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IBM Predicts Home Electricity From Your Bike, Mind-Reading Computers
There's something about the year-end reflective state of mind that causes tech companies and institutions (and pundits) to make predictions about what they think...
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Quantum Computing with Holograms
Light is one of the most promising carriers of quantum information. It is robust against decoherence because it does not interact with stray electric and magnetic...
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Quantum Computing Has Applications in Magnetic Imaging, Say Pitt Researchers
University of Pittsburgh researchers are developing a nanoscale magnetic imager made of single electrons encased in a diamond crystal.
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Prof Promises Supercomputer on Every Desktop
When Wu Feng looks at an iPad, he sees something more than a great way to play Fruit Ninja.
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Should We Fire the First Shot in a Cyberwar?
Military bureaucracies around the world are likely to see offensive capabilities as increasingly attractive in any cyberwar, suggests the head of the computer...
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Mosaic Report: Synergies Between Cs, Social Sciences
The NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences recently released a report that assessed the directorate's research investments and identified...
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Dm: Iran Pioneering Drone Production
Iran is a leading country in manufacturing different types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi stressed on Monday.
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Tiny Biocomputers Move Closer to Reality
Several research groups are developing DNA-based circuits that could one day monitor and treat disease from inside the body.
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Data Mining Without Prejudice
A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large data sets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.
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Scientists Break World Record For Data-Transfer Speeds
Researchers are claiming a new world record for data transfers over long distances.
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Quantum Pagerank Algorithm Outperforms Classical Version
Researchers from Complutense University of Madrid have developed a quantum version of Google's PageRank algorithm that outperforms the world's leading search...
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5 Disruptive Technologies Happening Now
From e-books to 3D printing, these technologies are destroying markets and creating new ones.
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Did a U.s. Radar Research Station Disable Russia's Phobos Probe?
Soon after the ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated "powerful American radars" in Alaska. Is there a...
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Quantum Pagerank Algorithm Outperforms Classical Version
Google's PageRank algorithm is the idea that the importance of a Webpage can be measured by the number of important papers that point toward it.
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Putting the 'art' in Artificial Intelligence
Like many kids, Antonio Torralba began playing around with computers when he was 13 years old. Unlike many of his friends, though, he was not playing video games...
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Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera
More than 70 years ago, the MIT electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight...
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What Is the Higgs Boson and Why Does It Matter?
As the world awaits news of the possible discovery of the Higgs boson, there remains a lot of confusion about what it is, why we have had to work hard to find...
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NASA Presents Software of the Year Award
Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), novel autonomy software that has been operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since...
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Quantum Computing Promises New Insights, Not Just Supermachines
Today's quantum computer researchers have a solid blueprint for a new type of computer that could solve certain problems in seconds that would probably take millennia...
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