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Prof Says Tech Entering the Age of the Algorithm
University of Texas at Dallas professor Andras Farago thinks that as algorithms become more important to software development, educational and career opportunities...
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Nasa's Next Mars Rover to Land at Gale Crater
NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is scheduled...
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Smartphones Get Smarter About Payments
Paying for the morning commute will soon be accomplished by the wave of a smartphone. State and local governments are joining Internet, credit card, and wireless...
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Life, Translated
The Holy Grail of language translation is to develop a machine-based system that can handle the task transparently and accurately.
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Supercomputing's Exaflop Target
The twin challenges of parallelism and energy consumption are enlivening supercomputers' progress.
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A New Benchmark For Artificial Intelligence
Computers are unable to defeat the world's best Go players, but that may change with the application of a new strategy that promises to revolutionize artificial...
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Replacing Lost Abilities with a Robot
Henry Evans recently shaved himself for the first time since a stroke left him mute and partly paralyzed 10 years ago. His achievement came thanks to researchers...
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Russia's Post-Shuttle Space Plans
With the U.S. manned space program grounded following the last mission of the space shuttle, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft is the only avenue into space for NASA...
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Research Brings Cloud Costs Back to Earth
Swinburne University of Technology researchers are developing ways to reduce the cost of Internet data storage and retrieval in cloud computing.
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China Unveils Another Supercomputer
China recently launched its newest supercomputer, known as the Tianhe-1 system, using the same technology that it used to build the Tianhe-1A system.
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Improving Recommendation Systems
MIT professor Devavrat Shah thinks that the most common approach to recommendation systems is fundamentally flawed; he says recommendation systems should ask users...
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Engineers Work to Ease Internet Data Flow as Demand For Video Grows
Princeton University researchers have developed the Edge Laboratory, a miniature version of the global communications network, to develop new ideas and systems...
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Wi-Fi 'napping' Doubles Phone Battery Life
Duke University researchers have developed SleepWell, software that can double the battery life of mobile devices by making changes to Wi-Fi technology.
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Magnetic Memory and Logic Could Achieve Ultimate Energy Efficiency
Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by University...
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Was the Space Shuttle a Mistake?
Forty years ago, I wrote an article for Technology Review titled "Shall We Build the Space Shuttle?" Now, with the 135th and final flight of the shuttle at hand...
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Moore's Law Meets Exascale Computing
Moore's law will end during the decade of exascale computing, predicts a new white paper.
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Model Finds Optimal Fiber Optic Network Connections 10,000 Times More Quickly
Designers of fiber-optic networks will be able to find the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places in just a few seconds...
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DARPA Sharpens Focus on Video Analysis Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing two video-analysis technologies for detecting activity from different imaging-capturing sensors...
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Graphene Technology Moves Closer
Graphene is a "wonder material" waiting to happen. Since this super-conductive form of carbon, made from single-atom-thick sheets, was first produced in 2004,...
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