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#nanowireporn
A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
Researchers at IBM are farming nanowires, growing wires a thousand times thinner than a human hair like microscopic silicon bonsai trees. This image shows the wires sprouting silicon. More » -
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Moore's Law Won't Create The Singularity On Its Own
Moore's Law, which predicts a doubling of transistor density every 18 months, won't give us superhuman intelligence in a reasonable timeframe by itself, says author Vernor Vinge in this new video from the Ideas Project. More »


