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IBM Spending $3 Billion to Rethink Decades-Old Computer Design
IBM plans to spend $3 billion over the next five years to research and develop new fundamental computing technologies, focusing specifically on the possibilities...
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IBM Wants to Make its Watson Supercomputer as Small as a Pizza Box
IBM researchers are developing handheld computers with the power of today's supercomputers.
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Mit Figures Out How to Give the Moon Broadband--Using Lasers
Researchers have developed a system that can give a satellite orbiting the moon faster Internet access than many U.S. homes get.
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IBM and Fujifilm Show Super Dense Storage Tape For Big Data Work
Researchers at IBM and Fujifilm are developing a magnetic tape prototype that can store 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch.
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Researchers Try New 'twist' on Smartwatches
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a prototype smartwatch that can be controlled by the wearer's hand gestures, or by clicking its face.
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Robot Project Aims to Help Doctors Diagnose Human Stroke Victims
Researchers are developing spring-loaded muscles for the Roboy robot.
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Faster Computer Performance Targeted By Memory Consortium
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has proposed a faster and more power-efficient specification for its emerging Hybrid Memory Cube memory technology.
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3D Webcams Will Help Pcs Read Human Emotions, Intel Says
Intel says its new three-dimensional webcam can combine with voice, touch, and gesture to make human interaction more natural and intuitive.
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Google's 4k Video Format to Hit Tvs, Mobile Devices, Pcs
Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, Panasonic, Philips, LG, and Sharp have introduced TVs that support VP9, Google's new 4K video format.
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Cornell Researchers Print 3D Speaker
Researchers have successfully fabricated a working loudspeaker using a three-dimensional printer.
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Moore's Law Isn't Making Chips Cheaper Anymore
Chip makers can no longer expect to make processors smaller, faster, and less expensive with each generation by packing more transistors onto a silicon wafer.
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Experimental Malware ses Inaudible Sound to Defeat Network Air Gaps
Researchers have tested the feasibility of creating a covert acoustical mesh network between multiple laptops to exchange data using near-ultrasonic frequencies...
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Intel Proposes New Standard to Light Up Data Transfers
Intel's proposed new optical interconnect, MXC, could be a key step in standardizing optical technology and bringing it to servers faster.
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Xerox Scanners Found to Sometimes Alter Numbers
Xerox scanners sometimes randomly alter numbers on documents when reproducing them if a specific combination of image quality and compression settings are used. ...
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Flexible, Networked E-Ink Displays Mimic Physical Documents
Researchers at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris unveiled electronic ink displays that can bend as a form of input.
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Researchers Develop Featherweight Chips That Dissolve in Water
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin and in some cases dissolve in water when they...
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Supercomputers Face Growing Resilience Problems
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software that runs in conjunction with the Message Passing Interface, a library for splitting applications...
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Cray Bumps IBM From Top500 Supercomputer Top Spot
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer system, a Cray XK7, was named the world's fastest supercomputer in the latest edition of the Top500 list.
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Cray's Next Supercomputer Has Speedy Interconnect
Cray's new XC30 supercomputer, known as Aries, features a new interconnect and a new routing topology that together could dramatically improve internal bandwidth...
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