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Sunday, November 3, 2013

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Synaptic transistor learns while it computes

Posted: 02 Nov 2013 06:55 AM PDT

It doesn't take a Watson to realize that even the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines. Our brains have upwards of 86 billion neurons, connected by synapses that not only complete myriad logic circuits; they continuously adapt to stimuli, strengthening some connections while weakening others. We call that process learning, and it enables the kind of rapid, highly efficient computational processes that put Siri and Blue Gene to shame.

Crashing rockets could lead to novel sample-return technology

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 02:23 PM PDT

In early 2013, University of Washington students launched rockets from kites and balloons into a dry Nevada lakebed, early tests of a concept to collect and return samples from forbidding environments.

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