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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages … From ACM TechNewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Battery-Free Wearables of the Future Could Run Off Your Footsteps
Researchers at the University of Southampton have designed an insole to sit inside a person's shoe and harvest energy from their footsteps.
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Apple Says Constitution 'forbids' What Fbi Is Asking
Apple shouldn't have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California, terrorists because the Constitution forbids it, the...
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Techiest Super Bowl Ever: Silicon Valley's Stadium Girds For the Big Game
Levi's Stadium has been in beta since it opened a year and a half ago.
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...
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To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies
Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.
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Watch a Swarm of Drones Build a Rope Bridge
A team of drones has autonomously built a rope bridge, according to researchers at ETH Zurich.
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How Apple's Force Touch Could Change the Way You se Your Next Iphone or Ipad
Pressure-sensitive screens, haptic feedback: Why should you care?
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
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Natural Selection: Mama Robot Builds Self-Evolving Baby-Bots
The theory of natural selection popularised by Charles Darwin has now been demonstrated in robots.
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For Virtual-Reality Movies, Old Methods Don't Fit New Medium
I'm standing on the bow of what looks to be a sunken pirate ship.
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Mind-Controlled Telepresence Robots Could Restore Mobility to the Disabled
It may not be able to do grocery shopping or hang out laundry to dry, but a project involving current telepresence technology could help people with limited mobility...
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The Surreal Dreams of Google's Image Recognition Software
Image recognition is a complicated business. For Google, that means an artificial neural network—software capable of learning.
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Samsung, LG Smartwatches Give p Personal Data to Researchers
Researchers have shown they can extract personal information from two smartwatches because none of the data is encrypted.
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Americans Resigned to Giving p Their Privacy, Says Study
I am not fond of depressing you. So I'm going to leave it to a new study performed by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School For Communication.
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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Adios, Silicon: Why Exotic Designs Are the Future For the Chips in Your Gadgets
Most of us assume that smartphones and laptops will keep getting faster and better.
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Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Quest to Make Faster, Cheaper Gadgets
Mark Bohr peers through the yellow-tinted windows outside D1D, one of Intel's secretive computer chip factories housed at its 300-acre campus here, about a 30-minute...
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Nature's Patterns: Golden Spirals and Branching Fractals
Certain patterns, such as the fractal, are repeated over and over in nature—with some spectacular contrasts on wildly different scales.
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