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NASA's New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto's 'Heart'
In the latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million...
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Firing Squad Synchronization, Computer Science's Most Macabre-Sounding Problem
Getting a firing squad to fire in sync is a puzzle that was studied in computer science's early days, because it was vital to automata theory.
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The Hard Disk of the Future Will Be Ten Thousand Times Faster, Researchers Say
Think your computer is pretty slow?
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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Computing at the Speed of Light
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Sergio Cantu studies how light can act as an information carrier in computing and calculating.
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Transparent Paper Produces Power With Just a Touch
A new transparent-paper device can generate electrical power from a user's touch (ACS Nano 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02414).
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Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze
In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...
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Virtual Medical Training: Don’t Call It Virtual Reality
Medical professionals prefer to reference the technology with terms that are "less sci-fi."
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An Algorithmic Sense of Humor? Not Yet.
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...
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The Social Security Number's Insecurities
In both the Anthem insurance hack and the two Office of Personnel Management hacks this year, attackers gained access to Social Security numbers, affecting 80 million...
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Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children
Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relevance for American parents whose children...
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The Rapid Rise of Neural Networks and Why They'll Rule Our World
Neural network technology has advanced to the point where it underpins cutting-edge speech, text, and image-recognition systems, and scientists such as the University...
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Here Are the 12 Most Influential Programmers Working Today
The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum—someone, somewhere, wrote the code.
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There May Be Infinite niverses—and Infinite Versions of You
In another universe you might have become the president of Micronesia. Or a pauper, subsisting on ketchup.
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.
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Nasa's New Horizons: A 'heart' from Pluto as Flyby Begins
After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it's show time for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations...
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IBM Discloses Working Version of a Much Higher-Capacity Chip
IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips, with roughly four times the capacity of today's most powerful chips.
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Introducing the Astronaut Clothing of the Future
A crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is performing routine maintenance.
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