The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

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Researchers Brad Theilman, center, and Felix Wang, behind, unpack a neuromorphic computing core at Sandia National Laboratories. While the hardware might look similar to a regular computer, the ...

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