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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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Beyond Hadoop
The leading open source system for processing big data continues to evolve, but new approaches with added features are on the rise.
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Debunker of Doomsday: Nasa Scientist Tries to Talk Some Sense Into the World
Swirling with lunacy and paranoia, the theories warn of mayhem and cataclysm.
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Ibm: In the Next 5 Years Computers Will Learn, Mimic the Human Senses
A new generation of machines that learn, adapt, sense, and experience the world as humans do through the five basic senses is one of the technologies highlighted...
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Quantum Computers Will Be Commercially Available in 20 Years: Scientist
University of New South Wales professor Andrew Dzurak predicts that commercially available quantum computing will in arrive two decades, while demonstrations of...
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An Accelerometer So Good That Only Quantum Mechanics Limits It
We take it for granted now, but the fact that you can flip your phone from portrait to landscape mode depends on accelerometers. As everyone knows, though, the...
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'biology Is a Manufacturing Capability'
Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology.
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Point of Light
Caltech researchers have created a device that can focus light into a point just a few nanometers across, a breakthrough they say could lead to next-generation...
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Is the Light Spectrum the Next Frontier for Wireless?
Computer devices could eventually use light to communicate, and Li-Fi, formally called visible light communications, could replace Wi-Fi, says the University of...
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What If NASA Could Figure Out the Math of a Workable Warp Drive?
When, a few weeks ago, astronomers announced that an Earth-sized planet had been detected orbiting a Alpha Centauri B, a star in the closest system of stars to...
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Proving Quantum Computers Feasible
Quantum computers are devices—still largely theoretical—that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might...
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Bend Me, Shape Me: Flexible Phones 'out By 2013'
Imagine treating your phone like a piece of paper.
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Smallest Logic Circuit Fabricated With Single-Electron Transistors
Researchers from South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom have fabricated a half-adder logic circuit using only five transistors.
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Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
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Penn Researchers Make Flexible, Low-Voltage Circuits sing Nanocrystals
University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown that nanocrystals of the semiconductor cadmium selenide can be "printed" or "coated" on flexible plastic to create...
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Risk of Robot prising Wiping Out Human Race to Be Studied
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology, and climate change.
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Michio Kaku Sketches Technological Wonderland of the Future at Sc12
Imagine a world where a computer chip costs just a penny.
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The Computer That Stores and Processes Information at the Same Time
Computer scientists claim they can now store and process information simultaneously like a human brain by using nanoscale electronic components.
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