News tagged with gates
Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends'
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Bill Gates: Better data mean better schools
(AP) -- The U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and by developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers, Microsoft co-founder ...
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Google CEO: New operating system changes the game
(AP) -- Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt can't wait for the Internet search leader's free operating system to debut next year.
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Google, Microsoft chairmen share laugh together
(AP) -- The escalating tension between Google and Microsoft didn't prevent the companies' chairmen from sharing a moment of levity Thursday at an exclusive media conference in the Idaho mountains.
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Physicist takes a quantum leap
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Queensland physicist is seeking answers to a persistent problem throughout human history: how do I compute things? None, however, have had the same impact as what we today know as simply the ...
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In ...
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Gates approves creation of new cyber command
(AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the creation of a new military cyber command that will coordinate the Pentagon's efforts to defend its networks and conduct cyberwarfare.
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Famed TED talks available in multiple languages
The organizers of the famed annual TED conferences on Wednesday began making the thought-provoking lectures by giants of technology, science and the arts available in dozens of languages.
May 13, 2009 |
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Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations Rewards Bold Ideas
Even in troubled times, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognize innovation for the betterment of mankind takes money. The Gates Foundation is providing $100,000 to 81 cutting edge health researcher ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Obama names first US Chief Technology Officer
US President Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard-educated Indian-American to the newly created post of Chief Technology Officer in an appointment much-awaited by Silicon Valley.
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Is India the future for tech?
The recent hubbub about cloud computing -- how to define it and where it's heading -- has me wondering something. What about India?
Apr 01, 2009 |
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'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust “quantum gates,” which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits. Quantum circuits, someday, will be used to ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Scientists create working artificial nerve networks
Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such as blindness or epilepsy. In the ...
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Measuring quantum information without destroying it
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the Holy Grails - so to speak - of science involves building quantum computers that can perform, with accuracy, the computations too advanced and too large for classical computers. While we remain ...
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Scientists Propose Thermal Memory to Store Data
Most computers today store memory electronically, by maintaining a certain voltage. In contrast, a new kind of memory that stores data thermally, by maintaining temperature, is being investigated by researchers Lei Wang of ...
Jan 07, 2009 |
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