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Mobile phones have increasingly become the repository for the details that drive our everyday lives. But Virginia Tech researchers have recently discovered that the same apps we regularly use on our phones to organize lunch dates, make convenient...
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USB flash drives are already common accessories in offices and college campuses. But thanks to the rise in printable electronics, digital storage devices like these may soon be everywhere -- including on our groceries, pill bottles and even...
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Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your pocket, or an artificial skin that can sense your body's...
Professor Kwabena Boahen has written “A Neuromorph’s Prospectus” outlining how to build computers that directly mimic in silicon what the brain does in flesh and blood. Credit: L.A. Cicero
Conventional computer chips aren’t up to the challenges posed by next-generation...
Test situation for this study.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Twente
Some electronic energy meters can give false readings that are up to 582% higher than actual energy consumption. This emerged from a study carried out by the University of...
Using advanced mathematics, researchers hope to create models of biological systems that can inform our understanding of normal development and disease.Credit: University of Michigan
What makes a cluster of cells become a liver, or a muscle? How do our genes...
Upping the ante on artificial intelligence: Michael Bowling (center) flanked by the co-authors of DeepStack.Credit: John Ulan
A team of computing scientists from the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group is once again capturing the world's collective fascination with...
In a study in Science, researchers Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski describe a new coding technique for maximizing the data-storage capacity of DNA molecules.Credit: New York Genome Center
Humanity may soon generate more data than hard drives or magnetic tape...
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Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as it computes".
Professor Ross D King and his team have demonstrated for the first time the...
A computer method called ZeitZeiger that uses a sample of blood to accurately predict circadian time - the time of day according to a person's body clock - is described in new research published in the open access journal...
The app records a cyclist's trip and uses the data of the movement and speed to track traffic congestion. Credit: Cornell Tech/Provided
Traffic jams are a huge problem for many large U.S. cities. Mismanaged transit in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles...
