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You might think this would lead to much faster number-crunching over a regular computer and you'd be right, to a point.

A quantum computer can perform any operation a classical computer can, but its exponential speedups only take effect

So, in practice, classical computers will probably be faster and more practical than quantum computers for day-to-day operations

and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."


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#Light-Based Data Breakthrough Could Lead To Much Faster Computers Researchers say they have developed a method to store data permanently in a memory chip using light.

The breakthrough, published in the journal Nature Photonics, could lead to significantly faster computers in the future.

But computers are limited in their speed by the transmission of electric data between a processor


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Last but not least, computer algorithms help interpret the heat pattern differences as blood flow rate. Testing with the wearable device placed above the wrist veins of human volunteers showed how it could work in practice.


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which has led scientists to find ways of training the brain through computer-based games. e need a way of treating the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as problems with episodic memory,


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attains international master level without being told the rules In the last two decades computers have become exponentially more powerful,

Thanks to recent advances in computer speeds, these neural networks have grown in size and complexity, greatly increasing their power and proficiency.

but to demonstrate the potential power of computer learning. Neural networks like the one found in Giraffe are already outperforming humans in many areas of pattern recognition, with Google Deepmind matching game testers in classic Atari 2600 games.


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#Innovative Smart T-shirt for the posture correction How often, sitting at the computer or watching television, you will notice that you not are sitting correctly?


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Using an"Avatar"-like bio-robotic motor system that integrates a real muscle and tendon along with a computer controlled nerve stimulator acting as the avatar's spinal cord


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The transformation would present serious challenges for those who are unfamiliar with computers and mobile phones mainly older people living in rural areas.


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Smith and his colleagues ran a massive computer analysis to examine how brain connectivity patterns correlated with individual behavioral traits, such as age, socioeconomic status, history of drug abuse, personality traits and various


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In both, researchers used machine-learning and parallel processing techniques to"teach"computers to characterize microbiotic colonies


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The human brain is the most powerful computer known, an extraordinary assembly of living electrical circuits. To gain greater understanding of how the human brain works


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#3d Computer Chips Could Be 1, 000 Times Faster Than Existing Ones A new method of designing and building computer chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,

000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of, researchers say. The new method,

Reducing the distance between the two elements can dramatically reduce the time computers take to do their work

the three-pronged electrical switches that do the logical operations for computers. According to Moore's law, a rough rule first articulated by semiconductor researcher Gordon E. Moore in 1965, the number of transistors on a given silicon chip would roughly double every two years.

Beyond that, shrinking transistors to the bitter end may not do much to make computers faster. Long commute time The main roadblock to faster computers is not flagging processor speed,

but a memory problem, Shulaker said. Big data analysis requires the computer to draw some tiny piece of data from some previously unknown spot in truly staggering troves of data.

Then the computer must shuttle that information via an electrical signal back and forth across the (relatively) vast inches of wire between the computer's memory (typically a hard drive)

and the processors, facing the speed bump of electrical resistance along the entire path.""If you try to run that in your computer,

you would spend over 96 percent of the time just being idle, doing absolutely nothing,"Shulaker said."

the computer is still hogging power, even though it's not calculating a thing. Solving the memory-CPU"commute time,

That computer, however, was slow and bulky, with relatively few transistors. Now, they have created a system for stacking memory and transistor layers,


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and using a computer to identify when to deliver light to maintain a desired level of activity.


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So COTSBOT's advanced computer vision and learning algorithm allow it to learn to target crown-of-thorns starfish more accurately.


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These electrical signals the same as those a doctor looks at when running an electroencephalogram (EEG) test were sent to a computer,

systems (known as brain-computer interfaces) to move limb prostheses, such as a robotic arm. And last year, a paralyzed person used his brain to control an exoskeleton that allowed him to make the first kick of the 2014 World cup.

said that the work"is another step in demonstrating the feasibility of using brain-computer interfaces to control various devices that already exist."

or the development of a fully implantable brain-computer interface system may allow us to overcome this problem,


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the material most commonly found in today's computer chips. But to exploit graphene remarkable electronic properties in semiconductor applications where current must be switched on and off,


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and metamaterials offers tantalizing future prospects for technologies such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers.


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Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,

In classical computers data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:


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as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no band-gaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.


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which could bring superior computers, cryptography and communications technologies. Conventional computers use electrons to process information.

However, the performance might be ramped up considerably by employing the unique quantum properties of electrons


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Researchers in UCSB's Department of Electrical and Computer engineering are seeking to make computer brains smarter by making them more like our own Abstract:

what computers would require far more time and energy to perform. What are these functions? Well, you're performing some of them right now.

