What is the computational power of the universe?
Can a close look at the universe give us solutions to problems too difficult even for a planet-sized computer to solve?
General Physics
Nov 15, 2017
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Nanoscale 'abacus' uses pulses of light instead of wooden beads to perform calculations
The quest to develop ever-faster and more powerful computers has led to one of the most rudimentary methods of counting being given a 21st century make-over.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 2, 2017
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High-performance computing methods focus of new text
From your smartphone to your laptop, today's tech devices glean their computing power from multi-core processors. Supercomputers contain thousands of cores, and within three to four years a computer with 100 million cores—and ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 30, 2017
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A pirate site explores a new way of paying for the internet that doesn't involve ads
To say that advertising as the main business model of the internet is in a crisis would be an understatement. For a start, there is the fact that Google and Facebook between them suck up most of the revenue from digital advertising. ...
Internet
Sep 19, 2017
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Software on Mars rover allows it to pick research targets autonomously
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers form the U.S., Denmark and France has created a report regarding the creation and use of software meant to give exploratory robots in space more autonomy. In their paper published in the ...
What's holding up the blockchain?
It's not technology or regulation holding back the blockchain—software that stores and transfers value or data across the internet—we just haven't figured out the next big use case. Two reports released this week by the ...
Internet
Jun 8, 2017
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Cancer researchers tap human intuition of video gamers in quest to beat cancer
Video gamers have the power to beat cancer, according to cancer researchers and video game developers at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Software
May 16, 2017
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What's holding back self-driving cars? Human drivers
In just a few years, well-mannered self-driving robotaxis will share the roads with reckless, law-breaking human drivers. The prospect is causing migraines for the people developing the robotaxis.
Hi Tech & Innovation
May 11, 2017
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Researchers unlock hardware's hidden talent for rendering 3D graphics for science—and video games
When Shuaiwen Leon Song boots up Doom 3 and Half-life 2, he does so in the name of science. Song studies high performance computing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with the goal of making computers smaller, faster ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 20, 2017
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Workplace diversity will soon include artificial intelligence
A tsunami of change is already arriving. Artificial intelligence is now capable of doing desk jobs that were previously safe from automation. The social and economic effects remain to be seen, but is AI what we think it is?
Computer Sciences
Apr 6, 2017
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