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Computer software, or just software is a general term used to describe the role that computer programs, procedures and documentation play in a computer system.

The term includes:

Software includes things such as websites, programs or video games, that are coded by programming languages like C or C++.

"Software" is sometimes used in a broader context to mean anything which is not hardware but which is used with hardware, such as film, tapes and records.

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Eureqa, the robot scientist

Eureqa, the robot scientist (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new program, Eureqa, takes raw data and formulates scientific laws to suit, and it is available by free download to all scientists.


Bella Center in Copenhagen, the venue of upcoming COP15 Climate Summit

Silicon Valley getting greener with Hara

Space & Earth / Environment

created 19 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fresh from signing on to help green Silicon Valley, startup Hara will be at climate talks in Copenhagen this week to urge that corporations not wait for regulations to fight global warming.


A virtual physician's conference

A virtual physician's conference

Technology / Software

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Telemedicine facilitates communication between family physicians, hospitals and nursing services -- yet current solutions lack flexibility and are consequently very expensive. A new software program is now ...





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Nvidia, AMD shares jump after Intel scraps chip

Technology / Business

created 9 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies.


Rethinking artificial intelligence

Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5

The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...


Researchers show brain waves can 'write' on a computer in early tests

Medicine & Health / Research

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 4

Neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla., have demonstrated how brain waves can be used to type alphanumerical characters on a computer screen. By merely focusing on the "q" in a matrix of letters, ...



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