"Classical computers will always find an ineluctable limit to efficient brain-like computation in their very architecture,

The energy-efficient compact circuitry the researchers are striving to create would also go a long way toward creating the kind of high-performance computers

and giving a serious boost to future computers,"said Prezioso. In the meantime, the researchers will continue to improve the performance of the memristors,


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which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics.

Solving the Semiconductor Dilemma To get to faster and smaller computers one day, Yap says this study is a continuation of past research into making transistors without semiconductors.

And one day, all their tweaks could make for faster computers--and digital pinball games--for the rest of us s


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Rice university scientists make tantalum oxide practical for high-density devices Scientists at Rice university have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors.

"But this is a new way to make ultradense, nonvolatile computer memory, "Tour said. Nonvolatile memories hold their data even

unlike volatile random-access computer memories that lose their contents when the machine is shut down.


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Computer-assisted technology developed especially for this purpose combines the advantages of both methods and suppresses unwanted noise.


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the material most commonly found in today's computer chips. But to exploit graphene's remarkable electronic properties in semiconductor applications where current must be switched on and off


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#New optical chip lights up the race for quantum computer The microprocessor inside a computer is a single multipurpose chip that has revolutionised people's life,

and performing otherwise intractable mathematics that aren't possible for super computers. The fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments

much like they operate any other piece of software on a computer. They no longer need to convince a physicist to devote many months of their life to painstakingly build


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which is used to build magnetic hard discs in computers. They created holes, or antidots, in thin films of manganite.


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someday not too far off, let you roll up your computer like a piece of paper. But the basic science of how to get electrons to move quickly


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a computer then reconstructs the path those photons must have taken, which generates an image of the target material--all without the lens that's required in conventional microscopy."

"The computer does the imaging part--forget about the lens, "explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher."

"The computer emulates the lens.""Without a lens, the quality of the images primarily depends on the radiation source.


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#Pioneering research develops new way to capture light--for the computers of tomorrow Pioneering research by an international team of scientists,

data on a computer are processed still and stored electronically. The team of scientists from Germany and England have made a key breakthrough by capturing light on an integrated chip,

Our technology might also eventually be used to reproduce in computers the neural-type processing that is carried out by the human brain."


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the researchers used a computer to simulate the effect of heat on the individual lithium atoms that comprise a dendrite,


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"Electrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,


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Modern computers use this principle in practically Every bit (unit of measurement for the digital information content) and the almost unbelievable increase in performance over the last decade was based on a very simple rule:

because there is not just one storage device in our computers, but several optimised ones, depending on the task."


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For the last 20 years, scientists have been attempting to create quantum systems that will outperform traditional semiconductor-based computers, the development potential

The main problem preventing the development of these computers is the high sensitivity of the nanoworld to external influences that destroy quantum states.


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including computer chips and other optoelectronic components.""Our results demonstrate relatively fast modulation from fundamentally slow phosphorescent light emitters,

One example could be optical communications networks on computer chips. Prototype on-chip networks have used semiconductor lasers as light emitters.


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which holds the promise of solving problems a lot more efficiently than a classical computer. Physicists are now able to realize the basic building blocks,

It is designed to solve real-world optimization problems conventional computers are not able to tackle. All current approaches for adiabatic quantum computation face the same challenge:

"The step from mechanical calculators to fully programmable computers started the information technology age 80 years ago.


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and a simple design, Accion can batch-manufacture modules much like computer chips in quantities of around 200 at once.


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and think more like a brain than a standard computer. Such systems are already being developed,

offer many advantages compared to traditional electronic links found in today computers. Optical links can transmit more information over larger distances


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By strapping tiny computers and wireless radios onto the backs of giant flower beetles and recording neuromuscular data as the bugs flew untethered,


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Currently, colors on computer and iphone screens come from dye materials pre-placed on the pixels.


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In principle, they are miniaturized extremely electron storage units. qdots can be produced using the same techniques as normal computer chips.

In the long term, researchers around the world are hoping for true marvels from this new type of computer:

such as the factoring of large numbers, should be child's play for such a computer. In contrast, conventional computers find this a really tough nut to crack.

However, a quantum computer displays its talents only for such special tasks: For normal types of basic computations, it is pitifully slow w


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Unlike conventional computers that store data on transistors and hard drives, quantum computers encode data in the quantum states of microscopic objects called qubits.

