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Google Spdy Accelerates Mobile Web
The SPDY protocol can help provide much faster access to mobile Web sites, according to Google engineers.
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Moore's Law Lives Another Day
"[Gordon] Moore is my boss, and if your boss makes a law, then you'd better follow it," says Mark Bohr, who leads Intel's efforts to make advances in microchip...
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Nist Physicists Benchmark Quantum Simulator With Hundreds of Qubits
U.S. NIST researchers have developed a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of qubits, which is 10 times more than previous devices....
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California Chosen as Home for Computing Institute
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for...
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Nhtsa Testing V2v Communication Systems, Considering Requiring Technology on New Cars
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration wants to ramp up the development and deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems, and the federal...
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Papers From Collective Intelligence 2012 Conference Now Online
MIT recently hosted the Collective Intelligence 2012 conference, which gave collective intelligence experts an opportunity to review papers about behavior that...
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Turing's Rapid Nazi Enigma Code-Breaking Secret Revealed
Two papers written by Alan Turing that detail his mathematical analysis for code breaking now can be viewed on request at Britain's National Archives.
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The Robot Revolution Is Just Beginning
When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...
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Vint Cerf: We Knew What We Were nleashing on the World
Vint Cerf invented the protocol that rules them all: TCP/IP.
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War of the Worlds: When Science, Politics Collide
Roger Cone is a microbiologist, not a politician. He struggles with a basic truth: For all the scientific acceptance of evolution, many Americans simply don't believe...
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Research Consortium Claims Solution For Multi-Core Scaling
Hierarchical hardware coherence that remains transparent to application programs could be used to solve the scaling problem for next-generation processors, according...
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Nancy Lynch Named 2012 Athena Lecturer
MIT's Nancy Lynch was named the 2012 Athena Lecturer for her advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
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Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test
One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it's...
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WM Discovery Advances Graphene-Based Electronics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researchers have discovered a new carbon-based material that could lead to the next generation of electronics.
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Controversial Quantum Computer Beats Factoring Record
Chinese researchers recently used a process called adiabatic computing to find the prime factors of the number 143, beating the previous record for a quantum computer...
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Quantum Computing: Is It Possible, and Should You Care?
What is a quantum computer and when can I have one?
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A Quantum Network Built with Two Atoms and Fiber Optic Cable
In an ordinary computer network, data in the form of binary numbers are transferred from one machine (node) to another via some sort of electronic signal, either...
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Law Allows Creationism to Be Taught in Tenn. Public Schools
A bill that allows Tennessee public school teachers to teach alternatives to mainstream scientific theories, such as evolution, will become law this month after...
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