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What's a 'computer Vision Specialist' and Why Does Apple Need One?
When Apple posted a job listing last week for a "Computer Vision specialist," the tech-obsessed echo chamber began speculating which Apple product line would be...
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Intel's Ivy Bridge Chips Launch Using '3d Transistors'
The American firm says the innovation allows it to offer more computational power while using less energy.
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Researchers Boost Efficiency of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
North Carolina State University researchers have developed centrality-based power control technology, which they say is a more efficient data transmission approach...
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Iran Decodes U.S. Drone Intel
Senior Iranian military officials announced that the country's experts have decoded the intelligence gathering system and memory hard discs of the United States'...
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New Report Recommends NASA Rethink How It Avoids Contaminating Other Worlds
Over the past several decades, there's been a stunning revolution in how we view the prospect of life on other planets.
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Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and...
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Automating Scientific Discovery
Computer scientists are teaching machines to run experiments, make inferences from the data, and use the results to conduct new experiments.
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Robots Like Us
Thanks to new research initiatives, autonomous humanoid robots are inching closer to reality.
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Medical Device Hack Attacks May Kill, Researchers Warn
Karen Sandler has a big heart. And that's not just because she is head of the Gnome Foundation—a non-profit community group dedicated to making and giving away...
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Digitally Possessed
Virtual possessions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. How we think about them and deal with them is changing the way we think and interact...
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Research Consortium Claims Solution For Multi-Core Scaling
Hierarchical hardware coherence that remains transparent to application programs could be used to solve the scaling problem for next-generation processors, according...
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Cassini Successfully Flies Over Enceladus
Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 kilometers). This flyby was designed primarily for the ion and neutral mass spectrometer to analyze...
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Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub
Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...
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Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test
One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it's...
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WM Discovery Advances Graphene-Based Electronics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researchers have discovered a new carbon-based material that could lead to the next generation of electronics.
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Ghent niversity and Imec Report Open Source Software Release of Ipkiss
Researchers at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center and Ghent University recently launched IPKISS, a generic and modular open source software framework for...
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Simulating Tomorrow's Chips
Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips' efficiency. But the...
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Secret Computer Code Threatens Science
Modern science relies upon researchers sharing their work so that their peers can check and verify success or failure.
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