If you like to think of the processor running your smartphone as the nerve centre of your device, wait until you see what Steve Furber's got in mind. The computer engineer, probably best known for his work on the BBC Micro and ARM microprocessors, has begun construction of a 1-billion-neuron
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You might think Google knows all there is to know, but apparently Google doesn't think so. The company is now seeking to know the unknowable, having just sunk an undisclosed amount
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Fibre-optic cable has exponentially increased the speed at which we can transfer data over the decades, but as we stream more and more services through a single fibre cable, we can expect all that information to start bottlenecking at some point. To keep that from happening,
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In the US, North Carolina State University researchers have made a big breakthrough in data storage tech, and it's all thanks to some very tiny dots. Using nanodots - tiny nanoscale magnets - the team has manufactured
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If information is power, then encryption is the key to the kingdom. Last week Toshiba tested a quantum broadband link so secure it's theoretically unbreakable. Now a researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney has devised an even more sophisticated
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It's one thing to tell someone how you feel, but seeing is believing. So their inability to see the face and body language of other people can potentially leave visually impaired people
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial diagnostic tool and an all-around cool technology that creates three-dimensional views of living tissues without being invasive or harming living tissues. But MRI is also limited; while telescopes see further and further
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A team of researchers from Japan and the US have built a molecular computer whose operation mimics a human brain. The tiny circuit, comprised of organic molecules on a gold substrate, is capable of super-fast concurrent calculations that
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MIT's experimental motion sensor would use simple physics to create a tiny, six-dimensional sensor that would cost ten times less than the usual motion sensors found in smartphones and air bag systems. It does that by replacing the intricate ballet of moving parts in motion sensors with a simple
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The initial fallout from a chemical or radiological attack would be devastating enough, but the cleanup of such an incident would be equally hazardous. While HAZMAT teams and other authorities have methods of scrubbing radiological and chemical waste, the porous nature
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If information is power, then encryption is the key to the kingdom. Last week Toshiba tested a quantum broadband link so secure it's theoretically unbreakable. Now a researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney has devised an even more sophisticated
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A year behind schedule, a team of French engineering students is finally preparing to send Nephelios, the solar-powered manned airship they've developed, on its maiden voyage across the English channel.
The ambitious project had aimed to accomplish
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JAXA, the Japanese space agency, has released the first photographs of the interior of the Hayabusa probe. Last week, we were starting to fear that the seven-year mission had returned to Earth without the crumbs of asteroid Itokawa that it had been sent for.
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If you like to think of the processor running your smartphone as the nerve centre of your device, wait until you see what Steve Furber's got in mind. The computer engineer, probably best known for his work on the BBC Micro and ARM microprocessors, has begun construction of a 1-billion-neuron
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider is currently the biggest science experiment in operation, but it may have to pass that mantle on soon enough. A collaboration between NASA and the ESA plans to launch
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Evasive speed demons may have a harder time avoiding a GPS-enabled speed camera which can capture license plate numbers under any weather condition, 24 hours a day. The new speed cameras in the UK use GPS satellites to help measure cars' average driving speeds over long
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During an average day of knocking electrons loose from their host atoms with high-energy lasers, a team of European physicists uncovered the shortest time interval ever measured in nature. At about 20 attoseconds, the
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MIT's experimental motion sensor would use simple physics to create a tiny, six-dimensional sensor that would cost ten times less than the usual motion sensors found in smartphones and air bag systems. It does that by replacing the intricate ballet of moving parts in motion sensors with a simple
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Researchers at IBM have created the most complex neurological map ever seen, detailing the comprehensive long-distance network that makes up the macaque monkey brain in
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In the US, North Carolina State University researchers have made a big breakthrough in data storage tech, and it's all thanks to some very tiny dots. Using nanodots - tiny nanoscale magnets - the team has manufactured
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The questions that plague particle physicists and cosmology buffs seem fundamental,
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We are all RoboCop
If you?re even slightly nauseated/hungover/susceptible to vertigo, this clip from a project at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London is not for you. Master?s student Keiichi Matsuda?s vision of a future mash-up of architecture, augmented
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Fewer wires mean less breakdowns and smaller packages
Wireless TV just got a whole new
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Figuring out how to recycle TPS reports and office printouts appears to have become a passion for Japanese engineers, as DigInfo News has discovered in recent days. If the "White Goat" machine that converts paper sheets into toilet paper failed to appeal, consider this
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Cave-texting device involves combination of computer and ham radio
Science fair projects don't
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Think that 9.7-inch iPad display is all the touchscreen you need? Portuguese company Displax would
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Leaping tall buildings, punching through solid concrete walls and using public phone booths
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Vancouver will host the largest "thought-controlled computing" installation ever
It wouldn't be the
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Google teams up with the NSA, the DoD invests in cyberdefense, smart-grid defense costs add up, and more
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Not content with space alone, the founder of Virgin Galactic wants to explore the oceans too
Billionaire
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