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Php Keepers Plot Radical Revision of the Language
PHP core developer Dmitry Stogov recently started a new branch of the language called PHP Next Generation.
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How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds
Researchers say they have successfully transmitted data without link layer flow control overloading throughput with retransmission requests.
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells
The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized.
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Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einstein's most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which...
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
MI6 called it Station X.
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Robots As Furniture?
Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have...
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Get Ready For the Computers of the Future
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are exploring ways next-generation computers can make performance gains while reducing energy consumption.
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Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment.
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...
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Buckle p--Ssds Are About to Get Three Times Faster
Researchers say they have developed technology that improves write speeds on solid-state drives by 300 percent using a firmware patch.
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?
As Memorial Day reminds us every year, war doesn't go away.
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Origami Unfolds a New World of Shape-Shifting Electronics
The art of origami is transforming electrical engineering and electronics design, as scientists draw on concepts that could enable new shape-shifting electronics...
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sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.
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Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded...
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic
"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic...
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Computers Learn Better Reading Comprehension Through t Research
A University of Twente researcher has developed a way to help computers improve their understanding of written texts.
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Google ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...
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Google's Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Brakes or Steering Wheel
Humans might be the one problem Google can't solve.
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