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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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Hitachi Targets 2015 For Data Storage That Last 100 Million Years
Hitachi hopes to bring new storage technology capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years to market by 2015.
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Hubble Goes to the Extreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the niverse
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.
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Why Everyone (not Just Geeks) Should Care About Big Data
Hugo Campos has a cardiac defibrillator implanted in his body. It sends data about his heart to his doctors and back to the manufacturer, but it takes days to get...
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3-D Display Screen on Mobile Devices Could Be on the Horizon
The University of Bristol is leading the development of three-dimensional display technology that would enable the screen of a mobile device to physically mutate...
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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes niverses
Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...
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Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody.
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.
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12 Technologies to Watch in STEM Education
The New Media Consortium has released a technology outlook to watch for in science, technology, engineering, and math education over the next five years.
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New Server Cooling Technology Deployed in Pilot Program at Calit2
Calit2 recently developed Cool-Flo, cooling technology that could improve energy efficiency and enable higher-performance computing.
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New Tool Gives Structural Strength to 3-D Printed Works
Researchers at Purdue University and Adobe Advanced Technology Labs have developed a program that automatically adds strength to objects before they are printed...
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Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact
This month, Intel unveiled a Wi-Fi radio almost completely made of the same sort of transistors that go into one of its microprocessors.
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Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target
NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake...
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Official: Iran's N. Facilities Vaccinated Against Malwares
Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali stressed that Iranian experts and engineers are fully capable of detecting and repelling...
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Why Wi-Fi Is Often So Slow
A number of Internet service providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., have recently upped the maximum speeds of broadband they offer...
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Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...
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For Energy-Efficient Hpc, Less Is More
Intel researchers recently demonstrated their NTV technology by operating an x86 microprocessor on just two milliwatts of power.
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Breakthrough in Bid to Create First Quantum Computer
UNSW researchers say they have created the first working quantum bit based on a single atom in silicon, which could lead to the development of ultra-powerful computers...
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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Nasa Actually Working on Faster-Than-Light Warp Drive
You know that scene in the film Contact where the "Machine" is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful...
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Big Data and Its Big Problems
Imagine every thousandth blood cell in your body has a tiny radio transmitter in it.
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