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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Europa's Choppy Ocean Looks Friendly to Life
As moons go, Europa is doing pretty well in the looks department.
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Nasa Outlines Ingenious Plan to Resurrect the Kepler Planet Hunter
Back in August, NASA formally threw in the towel on attempts to get its Kepler planet-hunting probe working again.
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Willis Ware, Who Helped Build Blueprint For Computer Design, Dies at 93
Willis H. Ware, an electrical engineer who played an important role in defining the importance of personal privacy in the information age, has died at age 93.
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Scientists Seek Other Scientists For Cosmology Problem
How do you measure something that is invisible?
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Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead
Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.
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Why the .s. May Lose the Race to Exascale
In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers—exascale—there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.
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Graphene: The Quest For Supercarbon
Mr G gazes out from a recruitment poster hanging in an engineering building in Cambridge, U.K.
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Milestone Could Help Magnets End Era of Computer Transistors
Magnetic switches could one day replace conventional transistors at the core of modern electronics.
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Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
Researchers have found unexpected behavior in ferroelectric materials, supporting a new approach to information storage and processing.
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The Good Judgment Project
A team of researchers tries to determine the best approach to predicting world events by making a game out of it.
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The Brain's Crowdsourcing Software
Neuroscientists are discovering how groups of cells in the human brain cooperate to produce certain results, in a manner similar to crowdsourcing software.
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Nasa Probe May Help Solve Riddle of Mars's Missing Air
NASA's next mission to Mars aims to answer one question: What happened to the air that once made the surface habitable?
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A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
It's a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
"Qubits" of information encoded in a silicon system persisted for almost 100 times longer than ever before.
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Will Ibm's Watson sher in a New Era of Cognitive Computing?
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.
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Blinded By the Light
The probe sails through space, traveling the distance of the LA-to-Chicago red-eye in a minute.
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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