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BeagleBone Black: A Maker’s Dream?
If Arduino is too underpowered and Raspberry Pi doesn’t have enough hardware inputs for you, BeagleBone’s $45 microcontroller board will let you have your cake and eat it too.
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Kurzweil Responds: Don't Underestimate the Singularity
Last week, Paul Allen and a colleague challenged the prediction that computers will soon exceed human intelligence. Now Ray Kurzweil, the leading proponent of the “Singularity,” offers a rebuttal.
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The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation
If the cosmos is a numerical simulation, there ought to be clues in the spectrum of high energy cosmic rays, say theorists
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SAP Makes Big Data Real– And Real-Time
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How iTunes Genius Really Works
An Apple engineer discloses how the company’s premier recommendation engine parses millions of iTunes libraries.
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Why Our Universe Must Have Been Born Inside a Black Hole
A small change to the theory of gravity implies that our universe inherited its arrow of time from the black hole in which it was born.
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A New Way to Deal with the Cargo Container Security Problem
Can a single machine solve the complex problem of scanning cargo containers for conventional and nuclear weapons?
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What Will Hackers Do with the New Kinect?
Upgraded robot vision will be just one of the uses for the new version of Microsoft’s gesture control camera.
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