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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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More Design Hobbyists, Entrepreneurs Use 3D Printing
Matt Sullivan, a retired soldier, still has trouble explaining his right leg to strangers.
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Intel Ponders Solar-Powered CP Tech in Graphics, Memory
Intel is working to extend its experimental solar-powered processor technology to hardware such as graphics processors, memory, and floating point units.
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in se Today
Large sections of the transportation and military infrastructure, some modern businesses, and computer programmers still use technology that has not been updated...
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The DIY Copyright Revolution
It is something of a fluke that copyright law has become so intertwined with our online lives. For most people, the first things that were easy to create and distribute...
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Smithsonian Turns to 3d to Bring Collection to the World
With just 2% of the Smithsonian's archive of 137 million items available to the public at any one time, an effort is under way at the world's largest museum and...
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Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality
It wasn't so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny...
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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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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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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom
Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal.
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Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups
Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...
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Microchips' Optical Future
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity—and the technical expertise to build them may reside...
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What Dropbox Can Teach S About Cloud Computing
Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services.
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How Networks of Biological Cells Solve Distributed Computing Problems
Distributed computing is all the rage these days. The idea is to break down computational tasks into convenient chunks and distribute them across a network to a...
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Commercial Drones: A Dogfight at the Faa
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...
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Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved
Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.
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Turing's Enduring Importance
When Alan Turing was born 100 years ago, on June 23, 1912, a computer was not a thing—it was a person.
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Europe Goes for Computing Technologies as Driver for Competitiveness
The recent HiPEAC 2012 Conference highlighted the goal of getting energy efficient and low-cost computing technologies into the full spectrum of devices and systems...
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