new high-speed spin-orbit-torque magnetoresistive random-access memory cell interoperates with silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology.
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Intel Creates Chip to Control Quantum Computers
Intel has announced a chip designed to control quantum computers by assuming the workload of the many wires that typically connect such systems to controllers. ...
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Autonomy and Automation on the Water
Self-driving and remote-controlled vessels are taking over some duties from human crews.
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Wetlands, Crops Can Mitigate Storm Damage to Coastal Cities
A new computer model shows that coastal cities can avoid some wind destruction from major weather events if they have functional wetland ecosystems and agricultural...
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Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 years of ‘The Art of Computer Programming‘
Knuth is known for introducing the notion of "literate programming," emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers....
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Advanced Technology May Indicate How Brain Learns Faces
Researchers have demonstrated that deep convolutional neural networks operate similarly to the way human brains do, in terms of identifying faces.
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Spying on Hippos with Drones to Help Conservation
Researchers in Australia are using drones to help conservation efforts for hippos.
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2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age
ACM has recognized 58 members by naming them 2019 ACM Fellows for their contributions to areas that underpin the defining technologies of the digital age.
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Researchers Criticize AI Software That Predicts Emotions
The AI Now Institute at New York University is urging a ban on the use of artificial intelligence that automatically analyzes facial expressions to influence hiring...
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Japanese Researchers Teaching Robots to Repair Themselves
Researchers have demonstrated how to teach a PR2 robot to perform simple repairs on itself by tightening its own screws.
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Amazon Rolls Out Quantum-Computing Service
Amazon Web Services has launched a platform that lets enterprise customers explore how they could benefit from quantum computers by developing and testing quantum...
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A World With a Billion Cameras Watching You Is Just Around the Corner
Industry researcher IHS Markit expects the number of cameras used for surveillance worldwide to rise above 1 billion by the end of 2021.
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Hand-Tracking Tech Watches Riders in Self-Driving Cars to See If They're Ready to Take the Wheel
Researchers have developed a hand-tracking system to determine how long it would take a driver to assume control of a self-driving car in an emergency.
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50 Years Later, We Still Don't Grasp the Mother of All Demos
Doug Engelbart didn't just want to show off new technology. He wanted to demonstrate a system for improving humanity.
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Producing Glass with a 3D Printer
Researchers employed three-dimensional printing to manufacture complex and porous glass objects using an ultraviolet-light-cured resin.
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