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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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Faster Computer Performance Targeted By Memory Consortium
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has proposed a faster and more power-efficient specification for its emerging Hybrid Memory Cube memory technology.
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Syria War Stirs New .S. Debate on Cyberattacks
Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and theNational Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured...
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World Without Wires
Capturing electricity from ambient RF transmissions can keep low-power applications off the grid.
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Telecom Firms Mine For Gold in Big Data Despite Privacy Concerns
Last year's revelations over the U.S. tapping of phone and internet data gave telecoms firms pause for thought over whether they should sell their "big data" for...
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Smarter Caching
Computer chips keep getting faster because transistors keep getting smaller.
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Atom Circuits a Step Closer
A memory effect that is crucial in electronics has been seen for the first time in a cloud of ultracold atoms.
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Nasa's Nustar ntangles Mystery of How Stars Explode
One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, finally is being unraveled with the help of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope...
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Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role
Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?
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Shortage of Mainframe Skills Looms but Companies Remain in Denial
A mainframe skills shortage is approaching, but only about 40 percent of CIOs surveyed by Compuware said they had a formal plan in place to address the issue.
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How Hpc Is Hacking Hadoop
The Hadoop open source framework increasingly is being used in high-performance computing environments, particularly for data-intensive scientific computing.
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Starman
It was a mild October day in Hollywood, but a trace of artificial snow remained on the ground as Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, at...
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Connected Cars: Apps, Networks, and Storage on Wheels
Mobile apps are being designed to help make transportation safer, but a better way is needed to integrate information services within the transportation segment...
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At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You
Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior, courtesy of 171 recently...
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What Can nite Liberals and Tea Partyers? The Nsa
Hoyt Sparks says he has no use for liberal Democrats and their "socialistic, Marxist, communist" ways.
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Stirring-p Atomtronics in a Quantum Circuit
Researchers used a superfluid atomtronic circuit to create a hysteresis, the first time hysteresis has been observed in an ultracold atomic gas.
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Computer Scientist Looks For Deeper Meaning in Webcam Videos
A University of Kentucky professor is researching new ways to use computers to understand images.
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Last Call For Bad Calls
Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...
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The Timekeeping Tech that Keeps the Olympics Fair
"On your marks, get set, Go!" might work to start a race on the playground but in the highest-stakes world of the Olympic games, where every thousandth of a second...
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Liquid-Cooled Supercomputers, to Trim the Power Bill
Submerging supercomputers and servers in oil or other liquids to cool them off might offer a way to reduce their massive energy consumption.
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