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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Scientists Search For Habitable Planets
There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life.
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What Is Graphene? Here's What You Need to Know About a Material that Could Be the Next Silicon
Graphene, an emerging material that could change the way electronic components are made and help computing performance continue to grow, is everywhere in the research...
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The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.
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Writing Programs Using Ordinary Language
In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's...
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Computational Photography: The Snap Is Only the Start
Imagine a camera that allows you to see through a crowd to get a clear view of someone who would otherwise be obscured, a smartphone that matches big-budget lenses...
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Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of 'robo Sapiens'
Moving its hands as if it were dealing cards and walking with a bit of a swagger, a Pentagon-financed humanoid robot named Atlas made its first public appearance...
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Graphene May Give US Cooler, Longer-Lasting Computers
Cooling is an important and tricky part of modern computing—you don't want those ever-more-functional processors overheating, but you also don't want the cooling...
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Nasa's Opals to Beam Data From Space Via Laser
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacspacecraft communications, enhance commercial...
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A Quantum Conundrum
D-Wave has helped bring quantum computing into the spotlight, but critics continue to question the company's performance claims.
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New Language Helps Quantum Coders Build Killer Apps
Quantum software has finally left the dark ages with the creation of the first practical, high-level programming language for quantum computers.
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Physicists Discover the Secret of Quantum Remote Control
Teleportation is one of the more extraordinary phenomena in the quantum world.
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The Last Survivors of the End of the World
In 2 billion years' time, life on Earth will be confined to pockets of liquid water deep underground, according to PhD astrobiologist Jack O'Malley James of the...
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'shields to Maximum, Mr. Scott'
Researchers are working with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop ballistic limit curves.
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New System ses Low-Power Wi-Fi Signal to Track Moving Humans—even Behind Walls
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects.
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Siri's Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative
In a small, dark, room off a long hallway within a sprawling complex of buildings in Silicon Valley, an array of massive flat-panel displays and video cameras track ...
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Nasa's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'solar Bubble'
Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object...
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Researcher Dreams p Machines That Learn Without Humans
Yoshua Bengio recently had a vision—a vision of how to build computers that learn like people do.
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Overprotection May Be Hampering Hunt For Mars Life
There are aliens on Mars—and they came from Earth.
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