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Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications
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- Written by Sarah Yang
Berkeley, California - Engineers have successfully married electrons and photons within a single-chip microprocessor, a landmark development that opens the door to ultrafast, low-power data crunching.
Since when is an emoji a word?
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- Written by Berkeley
Berkeley, California - You know something’s up when Oxford Dictionaries breaks with all tradition to name a pictograph - an emoji known as “Face with Tears of Joy” - as its Word of the Year.
DNA breakage underlies both learning, age-related damage
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- Written by Helen Knight
Cambridge, Massachusetts - The process that allows our brains to learn and generate new memories also leads to degeneration as we age, according to a new study by researchers at MIT.
Machines that learn like people
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Object-recognition systems are beginning to get pretty good - and in the case of Facebook’s face-recognition algorithms, frighteningly good.
Are you a “harbinger of failure”?
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Diet Crystal Pepsi. Frito Lay Lemonade. Watermelon-flavored Oreos. Through the years, the shelves of stores have been filled with products that turned out to be flops, failures, duds, and losers.
Detecting consumer decisions within messy data
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- Written by Rob Matheson
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Millions of people each month report positive and negative health care feedback across the Web. Some jump into forums to complain about ineffective prescriptions or to discuss which drugs are best to treat illnesses. Others take to blogs to describe symptoms and how to get relief.
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