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Robots Compete in Disaster Scenarios
The DARPA Robotics Challenge pitted teams from around the world against each other in a series of disaster-themed tasks.
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Big Data Meets Big Science
Next-generation scientific instruments are forcing researchers to question the limits of massively parallel computing.
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Insect-Inspired Sensors Improve Tiny Robot’s Flight
RoboBee is a tiny flying robot with a self-stabilizing feature inspired by the light-sensing organs of insects.
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Computer Spots Rare Diseases in Family Photos
Doctors faced with the tricky task of spotting rare genetic diseases in children may soon be asking parents to email their family photos.
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.s. Intelligence Agency Wants Brain-Like Algorithms For Complex Information Processing
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to develop technology that will enable computers to think like humans.
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The Secret Formula to Successful Online Dating
Researchers have studied the behavior of 200,000 people on Chinese dating site Baihe.com to gain insight into how successful online matches are made.
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Researchers nveil Experimental 36-Core Chip
The more cores—or processing units—a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes.
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Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough
Modern computers are not unlike the looms of the industrial revolution: They follow programmed instructions to weave intricate patterns.
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Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
In September 1976, in the midst of the Cold War, Victor Ivanovich Belenko, a disgruntled Soviet pilot, veered off course from a training flight over Siberia in...
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These Psychedelic Images Find Order Amid Chaos
What do you see when you look at these images?
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Nasa's Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year—687 Earth days—on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once...
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Beyond Tianhe-2
The TOP500 semi-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, announced yesterday, revealed that China's Tianhe-2 has kept its first-place position...
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Indoor Gps Is the Final Frontier of Personalized Navigation
Labs in the U.S. and U.K. are working on next-generation GPS that's so cool, it won't even use satellites.
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Scheduling Algorithms Based on Game Theory Makes Better se of Computational Resources
A new method has been developed to address the scheduling problem in the ASTRO program in cosmology and the WIEK2k program in theoretical chemistry.
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Memory Cells Built on Paper
A team at the National Taiwan University in Taipei has printed small resistive random access memory cells on paper.
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Top500 Supercomputer Race Hits a Slow Patch
The performance of the world's fastest computers has been steadily growing for two decades, but the latest tally of their collective performance shows slowing progress...
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The Game Theory of Life
An insight borrowed from computer science suggests that evolution values both fitness and diversity.
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Computing a Cure For Hiv: 9 Ways Supercomputers Help Scientists nderstand and Treat the Virus
HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a major menace worldwide.
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