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IBM simulates 530 billon neurons, 100 trillion synapses on world’s fastest supercomputer

Kurzweilai: Announced in 2008, DARPA’s SyNAPSE program calls for developing electronic neuromorphic (brain-simulation) machine technology that scales to biological levels, using a cognitive computing architecture with 1010 neurons (10 billion) and 1014 synapses (100 trillion, based on estimates of the number of synapses in the human brain) to develop electronic neuromorphic machine technology that scales to biological levels.”

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Some of Google’s biggest rivals are taking its side in a Supreme Court battle

After nearly a decade, Oracle’s copyright lawsuit against Google is close to settling an important question: can you own the basic commands of a coding language

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A smartwatch packed with folding screens is a great idea for living in a future of stupid tech

IBM has a patent out there for a smartwatch packed with a bunch of folding screens, because the future is dumb as heck.

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The creation of the electronic brain

DCD reports on the epic decades-long quest to make computers more like the human brain. Early efforts brought us the deep learning revolution, neuromorphic computing could bring us so much more

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