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Turing Award-Winner Stonebraker on the Future of Taming Big Data
2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Michael Stonebraker says the future of big data usage hinges on several factors.
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Obama Orders Effort to Build First Exascale Computer
The United States is now committed to building an exascale computer, some 30 times more powerful than today’s top machine.
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Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope
There is a gaping hole in the latest effort to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), one so big it could hold an estimated 357 million...
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Science on the Surface of a Comet
Complex molecules that could be key building blocks of life, the daily rise and fall of temperature, and an assessment of the surface properties and internal structure...
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Hacked Molecular Machine Could Pump Out Custom Proteins
By hijacking the cellular machinery that makes proteins, bioengineers have developed a tool that could allow them to better understand protein synthesis, explore...
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Facial Recognition Tool 'works in Darkness'
Two scientists at a German university have developed a tool which recognises a person's face in complete darkness.
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Making the New Silicon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed gallium nitride transistors to power electronic circuits.
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Beam Me Up? Teleporting Is Real, Even If Trekkie Transport Isn't
"I have a hard time saying this with a straight face, but I will: You can teleport a single atom from one place to another," says Chris Monroe, a biophysicist at...
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China Building One of the World's Fastest Astronomical Computers to Power Giant, Alien-Seeking Telescope
China's new Sky Eye 1 supercomputer is expected to be the fastest astronomical supercomputer in the world, topping Japan's Aterui.
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Obama's New Executive Order Says the .s. Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer
President Obama has established a new initiative across multiple government agencies that will focus entirely on creating the fastest supercomputers ever devised...
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Fraud, Corruption Infect Poland’s Computer Science Community
Academics face legal proceedings for allegedly extorting research grants.
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.
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Neanderthals Had Outsize Effect on Human Biology
Our ancestors were not a picky bunch.
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Scientists in Greece Design Cryptographic E-Voting Platform
Researchers in Greece say they have designed the world's first encrypted electronic voting system in which voters can confirm their votes go to the intended candidate...
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China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet
China's government aims to redraft the rules of the global Internet so it can regulate the Internet on its own terms.
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India Loves Moocs
Massively open online courses have taken off in a big way in India, where they are meeting a need for education, particularly technical education.
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change
After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.
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Physicists Restart Souped-p Hadron Collider
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...
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Crystal Clear
University of California, Santa Barbara professor Stephen D. Wilson is working to find the 21st century's equivalent of silicon.
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