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Robots' Best Teachers Are Other Robots (in Cloud Networks)
Earlier this year, a vaguely humanoid robot served juice to a researcher lying on a hospital bed.
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Sun Sends More 'tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a new "tsunami wave" from the sun as it sails through interstellar space.
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DARPA Demos Lightweight, 94ghz Silicon System on a Chip
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it has demonstrated an all-silicon, microchip-sized system on a chip that runs at 94 GHz.
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Sdsc Assists Researchers in Novel Wildlife Tracking Project
Researchers are using a supercomputer to provide data on the range and movements of California condors, giant pandas, and dugongs.
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China Still Has the Fastest Supercomputer, but the .s. Still Rules
Although China has the world's most powerful supercomputer, the United States produces more supercomputers than any other country.
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Principles Are No Match For Europe's Love of U.s. Web Titans
On weekends, Guillaume Rosquin browses the shelves of local bookstores in Lyon, France.
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From Google to Amazon: Eu Goes to War Against Power of S Digital Giants
Within the salons of the Elysée Palace, along the corridors of the European parliament and under the glass dome of the Reichstag, Old Europe is preparing for a...
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IBM Wants to Make its Watson Supercomputer as Small as a Pizza Box
IBM researchers are developing handheld computers with the power of today's supercomputers.
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Keeping Time By Rubidium at the Naval Observatory
You know when you dial a number, and a man reads you the exact time at the tone? That precise timekeeping starts at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
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Will Workplace Robots Cost More Jobs Than They Create?
The UK unveiled its robotics strategy last Tuesday, revealing a plan drawn up by the Technology Strategy Board that aims to spur the country on towards capturing...
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Ibm: Commercial Nanotube Transistors Are Coming Soon
For more than a decade, engineers have been fretting that they are running out of tricks for continuing to shrink silicon transistors.
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving. Now, it's driving a market that's expected to be worth $50.2 billion by 2020.
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Machines Finally Match Monkeys in Key Image-Recognition Test
There are so many ways that humans are still superior to machines.
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Inside the Secret Building That's Bringing Cell Service To Nyc's Subway
As Hurricane Sandy revealed almost two years ago, New York's 100-year-old subway is not a modern and robust system.
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Google Agitates For a Revolution in Web Development
Google company engineers say Web Components, a World Wide Web Consortium standard designed to help organize complex Web pages, will "change everything."
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Panel Endorses Some Nsa Internet Surveillance
A bipartisan privacy board on Wednesday unanimously adopted its report that endorses some of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs.
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How a Little Open Source Project Came to Dominate Big Data
It began as a nagging technical problem that needed solving.
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The $8.5m Race to Protect Planes From Cosmic Rays
It's an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth.
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