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Purdue Newsroom — New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chipsPurdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips. The fins are made not of silicon, like ...
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Google's Chrome OS revealed -- with video! -- EngadgetGoogle had a low-key event today to preview Chrome OS, its new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. Things are still pretty early -- it's not even in beta yet, let alone on shipping products -- but that's the first official screen shot right there, and the big features are all ...
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Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots - Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewScientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society. The report will include concerns some researchers have voiced about the legal and ethical use of artificial intelligence. Most computer ...
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IBM parks beta cloud on development and test servers • The RegisterIBM on Thursday kicked off a free public beta of a new cloud computing development and test environment that's hosted on Big Blue's machines. The company also added new tools and services made special for testing cloud-based apps in a private cloud. IBM Smart Business Development and Test on ...
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46ARM Joins The Linux FoundationThis is a significant move for ARM, considering that Linux installations on ARM hardware have been going on for a some time and long-term use of Linux on the ARM processor platform is most likely to continue to become more widespread.macbraughton added 2 months ago
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Global Guerrillas: The US, GLOBALIZATION and the RED QUEENThought this might be tangentially relevant on these twines.Buck Little added 2 months ago
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Talking paperclip inspires less irksome virtual assistant - tech - 29 July 2009 - New ScientistTwine is also related to some of the technologies in the CALO project. Radar Networks consulted to the project in the early days of own R&D and we helped to develop some of the semantic platform, ontologies, and desktop apps in CALO. Very proud of the project and all the good press it has been getting....Nova Spivack added 3 months ago
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Transcending Moore's Law: Is This the Most Important Chart in the Technology Business?This is why I am a computer and Internet industry entrepreneur! Where else can you have so many new frontiers to work on? Every 10 years it's a whole new world of opportunity as hardware advances by leaps and bounds.Nova Spivack added 4 months ago
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Life ItselfThis book looks fascinating. I keep seeing references to it in emerging philosophical and scientific literature around artificial life and consciousness. It relates heavily to Stephen Wolfram's concepts around computational irreducibility and computational equivalence. However at some level, I ...Nova Spivack added 5 months ago
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