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Quantum Computer Firm D-Wave Claims Massive Performance Boost
D-Wave Systems, which makes computers with some quantum properties, claims its latest device, the D-Wave 2X, is up to 15 times faster than regular PCs. As with...
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How Apple's Force Touch Could Change the Way You se Your Next Iphone or Ipad
Pressure-sensitive screens, haptic feedback: Why should you care?
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Fbi Wants Better Automated Image Analysis For Tattoos
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to find a better way to search for matching tatoos...
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Going Solid-State Could Make Batteries Safer and Longer-Lasting
Researchers say they have developed a solution to the problem of lithium-ion batteries overheating and burning that also would extend battery life.
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Setting Ground Rules For Nanotechnology Research
U.S. researchers led by Duke University faculty have produced two new studies to lay the groundwork for the emerging discipline of nanoinformatics.
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Robotics Research at mass Lowell That Could Change the World--Really
University of Massachusetts Lowell researcher Holly Yanco will collaborate on several projects designed to help save lives and help people with mobility issues.
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Nasa: California Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
As Californians continue pumping groundwater in response to the historic drought, the California Department of Water Resources today released a new NASA report...
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Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network
Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...
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New Optical Chip Lights p the Race For Quantum Computer
Researchers say they have developed a multipurpose, reprogrammable optical chip that can carry out in hours experiments that previously would have taken months.
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Quantum Computing Advance Locates Neutral Atoms
Pennsylvania State University researchers have developed a method for addressing individual neutral atoms without changing surrounding atoms.
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Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution
Robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs.
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Ibm's 'rodent Brain' Chip Could Make Our Phones Hyper-Smart
IBM researchers say they have built the digital equivalent of a rodent brain using 48 TrueNorth chips, an experimental processor designed to emulate neurons.
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Researchers Tinker With Flying, Rolling Rfid-Sensorized Robots
A team of researchers have developed a prototype robot-based environmental-measuring system from commercially available components.
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
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Superconductivity Record Sparks Wave of Follow-p Physics
Hydrogen sulfide—the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs—conducts electricity with zero resistance at a record high temperature of 203 kelvin (–70...
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Georgia Tech Finds 11 Security Flaws in Popular Internet Browsers sing New Analysis Method
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have received $100,000 from Facebook to continue research that will help make the Internet safer.
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Natural Selection: Mama Robot Builds Self-Evolving Baby-Bots
The theory of natural selection popularised by Charles Darwin has now been demonstrated in robots.
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Atlas, a Humanoid Robot, Takes a Walk in the Woods
Scientists trying to build a better robot are encouraged by the latest steps, however tentative, of a humanoid named Atlas.
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Will Barbie Pass the Turing Test?
Startups are beginning to empower toys with child-friendly speech recognition technology.
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