Moreover, this specific type of quantum bit can be manufactured using a similar technology to that employed for the production of everyday computers,


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The research team will be presenting the Skinproject from March 16th to March 20th at the Cebit computer expo in Hanover (Stand E13, Hall 9). If a mobile phone rings during a meeting,

The research team will be presenting the Skinproject from March 16th to March 20th at the Cebit computer expo in Hanover (Stand E13,

Users can also design their iskin patches on a computer beforehand to suit their individual tastes. simple graphics program is need all you,

Korea, and beforehand at the computer expo Cebit, which takes place from the 16th until the 20th of March in Hannover (hall 9, booth E13) 0


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what computers would require far more time and energy to perform. What are these functions? Well, youe performing some of them right now.

the resulting device would have to be loaded enormous with multitudes of transistors that would require far more energy. lassical computers will always find an ineluctable limit to efficient brain-like computation in their very architecture,

The energy-efficient compact circuitry the researchers are striving to create would also go a long way toward creating the kind of high-performance computers

and giving a serious boost to future computers, said Prezioso. In the meantime, the researchers will continue to improve the performance of the memristors,


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which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics.

Solving the Semiconductor Dilemma To get to faster and smaller computers one day, Yap says this study is a continuation of past research into making transistors without semiconductors.


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Optical technologies offer an enormous potential especially in transmitting data between computer chips, explains Manfred Kohl of the KIT.

At the present time, some 10 percent of the electricity in Germany is consumed by information and communication technologies, such as computers and smart phones of users,

but also by the servers in large computer centers. As data traffic grows exponentially, new approaches are necessary to increase throughput and, at the same time, curb power consumption.


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See explained. f you put the photonic crystal-enhanced quantum dot into a device like a phone or computer,


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The scientists experimented with silicon structures used in computer chips that power computers, tablets and mobile phones,


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#Scientists make tantalum oxide practical for high-density devices Scientists at Rice university have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors.

"But this is a new way to make ultradense, nonvolatile computer memory, "Tour said. Nonvolatile memories hold their data even

unlike volatile random-access computer memories that lose their contents when the machine is shut down.


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With computer software, the researchers translated the robots center of pressure to the platforms motors,


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#New optical chip lights up the race for quantum computer The microprocessor inside a computer is a single multipurpose chip that has revolutionised people's life,

and performing otherwise intractable mathematics that aren't possible for super computers. The fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments

much like they operate any other piece of software on a computer. They no longer need to convince a physicist to devote many months of their life to painstakingly build


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#New research could help build computers from DNA Scientists have found a way to'switch'the structure of DNA using copper salts

and in DNA-based computing-where computers are built from DNA rather than silicon. It could also be used for detecting the presence of copper cations,

Logic gates are an elementary building block of digital circuits-used in computers and other electronic equipment. They are made traditionally using diodes or transistors


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and computer engineers at North carolina State university have developed a new technique for creating less-expensive, low-power embedded systems-the computing devices found in everything from thermostats to automobiles."


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and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same photolithography techniques used to manufacture computer microchips."


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and Xin decided to use existing data to train computer algorithms to make predictions of new materials,


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and metamaterials offers tantalizing future prospects for technologies such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers.


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During the last decades these computers have become more and more powerful by integrating ever smaller components on silicon chips.

This is very difficult for a regular computer, while humans and possibly also our circuits can do this much better."


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and re-scan it repeating the process until the desired spatial resolution is achieved before combining the data from each scan using a computer algorithm.


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This is an important step on the way towards optical computers. Phase change materials that change their optical properties depending on the arrangement of the atoms allow for the storage of several bits in a single cell.

With optical elements, computers can work more rapidly and more efficiently. Optical fibers have long since been used for the transmission of data with light.

But on a computer, data are processed still and stored electronically. Electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.

To overcome this so-called Von neumann bottleneck, it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor,

Permanent all-optical on-chip memories might considerably increase future performance of computers and reduce their energy consumption.


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a computer then reconstructs the path those photons must have taken, which generates an image of the target material--all without the lens that's required in conventional microscopy."

"The computer does the imaging part--forget about the lens, "explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher."

"The computer emulates the lens.""Without a lens, the quality of the images primarily depends on the radiation source.


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#Pioneering research develops new way to capture light-for the computers of tomorrow The key breakthrough will allow large quantities of data to be stored directly on an integrated optical chip,

data on a computer are processed still and stored electronically. The team of scientists from Germany and England have made a key breakthrough by capturing light on an integrated chip,

Our technology might also eventually be used to reproduce in computers the neural-type processing that is carried out by the human brain.


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they can be arranged within the gel in practically any design that can be created on a computer.


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Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,

In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:


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"Electrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,


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and the calibration of the visual signals is integral to the map building process of the computer algorithm.

The computer navigation system assists the robot in situations where it is lost in a new environment,


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Modern computers use this principle in practically Every bit (unit of measurement for the digital information content) and the almost unbelievable increase in performance over the last decade was based on a very simple rule:

because there is not just one storage device in our computers, but several optimised ones, depending on the task."


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as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no band-gaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.


