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Leading Chipmakers Eye Euv Lithography to Save Moore's Law
Even after you don a bunny suit and get deep inside Fab 8, it's hard to get a sense of scale.
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Nasa Moon Mission Shares Insights Into Giant Impacts
New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of...
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Beyond Silicon: Squeezing More Out of Chips
Ali Farhadi holds a puny $5 computer, called a Raspberry Pi, comfortably in his palm and exults that his team of researchers has managed to squeeze into it a powerful...
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Finding Patterns in Corrupted Data
A new set of algorithms developed is capable of efficiently model-fitting probability distributions to high-dimensional data.
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Nate Silver Blew It When He Missed Trump. Now He Really Needs to Get It Right.
Nate Silver is on the downtown 1 train. Possibly because he looks like a (modestly) hip math teacher, and hardly looks up from his phone, he goes unrecognized until...
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How AI Is Shaking p the Chip Market
In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone.
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Google Teaches 'ais' to Invent Their Own Crypto and Avoid Eavesdropping
Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying...
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A New Class of Materials Could Realize Quantum Computers
Researchers at Switzerland's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne identified materials whose electronic properties could be ideal for spintronics.
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Further Clues to Fate of Mars Lander, Seen From Orbit
The most powerful telescope orbiting Mars is providing new details of the scene near the Martian equator where Europe's Schiaparelli test lander hit the surface...
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Your Dvr Didn't Take Down the Internet, Yet
Last week ended with a mid-level internet catastrophe. You may have noticed that for most of Friday popular sites like Netflix, Twitter, Spotify (and yes, WIRED)...
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Tangled p in Spacetime
"All the world’s a stage…," Shakespeare wrote, and physicists tend to think that way, too.
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X-Rays Are Revealing the Mysterious Writings in Mummy Coffins
It's a sleepy summer Friday at Lawrence Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.
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Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Mars Lander
Photos of a huge circle of churned-up Martian soil leave few doubts: a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that was supposed to test landing technology on Mars crashed...
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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How Nasa Fights To Keep Our Dying Spacecraft Alive
Sometime in the next 10 or so years, the massive antennas that comprise NASA's Deep Space Network will pick up a faint, distant signal for the final time.
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Chinese Researchers Develop Algorithms For Smart Energy Grid
Scientists at Northeastern University in China have proposed a way to distribute energy similarly to how the Internet operates.
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Webcams sed to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled
Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks.
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Icy Heart Could Be Key to Pluto's Strange Geology
Pluto's icy heart beats with a planetary rhythm.
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New Technique Allows Scientists to 'listen' to Proteins
Researchers have come up with a bold new method for representing and understanding a protein's shape: translating it into music.
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