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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Google's Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet
When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank...
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China Sees Cyberwar as Reducing .s. Advantage in Future Conflict
It's one thing to read news concerning the latest report to Congress by the U.S. Department of Defense on China's latest military activities. But with regard to...
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Cheetah-Cub Quadruped Robot Learns to Walk, Trot Using Gait Patterns From Real Animal
Researchers say the Cheetah-Cub robotic quadruped proves that gait primitives from the motion capture of an animal can be adapted to a robot.
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Emerging Technologies at SC13: A Chat With the Chairs
SC13's new Emerging Technologies program will focus technologies that could potentially shape computing and society as a whole.
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Flexible, Networked E-Ink Displays Mimic Physical Documents
Researchers at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris unveiled electronic ink displays that can bend as a form of input.
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Intel's High-Performance, Low-Power Secret: The Haswell Soc
In the semiconductor world, integration is omnipresent, driven by Moore's Law. Integration reduces power and cost while increasing performance. The latest realization...
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New Chief at Intel Aims to Expand Chip Making
Brian M. Krzanich, who on Thursday was named Intel's next chief executive, knows he faces a hefty challenge when he takes over the world's biggest maker of semiconductors...
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Graphene: The Nano-Size Material with a Massive Future
Ever since it was discovered in 2004, graphene has been hailed as a natural wonder of the materials world destined to transform our lives in the 21st century.
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Diamond Shows Promise For Quantum Internet
Today's Internet runs on linked silicon chips, but a future quantum version might be built from diamond crystals.
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20 Years On, the Open Web Faces Challenges
For people of a certain age in the technology industry, one of the ways of establishing a connection with someone is by asking some version of the following question...
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John Reynolds, 1935 – 2013
John C. Reynolds, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor emeritus John C. Reynolds passed away at age 77.
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After Boston: The Pros and Cons of Surveillance Cameras
Even after the identification of the Boston bombing suspects through grainy security-camera images, officials say that blanketing a city in surveillance cameras...
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Indiana niversity Supercomputer Aims For Big Ideas
Big Red II is the fastest supercomputer owned and funded by a U.S. university, and is likely one of the world's 50 fastest.
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New System to Combat Online Banking Fraud
University of Cambridge spinoff Cronto is helping to protect customers against the threat posed by man-in-the-browser Trojan malware.
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Next-Gen SB SuperSpeed to Eliminate Power Cords
Upgrades to the Thunderbolt and USB SuperSpeed specifications will double data transfer speeds and boost power transfer in both directions 10-fold.
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In the Virtual Cockpit: What It Takes to Fly a Drone
Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There's no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to...
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Future Challenges of Large-Scale Computing
Similar processor requirements in high-performance computing, Web servers, and big data will lead to a convergence on heterogeneous multicore processors.
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Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a...
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Scientists Demonstrate Key Component of Quantum Machine
Researchers have demonstrated a quantum bit based on the nucleus of a single atom in silicon, which could lead to mass production of quantum computers.
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