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Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact
This month, Intel unveiled a Wi-Fi radio almost completely made of the same sort of transistors that go into one of its microprocessors.
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Breakthrough in Bid to Create First Quantum Computer
UNSW researchers say they have created the first working quantum bit based on a single atom in silicon, which could lead to the development of ultra-powerful computers...
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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Big Data and Its Big Problems
Imagine every thousandth blood cell in your body has a tiny radio transmitter in it.
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Home Sweet Lab: Computerized House to Generate as Much Energy as It Uses
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology recently unveiled a laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical suburban home for a family of four...
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The Machines Are Taking Over
Giving computer programs the ability to educate students like a personal tutor is the goal of Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Neil Heffernan, whose efforts...
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India Plans Fastest Supercomputer By 2017
India's Center for Development of Advanced Computing has drafted a proposal for developing a range of petaflop and exaflop computers over five years.
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Intel Researchers Put Wi-Fi Inside—the Processor, That Is
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner unveiled a pair of technologies coming out of Intel Labs that will...
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It's Official: The Era of the Personal Computer Is Over
As a signpost on the road to the so-called Post-PC Era we’ve been hearing about for so many years, this one is pretty hard to argue with: As of this year, personal...
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Despite a Slowdown, Smartphone Advances Are Still Ahead
Apple's new iPhone 5 has faster chips and a bigger screen, but these improvements lack the dramatic impact the first iPhone had in 2007. However, analysts say...
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A Network to Guide the Future of Computing
The European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation aims to steer and increase European research in the area of high...
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Malware Inserted on Pc Production Lines, Says Study
Cybercriminals have opened a new front in their battle to infect computers with malware—PC production lines.
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Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete
NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock.
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Research Paints Shamoon Creators as 'skillful Amateurs'
Despite seemingly endless pontification, it's still too early to definitively say whether there's a connection between the Shamoon malware and recent attacks on...
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Southampton Engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
University of Southampton researchers have developed Iridis-Pi, a supercomputer made from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego.
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Towards Computing With Water Droplets
Water droplets could serve as bits of digital information for a new type of computing, according to researchers at Aalto University.
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Intel and Hp to Build World's Most Efficient Supercomputer
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard and Intel are developing an energy-efficient supercomputing system for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy...
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Vesta in Dawn's Rear View Mirror
NASA's Dawn mission is releasing two parting views of the giant asteroid Vesta, using images that were among the last taken by the spacecraft as it departed its...
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Mind Control Will Shape Future of Gaming and Cell Phones
In an interview, University of Alabama at Huntsville professor Jason T. Cassibry shares his thoughts about the new technological advances on the horizon.
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