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Google's Quantum Computer Flunks Landmark Speed Test
Google's quantum revolution is still in the slow lane.
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Seeing Things: A New Transparent Display System Could Provide Heads-up Data
Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications—such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield...
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Superconducting Spintronics Pave Way For Next-Generation Computing
Researchers say they have demonstrated that supercomputers could be used as an energy-efficient source for spin-based devices.
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Natural 3D Counterpart to Graphene Discovered
Researchers have discovered that sodium bismuthate can exist as a form of quantum matter called a three-dimensional topological Dirac semi-metal.
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Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence
MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...
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Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality
Geoffrey Hinton was in high school when a friend convinced him that the brain worked like a hologram.
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Cyberwar Surprise Attacks Get a Mathematical Treatment
Two University of Michigan professors have written a mathematical model that could help predict the timing of cyberattacks.
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Moth Drone Stays Rock Steady in Gale-Force Winds
They might not seem at all stable as they batter into light bulbs but moths have inspired an autopilot for drones.
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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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'Invisibility' Materials Could Do Computer's Work
Metamaterials, which can alter the properties of light waves often to render an object invisible, also could carry out mathematical operations.
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This Company Sold Google a Quantum Computer. Here's How It Works.
I thought it would be interesting to hear from D-Wave, a start-up that has raised more than $130 million in venture capital and employs over 100 people.
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Confused About the Nsa's Quantum Computing Project? This MIT Computer Scientist Can Explain.
My Washington Post colleagues have reported on a National Security Agency program to to build a quantum computer.
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Designing the Next Wave of Computer Chips
Not long after Gordon E. Moore proposed in 1965 that the number of transistors that could be etched on a silicon chip would continue to double approximately every...
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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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Hubble Telescope Reveals Deepest View of the Universe Yet
The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed farther into the universe than any observatory before, producing the first of six new "deep field" images that show objects...
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New Algorithm Can Dramatically Streamline Solutions to the 'max Flow' Problem
Finding the most efficient way to transport items across a network like the U.S. highway system or the Internet is a problem that has taxed mathematicians and computer...
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Sculpting Geometry
Carlo Séquin lives in a world of impossible objects and mind-bending shapes.
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Does Bitcoin Have a Future in Politics?
Representative Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) is no stranger to provocative proposals.
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