Google's Deep Mind Gives AI a Memory Boost That Lets It Navigate London's Underground
The Deep Mind AI lab is giving deep learning a memory boost
Nolan Bushnell Says His New Virtual Reality Startup Has the Keys to the Holodeck—and it’s Portable
Startup Modal VR says it has built the closest thing yet to the holodeck—and wants to sell it to the business world
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Fujitsu Memory Tech Speeds Up Deep-Learning AI
Fujitsu's memory tech squeezes more efficiency from deep learning algorithms running on GPUs
Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning Upgrade
Google engineers balanced speed and accuracy to deploy deep learning in Chinese-to-English translations
Working Out With Intel and Oakley’s Chatty Radar Pace Augmented-Reality Smart Glasses
If your smart glasses contain a virtual companion who knows exactly what you are doing and has an opinion about it, are you living in an augmented reality?
New Memristor Circuit Mimics Synapses in the Brain
Engineers used memristors to accurately emulate a key part of learning and memory in the human brain
IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip Tested for Deep Learning
IBM's TrueNorth computer chip shows it can do deep learning despite not having been designed for it
The Megaprocessor Laughs at Your Puny Integrated Circuits
The wondrous insanity of a 42,300-transistor CPU the size of a room
3D-Printed Plastic Blocks Generate Complex Acoustic Holograms
Instead of an ultrasonic transducer array, you can now make tractor beams with some plastic and a 3D printer
New System Could Break Bottleneck in Microprocessors
Turning burdensome software into simple hardware speeds core-to-core communication in microprocessors
A Chip-Scale Source for Quantum Random Number Generators
Researchers build a photonic integrated circuit that could one day give smartphone security true random numbers
The Two-Camera iPhone 7 Plus Is Just the Beginning of the Camera Count Competition
Apple dips into the multicamera waters, while startup Light gets ready to ship a 16-camera device
The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
You thought it started with the Intel 4004, but the tale is more complicated
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Real-Time Crowd Simulator Could Help Prevent Deadly Stampedes
System collects real-time crowd data to help authorities predict and head off tragic stampedes that have left hundreds dead
The Nervana Systems Chip That Will Let Intel Advance Its Deep Learning
Intel's purchase of Nervana gives the tech titan ownership of a specialized chip designed for deep learning
A Peek Inside Andy Rubin’s Playground
Every tool a hardware engineer could want—plus swings and a slide
EFF Sues U.S. Government Over DMCA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Andrew “bunnie” Huang, and Matthew Green say the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s onerous copyright rules are unconstitutional
Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts
The last ITRS report forecasts an end to traditional 2D scaling
How the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Inched Toward the Exascale
The powerful Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer makes some telling trade-offs in pursuit of efficiency
Magic Leap Hiring Software Engineers for New Development Lab on Lucasfilm’s San Francisco Campus
What to do with Magic Leap’s augmented reality technology? Developers can ask Yoda.
DARPA Challenge Tests AI as Cybersecurity Defenders
The U.S. military wants to see autonomous artificial intelligence find and fix software exploits in just minutes or seconds
Use a GPU to Turn a PC Into a Supercomputer
For some applications, scientists find the humble GPU to be better and cheaper running their calculations than the mighty, conventional supercomputer
How We’ll Put a Carbon Nanotube Computer in Your Hand
Circuits built from carbon nanotubes will give silicon real competition
Europe Will Spend €1 Billion to Turn Quantum Physics Into Quantum Technology
A 10-year-long megaproject will go beyond quantum computing and cryptography to advance other emerging technologies
China's New Supercomputer Is World's Most Powerful
The 93-petaflop Sunway TaihuLight takes the top ranking
Kniterate Updates the Knitting Machine to Be an Easy-to-Use 3-D Printer for Fabric
Kniterate aims to make maker spaces a little cozier with printable knitwear
You’ve Got the VR Glasses—But Do You Have the VR Jacket?
Startup Machina says gamers need connected clothing to be fully immersed in virtual reality
Advanced Research Projects from DARPA's Pentagon Demo Day
DARPA shows off all of its cool new toys
IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud
The company hopes access to the five-qubit chip will help people learn to "think quantum"
The Ferranti Mark 1: World’s First Commercially Available General-Purpose Computer
It stored data in cathode-ray tubes and a rotating magnetic drum