The Race to Build the World’s Greatest Supercomputer
This spring, the United States’ Department of Energy announced that it was going to spend $200 million to build the fastest supercomputer in the world, by 2018. And when that supercomputer, Aurora, first starts up, there’s no guarantee that it’ll be on top for long, either.
May 23, 2015 at 07:59AM
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Deploy the Anti-Goose Drones! And More From the Future of Flying
What will those crazy kids think of next? Airbus persistently asks just that, soliciting students from around the world to submit ideas that can help make commercial air travel more efficient and sustainable someday.
May 23, 2015 at 07:24AM
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Make Your Phone Unusable
This is like a juice cleanse, but for your horrible, technology-addicted brain that compels you to open an app every time you start to feel feelings. “Oh I just won’t look at my phone all weekend,” the hell you won’t look at your phone.
May 22, 2015 at 03:45PM
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Hillary Clinton E-Mails: State Department Releases Hundreds of Messages About Benghazi
Today the State Department has released 296 emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail account related to the Sept. 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
May 22, 2015 at 12:23PM
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Step Inside This 3D Rendering Of A Van Gogh Painting
Animator Mackenzie Cauley created the virtual diorama by painstakingly picking apart the elements of the original painting, and then digitizing them with the help of 3D software. Read more on New Scientist.
May 22, 2015 at 10:22AM
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Oh Look, More Evidence Humans Shouldn’t Be Driving
We are terrible at keeping our eyes on the road — a fundamental prerequisite for good driving. We text. We read email. We check Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We take selfies, shoot video, and video chat. And “we” means most of us.
May 22, 2015 at 06:25AM
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Artificial Sexuality: a roundtable discussion on screwing robots
If true artificial intelligence is ever achieved, what role will their potential sexuality play? We asked the experts to weigh in.
May 21, 2015 at 08:26PM
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Inside the labs where Netflix is trying to make televisions suck less
Where the company is trying to shape the future of its service, and the next TV you buy.
May 21, 2015 at 05:30PM
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Your Home Doesn’t Matter for Tesla’s Dream of a Battery-Powered Planet
While the pairing of home batteries with solar power makes deeply intuitive sense, the problem is that it doesn’t make financial sense. Not now, not anytime soon, and definitely not in the US.
May 21, 2015 at 03:48PM
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Falling In Love With A Hard Drive
For me, as for so many, it began with an external hard drive. Its name was “Dante.”
May 21, 2015 at 02:48PM
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