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Inventing the Future of Computing
As researchers confidently predict a future of faster-than-ever transformations in computing, they are creating chips that learn and respond as they gain experience...
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Japan Pushes World's Fastest Computer Past 10 Petaflop Barrier
The Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. On Wednesday, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced the supercomputer...
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New Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'quantum Information Systems'
Purdue University researchers are developing a new hybrid technology that could lead to a new approach to quantum computing. The technology would use metamaterials...
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Pitt Research Team Finds Ways to Reduce Computing Energy Consumption While Saving Money
University of Pittsburgh researchers are developing computer memory technology that could lower energy consumption associated with computer data storage. They...
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How to Predict the Future
Imagining the future, we naturally think of it as a different place to the one we live in now. It is populated with new technologies, advanced science, and perhaps...
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H.p. Builds Servers With Cellphone Chips
Hewlett-Packard announced on Tuesday a new design for some of the world's largest computer centers and says it could reduce power consumption in some cases by...
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How Your iPhone Chip Will Reinvent the Internet Data Center
Jonathan Heiliger is the kind of guy you want running your data center.
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Arm Cto Predicts Chips the Size of Blood Cells
In less than a decade, that smartphone you're holding could have 32 times the memory, 20 times the bandwidth and a microprocessor core no bigger than a red blood...
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Searching For Balloons in a Social Network
In the process of winning DARPA's Red Balloon Challenge, the MIT researchers collected and analyzed a large amount of data on the size and scope of Internet connections...
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Quantum Keys Let Submarines Talk Securely
Submarines must be able to talk securely with remote naval bases while remaining submerged. Could quantum communications allow them to pull off this technically...
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Filling Space With Polyhedra
Salvatore Torquato’s unique space-packing method has implications in information theory and materials science.
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Headless, Humanoid Robot Preps For Army Duty
Sauntering toward you like a mechanized zombie is the Army’s newest recruit: a robot with a blinking red light where its head should be.
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A Deeper Look Into Space
NASA hopes the James Webb Space Telescope, which can detect ancient light that its predecessors can’t, will reveal more information about the origins of the universe...
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In Surprise, China nveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States...
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The Genius of Jobs
One of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue.
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IBM Simulates 4.5% of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain
Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world...
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Microsoft Sees Screens Everywhere in Futuristic Video
Say what you will about Microsoft's execution in developing cool products and services consumers want, where rivals such as Apple and Google have stolen a beat...
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Why Cgi Humans Are Creepy, and What Scientists Are Doing About It
A century ago, psychologists identified "the uncanny" as an experience that seems familiar yet foreign at the same time, causing some sort of brain confusion...
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