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Microsoft Spends Big to Build a Computer Out of Science Fiction
Microsoft is dedicating significant funding and manpower to its efforts related to quantum computing. Microsoft's decision to build a working prototype highlights...
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China's Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks.
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World's First Photonic Neural Network nveiled
Neural networks are taking the world of computing by storm.
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New Ceres Views as Dawn Moves Higher
The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of...
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Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI
Microsoft researchers recently built an artificially intelligent system that seems to recognize conversational speech as effectively as a human.
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K-Computer Leads Graph 500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers
Japan's K-Computer tops the latest Graph 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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Cow Goes Moo: Artificial Intelligence-Based System Associates Images With Sounds
Using artificial-intelligence techniques, a new system from Disney Research and ETH Zurich is capable of learning the association between images and the sounds...
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Defibrillator-Equipped Drones Could Be First on Scene in Cardiac Arrest
Timothy Chan at the University of Toronto in Canada wants to use drone technology to help people who suffer cardiac arrest. Chan used computer models to determine...
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Mathematical Algorithms Calculate Social Behavior
Predicting and influencing human behavior is well on its way to becoming reality, according to researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) in...
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Quantum Computers Can Talk to Each Other via a Photon Translator
Researchers from Germany's University of Paderborn have developed a system that can convert photons from one spread of frequencies to another, while preserving...
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Accelerating Cancer Research With Deep Learning
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are applying deep-learning techniques to automate how information is collected from cancer pathology reports.
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Now You See It, Now You Don't
Researchers say they have developed a cloaking device for microscopic photonic integrated devices that will enable photonic computer chips to be more efficient....
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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach
A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...
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Trump's Plans to Shake p the Tech World
Donald Trump's ascension to the White House had very little to do with his views on the spread of high-speed broadband, wireless spectrum allocation—or any number...
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Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream p Buildings
From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.
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Giant Machine Shows How a Computer Works
Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. have built a giant, operational 16-bit computer to help non-experts see how the mechanisms of computation work...
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The Fun Work of Technology Crystal Ball Gazing at Sc16
Next week's International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis will feature a workshop on Post-Moore Era Supercomputing.
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What Trump Means For Tech
Barack Obama's policies on technology were considered pro-innovation, with a view to using technology expertise to improve government systems and services.
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Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Monkeys to Walk
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...
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