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Ibm: Commercial Nanotube Transistors Are Coming Soon
For more than a decade, engineers have been fretting that they are running out of tricks for continuing to shrink silicon transistors.
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Machines Finally Match Monkeys in Key Image-Recognition Test
There are so many ways that humans are still superior to machines.
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Here's What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014
Graduates around the world gather at the end of spring for one final lesson: the commencement speech.
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Tibetan Altitude Gene Came from Extinct Human Species
Tibetans are comfortable at high altitudes where the air is thin.
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Could Color Wheels Make For Easier, More Secure Passwords?
The password as we know it is in critical condition.
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Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isn't a Dangerous Distraction?
Automakers are increasingly integrating touchscreens into vehicles—to the dismay of safe-driving advocates, who justifiably fear people are already too distracted...
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Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos
Smartphones, GoPro cameras, and Google Glass are making it easy for anyone to shoot video anywhere.
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Forecasting Future May One Day Become as Practical as Predicting Weather, Thanks to Big Data Advances
The Early Model Based Even Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) project was created to develop ways to use big data to forecast significant societal events.
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Quantum State May Be a Real Thing
At the very heart of quantum mechanics lies a monster waiting to consume unwary minds.
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The AP's Newest Business Reporter Is an Algorithm
Journalistic earnings stories can feel robotic, even when written by a news organization as prestigious as the Associated Press.
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The $8.5m Race to Protect Planes From Cosmic Rays
It's an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth.
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The Space-Based Quantum Cryptography Race
One of the great benefits of quantum communication is the ability to send messages from one point in space to another with perfect security.
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The Great Salmon Run Algorithm
Researchers say a new algorithm based on the survival trials faced by salmon swimming upstream to spawn can help them find the optimal solution to a given problem...
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Ray Kurzweil Says He's Breathing Intelligence Into Google Search
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...
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Make Robots seful By Teaching Them to Talk Like S
When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him.
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Basic Logic Research Crucial For Computer, Software Engineering
The success of informatics would have been impossible without the groundwork provided by logicians; and, in turn, computer sciences keep posing new interesting...
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The Quadriplegic Who Moved His Hand
Ian Burkhart was 19 and fearless and horsing around in the surf with friends on vacation in North Carolina’s Outer Banks when he mistimed a dive and a wave drove...
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Larry Page on Google's Many Arms
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.
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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn
It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn.
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