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Europe's Driverless Car (driver Still Required)
Tucked away in the basement of an iconic office tower shaped like four engine cylinders, engineer Werner Huber is telling me about the joy of driving.
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Un Sets Stage For Blazing Fast Mobile Devices
The United Nations has approved new standards for the IMT-advanced system, which should make the next generation of mobile technology 500 times faster than 3G smartphones...
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A Big Leap Toward Lowering the Power Consumption of Microprocessors
University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed systematic power profiles of microprocessors, which they say could help lower the energy consumption of...
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The Social Life of Robots
Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?
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The Science of Better Science
Researchers are exploring networked computational analysis, formal classification, and topic modeling to better identify relevant scientists, ideas, and trends.
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How .s. Lost Out on Iphone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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Quantum Computing Could Head to 'the Cloud,' Study Says
A novel high-speed, high-security computing technology will be compatible with the "cloud computing" approach popular on the Web, a study suggests.
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Inside the Mind of a Video Game Champ
If there is one general rule about the limitations of the human mind, it is that we are terrible at multitasking.
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Pnnl's Olympus Supercomputer Advances Science, Saves Energy
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory recently launched the 162-teraflop peak Olympus supercomputer, which is helping scientists do more complex, advanced research...
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Why The 'check Engine' Light Must Be Banned
It's pretty easy to dismiss the "check engine" light as just stupid, because, well, it is.
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Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform For Medical Robotics Research
University of Washington researchers have developed Raven, a robot with wing-like arms that will be sent to seven campuses across the U.S. and form the basis of...
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Choreographing Dance of Electrons Offers Promise in Pursuit of Quantum Computers
Princeton University researchers are studying ways to control the spin of electrons, a major step toward developing technology that can be used in quantum computers...
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Steve Ballmer Reboots
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...
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Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'warehouse' Computing
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.
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Patent Grants Hit All-Time High in 2011; Ibm Leads the Way
Patents were a hot-button issue in 2011, so there's no wonder so many companies were filling their portfolios with new intellectual property all year.
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New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms
Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information...
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Marines Want iPads to Control Robo-Copter Brains
It's been less than a month since the Marines flew their first robotic supply helicopter on its debut combat mission in Afghanistan.
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World's Largest Quantum Computation Uses 84 Qubits
D-Wave Systems' Zhengbing Bian and colleagues announced that they have carried out a calculation involving 84 qubits. The computation involved two-color Ramsey...
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Almost 1 In 3 U.s. Warplanes Is a Robot
Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes?
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