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A Bendable Implant Taps the Nervous System Without Damaging It
A newly developed flexible electronic implant hashe same ability to bend and stretch as the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
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How Reverse-Engineering the Brain Could Help Machines Learn
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has announced a research and development program to reverse-engineer the algorithms brains use.
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No Need to Panic--Artificial Intelligence Has Yet to Create a Doomsday Machine
University of Sheffield professor Tony Prescott says the day people create dangerous artificial intelligence is far off.
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Quantum Hard Drive Breakthrough
Physicists from Australian National University and the University of Otago have developed a prototype quantum hard drive.
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Language Translation Tech Starts to Deliver on Its Promise
The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel.
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The Leap Second Is About to Rattle the Internet. But There's a Plot to Kill It
The Qantas Airways computers started crashing just after midnight.
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A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage For the Second Time Ever
Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. Unless you follow security news closely...
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Spin Designers
The Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures wants to use the spin of electrons on nanomagnets to encode zeros and ones in computers...
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You Will Be Able to Touch the Internet By 2035, and It Will Touch Back
A Dresden University of Technology professor anticipates the "Tactile Internet" as one potential result of the speed of next-generation G5 wireless technology.
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Hackers Could Make Smart Homes Stupid--or Worse
A professor working to bolster smart-home security says now is the time to start thinking about cybersecurity nightmares.
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Adding Leap Second This Year Expected to Cause Internet Problems
A leap second will be added to the year this summer, and many Internet companies are concerned this will cause problems for websites.
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Why Passenger Planes Can Still Vanish
By Dec. 30, when search teams began to recover debris and bodies from the apparent crash site of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the airline industry had begun to hear renewed...
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This Computer Knows When to Hold 'em, Knows When to Fold 'em
Card sharks, beware. A new program cannot be beaten at a variety of poker called heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em—at least in a human lifetime—a team of computer scientists...
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A Spectacular Spiral May Encircle the Milky Way
Mapping a galaxy isn't easy when you live inside it.
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Your Computer Could Help Unlock the Universe’s Mysteries in Its Free Time
The University of California, Berkeley's Open Infrastructure for Network Computing program enables PCs to work together to create a virtual supercomputer.
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Ensuring Security for Networks of the Future
Security for next-generation company networks will be the focus of a presentation at the CeBIT trade fair in Hannover, Germany, in March.
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Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with 'deep Learning'
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...
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Someday Soon, You May Pay Your Restaurant Bill With A Retina Scan
The past 30 years have seen payments shift from cash and checks to debit cards and websites, and most recently to mobile phone apps, including Apple Pay and ...
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NASA's Messenger Probe Ready for Final Tour of Mercury
The first spacecraft to orbit Mercury is almost out of gas.
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