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Intel hopes to boost Stephen Hawking's speech to ten words per minute

By Sam Byford on January 20, 2013 01:39 am + 40 comments

Intel has worked on Stephen Hawking's speech technology for over a decade; the scientist, stricken Continue reading…
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Stephen Hawking as man and machine

By Amar Toor on January 9, 2013 03:51 am + 12 comments

Tuesday marked Stephen Hawking's 71st birthday, an occasion that anthropologist Hélène Mialet Continue reading…
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Stephen Hawking uses black hole to silence opera singer in British TV ad

By Dante D'Orazio on January 1, 2013 05:09 pm + 75 comments

Professor Stephen Hawking is an important man, but he managed to take the time out of his life to Continue reading…
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How RIM's Mike Lazaridis plans to turn Waterloo into the ‘Quantum Valley’

By Andrew Webster on September 24, 2012 01:30 pm + 51 comments

"What we have here is the Bell Labs of the 21st century," proclaimed Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and Continue reading…
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Paralympic opening ceremony turns stadium into Large Hadron Collider

By Louis Goddard on August 30, 2012 08:44 am + 2 comments

The opening ceremony for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London last night was a celebration of science Continue reading…
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Watch this: 'God, the Universe and Everything Else' with Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke

By Aaron Souppouris on July 22, 2012 03:09 pm + 32 comments

What better way to spend an hour than watching three of the greatest minds of our time discussing Continue reading…
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Stephen Hawking on how the Higgs boson discovery cost him $100

By Bryan Bishop on July 4, 2012 08:30 pm + 61 comments

This morning scientists at CERN announced that they had indeed discovered a new particle that Continue reading…
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Stephen Hawking's next machine: a 'Big Brain' supercomputer from SGI

By Kimber Streams on June 15, 2012 12:22 pm + 25 comments

Stephen Hawking's quite the techie — his next machine will be the "Big Brain," which creator SGI Continue reading…
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How the iBrain monitor could let Stephen Hawking speak by thinking

By Adi Robertson on April 4, 2012 09:42 am + 11 comments

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has seen his ability to communicate diminish as his Lou Gherig's Continue reading…
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The Intel engineer behind Stephen Hawking's computer

By David Pierce on January 11, 2012 11:09 pm + 10 comments

Stephen Hawking has fairly specific computer requirements. He writes books, travels the world to Continue reading…