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Nvidia's Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.
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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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Data Highways For Quantum Information
Vienna University of Technology researchers have developed a quantum technique that makes it possible to store quantum information over a sufficiently long period...
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Computer Memory Can Be Read with a Flash of Light
Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing—random-access memory, or RAM—and slow...
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The Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks
Ten years ago, few people would have heard of a social network.
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Why Google Is the Big Data Company That Matters Most
Every now and then, someone asks "Who’ll be the Google of big data?"
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Quantum Invisibility Cloak Hides Objects from Reality
Invisibility cloaks are all the rage these days.
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Study Suggests Second Life For Possible Spintronic Materials
Researchers have made two important changes that will allow them to combine manganese and gallium nitride, which could allow them to create spintronics.
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NIST Researchers Offer Tool to Aid Standards Development, Implementation
Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology are creating a computer-aided method for developing standards.
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How Thoughts Can Control a Flying Robot
It's a staple of science fiction: people who can control objects with their minds.
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New Tasks Become As Simple As Waving a Hand with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control robotic limbs simply by thinking about how to execute those...
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DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search For the Perfect Robot Soldier
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head...
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Atom by Atom, Bond by Bond, a Chemical Reaction Caught in the Act
When Felix Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory set out to develop nanostructures made of graphene using a new, controlled...
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How You and I Could Become Nodes in the Internet of Things
Ever wonder what the network infrastructure of the future will be? Try looking in the mirror.
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Mit's Magic Bag Of Sand
The camera pushes in. And there, near the meridian line, you see a faint scattering of red lights. Something is in the tar. And it's glowing.
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This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet.
Get right up close to Dmitry Itskov and sniff all you like—you will not pick up even the faintest hint of crazy.
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A Camera Without a Lens (and a Sensor the Size of a Pixel)
Cameras as we know them have long been eye-like: a lens captures light and focuses it on film or a detection sensor, just as the lenses in our eyes focus light...
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Hack a Virus, Win a Prize: Scientist Recognized For 'useful' Germ Modding
The inventor of a viral technology behind tomorrow's electric car batteries, flexible touchscreen computers, and non-invasive cancer screening was awarded a $500...
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Is Coding the New Second Language?
It's first period at Harlem's Cristo Rey high school, a private Catholic school for motivated low-income kids.
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