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A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test
The long-sought quantum computer, a machine potentially far ahead of today's best supercomputers, is almost as hard to define as it is to build.
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Big Data from Cheap Phones
At a computer in her office at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, epidemiologist Caroline Buckee points to a dot on a map of Kenya's western highlands...
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China's Cyberspies Outwit Model For Bond's Q
Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America is known for spy-world connections and an eye-popping product line.
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Apple: An End to Skeuomorphic Design?
Why do most smartphones make a clicking noise, like a camera shutter closing, when you take a picture with them? Why do the virtual pages of a book on a tablet...
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Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite
On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO...
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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest For the New AI
There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.
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Smartphones Put a Translator in Your Pocket
The days of madly flipping through bilingual phrase books while trying to converse with somebody in another language is fast giving way to a technological alternative...
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My Big Fat European Family: What Genomics Tell s About Shared Ancestors
Last month, a trio of engineers debuted an app that allows Icelanders to determine if they’re actually related to a potential date.
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Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans By 2100, Experts Say
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords?
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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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Nasa's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets.
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Robots Able to Reach Through Clutter With Whole-Arm Tactile Sensing
A new robot control method works with robotic joints and tactile sensing, keeping a robot's arm flexible and giving it a sense of touch across its entire arm.
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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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Here's How Smartphones, Tablets, and Huge Databases Will pend Market Research
If you're tired of those annoying 8 p.m. phone calls asking questions about where you shop, or of carrying an Arbitron sensor to provide radio ratings, your omnipresent...
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Why Fbi and CIA Didn't Connect the Dots
The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings.
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How Today's Sensors Could Make Tomorrow's Cars Safer
Driverless cars haven’t hit the roads yet, but computers are already helping to slow down or stop a car in situations when a crash is imminent.
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After an iPhone Is Snatched, a High-Speed Chase
The woman was talking on her iPhone, and never saw coming her induction into a large and growing subset of crime victims.
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How Facebook Designs the 'perfect Empty Vessel' For Your Mind
One day in March, I was sitting across from Facebook's design director, Kate Aronowitz, at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park when she told me, "It takes a lot of work...
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