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Oak Ridge Morphing Jaguar Supercomputer Into 10+ Petaflop Titan
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is upgrading the Jaguar supercomputer, which is currently the most powerful system in the United States...
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Behold the Cheetah Robot. The Singularity Is Nigh!
Big defense budgets during the aughts financed the deployment of thousands of robots, including unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles, to Iraq and Afghanistan...
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Pushing the Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence
Boston University Neuromorphics Laboratory researchers are developing an artificial intelligence-based robotics technology that can sense, learn, and adapt.
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Ibm's Molecular Images May Help Nanoscale Circuits
IBM researchers have succeeded in imaging how charge is distributed inside a single molecule, a breakthrough that could lead to nanometer-scale circuits.
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CeBIT: Robot Obeys to Commands and Gestures
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology will present technology innovations designed to augment...
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IBM Touts Quantum Computing Breakthrough
IBM scientists say they achieved a major advance in quantum computing that will enable engineers to start creating a full-scale quantum computer.
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Tiny 3D Chips
Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are small devices with huge potential. Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size—the diameter of a human...
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World's Most Massive Supercomputer Needed For Colossal Space Telescope
The International Center for Radio Astronomy Research is working with the Canadian Astronomical Data Center to develop systems that will work with the Square Kilometer...
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Drexel Engineering Research Brings Seven Adult-Sized Humanoid Robots Together in the .s. For the First Time
Drexel University recently celebrated National Engineers Week by presenting seven adult-sized humanoid robots made by the HUBO Lab.
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Facebook: The Wimps Will Inherit the Data Center
Unlike Google, Facebook believes the wimps have a future in the data center. As variousacademics and free-thinking startups seek to reinvent the server using ultra...
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Computer Modeling: Brain in a Box
A proposal by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology scientist Henry Markram to build a supercomputer model integrating all knowledge about the human brain is one...
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Seven Equations That Rule Your World
The alarm rings. You glance at the clock. The time is 6.30 am. You haven't even got out of bed, and already at least six mathematical equations have influenced...
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IBM Says Future Computers Will Be Constant Learners
Tomorrow's computers will constantly improve their understanding of the data they work with, which will help them provide users with more appropriate information...
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The Industrial Robot Revolution
A dramatic shift in how robots are made and perceived is leading to their widespread adoption and use.
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Computing With Magnets
Researchers are finding ways to develop ultra-efficient and nonvolatile computer processors out of nanoscale magnets. A number of obstacles, however, stand in the...
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Avi Rubin on Hacking All Sorts of Devices
Avi Rubin is the technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and in this talk from the TEDxMidAtlantic conference in November...
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Cybersecurity Research Gets Boost in 2013 Budget Request
President Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request prioritizes basic research and development in cybersecurity at the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland...
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NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.
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Intel Chefs Bake Wifi Into Mobile Chips
Researchers at Intel have come up with a way to make WiFi faster and more energy efficient.
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