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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
"Qubits" of information encoded in a silicon system persisted for almost 100 times longer than ever before.
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Will Ibm's Watson sher in a New Era of Cognitive Computing?
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.
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Blinded By the Light
The probe sails through space, traveling the distance of the LA-to-Chicago red-eye in a minute.
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger Lhc
When Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up in 2008, particle physicists would not have dreamt of asking for something bigger until they got their US$5...
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Five Fascinating Things Revealed By Twitter Data
When technology companies get floated on the stock market, it prompts all kinds of analytical soul searching.
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It's Complicated: Dawn Spurs Rewrite of Vesta's Story
Just when scientists thought they had a tidy theory for how the giant asteroid Vesta formed, a new paper from NASA's Dawn mission suggests the history is more complicated...
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Monkey Thoughts Move Virtual Arms—human-Machine Mind-Meld Next?
Rhesus monkeys in a lab are using their brains to move two arms of a virtual primate on a screen, moving researchers one step closer towards outfitting paralyzed...
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Black Holes Don't Make a Big Splash
Throughout our universe, tucked inside galaxies far, far away, giant black holes are pairing up and merging.
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Quantum 'sealed Envelope' System Enables 'perfectly Secure' Information Storage
Cambridge University researchers say they have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cryptography by demonstrating that information can be encrypted and then decrypted...
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What Is 4d Printing?
The biggest breakthroughs in how we make things lie not in the technology to manipulate materials but in the materials themselves.
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Professor Clifford I. Nass, Expert on Human/computer Interactions, Dead at 55
Clifford I. Nass, a Stanford communication professor known for his research on the way people interact with technology, died Nov. 2 at Stanford Sierra Camp near...
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How to Program Unreliable Chips
As transistors get smaller, they also become less reliable.
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The Dark Corners of the Internet
The way information spreads through society has been the focus of intense study in recent years.
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Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
If the New York Times's latest article is to be believed, artificial intelligence is moving so fast it sometimes seems almost "magical."
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Japan: A Haven For Humanoid Robots
Noriko Arai is not the first woman to spotlight the hazard that boys and their toys can present, and she won't be the last.
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Making Robots More Like S
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...
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Research Brings nbreakable Phones One Step Closer
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology researchers have developed a method to transfer electronics with versatile functionality onto a flexible surface. RMIT's...
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'feel' Objects in Thin Air: The Future of Touch Technology
Touch technology has come a long way in the last decade.
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