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Rise of the Swarm
Guided by collective intelligence, teams of small, simple robots could soon accomplish amazing feats.
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DARPA Wants Teeny-Tiny Fluids to Cool Down Next-Gen Microchips
DARPA researchers want to embed stacked microchips with tiny fluid channels to circulate small drops of water as microfluidic cooling systems.
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Nanotubes Seen as Alternative When Silicon Chips Hit Their Limits
A microelectronic circuit composed of 44 transistors made from carbon nanotubes demonstrates that nanotubes could be the best successor to silicon-based chips.
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The Road to Uncovering a Wartime Colossus
The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner...
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DARPA Wants Teeny-Tiny Fluids to Cool Down Next-Gen Microchips
The Pentagon's mad scientists have concocted a plan to keep the miniature, stacked brains of tomorrow's advanced computers cool enough to power next-gen technological...
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Combining Quantum Information Communication and Storage
Aalto University researchers have taken the first step toward creating exotic mechanical quantum states.
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Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex
Every summer, computer security experts get together in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEFCON, conferences that have earned notoriety for presentations demonstrating...
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The Computer That Never Crashes
University College London researchers have created what they describe as a self-repairing computer that could keep mission-critical systems working.
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Biological Connections in Microelectronics
Researchers have developed a potential solution for miniaturizing electronic components based on basic cell processes.
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In Cyberwar, Software Flaws Are a Hot Commodity
There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons...
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Cell Circuits Remember Their History
MIT researchers have developed genetic circuits in bacterial cells that perform logic functions and remember the results.
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U.S. Air Force Project Aims to Transform Supercomputing
Virginia Tech professor Wu Feng is working to increase simulation speeds of computational fluid dynamics for the U.S. Air Force's micro air vehicles (MAVs) project...
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Magnetoelectric Materials Promise Advances in Computing Technology
Argonne National Laboratory researchers have developed methods for controlling magnetic order in a specific class of materials called magnetoelectrics.
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Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?
For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to...
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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nseen, All-Out Cyber War on the .s. Has Begun
There's a war going on, and it's raging here at home—not in the streets or the fields, but on the Internet.
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How to Build a Nanotube Computer
IBM researchers have assembled 10,000 carbon nanotube transistors on a silicon chip, which they say is a breakthrough that could lead to a new way of producingView...
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Phreaks and Geeks
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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