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"Background In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:

As a result, quantum computers will exceed far today's most powerful super computers, and offer enormous advantages for a range of complex problems,


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because it explores the world of'matter computers, 'where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.


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Moreover, we were able to confirm that the alternative analytical method they proposed could not reliably detect very obvious computer-generated complementary visual field pairs,


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This system, called Geos, uses a combination of computer vision to interpret diagrams, natural language processing to read

the computer roughly achieved an SAT score of 500 (out of 800), the average test score for 2015.

Our biggest challenge was converting the question to a computer-understandable language. One needs to go beyond standard pattern-matching approaches for problems like solving geometry questions that require in depth understanding of text, diagram and reasoning.


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Computation used a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics and the Campus Champion Allocation for Tufts University TG-TRA 130003 at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment,


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claiming it will be as handy as the right mouse click is on a computer. While Apple fiddling around with the screen technology,


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Traditional computers rely on ordered circuits that follow preprogrammed rules, but this strategy limits how efficient they can be. he best microprocessors you can buy in a store now can do 1011 operations per second

the algorithm found the voltages that transformed the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of conventional computer chips.

which are difficult for computers that do calculations one after the other. If a whole clump of grains is doing the calculation,


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Traditional computers rely on ordered circuits that follow preprogrammed rules, but this limits their efficiency. he best microprocessors you can buy in a store now can do 1011 operations per second,

The team was able to find voltages to transform the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of computer chips.

Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.


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While optical fibers have long been used for the transmission of data with light, inside a computer

But electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.

The scientists conclude that permanent all-optical on-chip memories could onsiderably increase future performance of computers while reducing their energy consumption.


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much like they operate any other piece of software on a computer. They no longer need to convince a physicist to devote many months of their life to painstakingly build


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all you need is a computer and time. An organization called the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is looking for volunteers from all over the world to look through satellite imagery of Nepal and label and map roads, buildings,


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Nanotechnology could be used to build the embedded control system, sensors and computers for any liquid metal robot.


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#New Japanese Glasses Block Facial recognition Computers are really, really good at recognizing faces. Refined through work on millions of uploaded and tagged faces at sites like Facebook and elsewhere,

Previous attempts to hide faces from computers have resorted to eye-catching makeup or dangling lights from baseball caps.


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It not likely that your next computer will store your data in DNA. It still prohibitively expensive,


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The company has been part of computer history and known for developing such famous names as Mark 1, PC, ig Blue, and Watson.

what we currently do today with computers. But while this may be possible, Dr. Narayan wonders if this might be the best approach.


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For now, the devices need to be attached to a computer using a thin cable, but could someday connect wirelessly via Bluetooth,


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when an adversary is able to remotely access a computer, bypassing authentication such as a login screen.

%Their findings are reported in an invited presentation at the 22nd Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications security, Denver."


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as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no band-gaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.


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including computer chips and other optoelectronic components.""Our results demonstrate relatively fast modulation from fundamentally slow phosphorescent light emitters,

One example could be optical communications networks on computer chips. Prototype on-chip networks have used semiconductor lasers as light emitters.


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There is increasing evidence that computer-assisted training can help people with schizophrenia overcome some of their symptoms, with better outcomes in their daily lives.


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After creating the tattoo-like designs on a computer, a laser cutter traces out the design

The current prototypes are wired to a computer, although the technology could evolve to use integrated microchips.


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and shared by a global network of computers and therefore is virtually tamper-proof. The Bank of england has dedicated a team to it


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and computer laptops if you have the technical know-how. Most of the time, communications are approved officially by NASA.


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While this means the method won be suitable for sending data from wearable devices to remote gadgets (such as audio speakers or a computer), for personalised applications,


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Chess-playing computers aren't new of course-IBM's Deep Blue scored the first AI triumph over a human world champion by beating Garry Kasparov in 1997-but Lai's approach works differently.

Right now, Giraffe's main drawback is that it takes longer than other computer players to make a move,

his research may help computers get better at teaching themselves to do everything from driving a car to making an omelette,


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Light-based computers are increasingly looking like our best shot at clearing the biggest roadblock to faster computers:

Right now, the speed at which our computers transmit data is slower than the speed at

"Making light-based computers isn as simple as replacing electrons with light particles-or photons-in current computers.

when the data reaches our computer. This slows everything back down again and consumes a whole lot of extra energy,

Instead, we need to completely redesign the way our computers work, running them on light instead of electricity,

and this new light-based computer chip brings us one step closer to that goal. Known as photonic memory, light-based memory is not a new concept,

Not only have previous attempts at light-based computer chips turned out to be quite volatile, theye all required power to store data,

and unless wee prepared to keep our computers on, you know, forever, that not exactly practical.


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