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Supercomputer helps design more reliable AI for breast cancer diagnosis • Oct. 21, 2026, 10:38 AM ET (News-Medical)

Supercomputer reveals how size could shape the future of nanomedicine • Oct. 20, 2026, 4:20 PM ET (Phys.org)

Software advance brings complex quantum simulations to standard computers • Oct. 14, 2026, 3:00 AM ET (Phys.org)

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The Cray-1 supercomputer features a cylindrical core with vertical orange and red panels, surrounded by a padded black bench, set in a tiled computer room.

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World chess champion Garry Kasparov competes against IBM's Deep Blue chess computer during their 1997 rematch in New York.

See researchers simulate the 3-D motion of the human rhinovirus using IBM Blue Gene Q supercomputer to understand how the virus works

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Technician operates the system console on the new UNIVAC 1100/83 computer at the Fleet Analysis Center, Corona Annex, Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach, CA. June 1, 1981. Univac magnetic tape drivers or readers in background. Universal Automatic Computer

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The iPod nano, introduced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in San Francisco, May 2007. A revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs and is thinner than a standard #2 pencil. MP3 player, music player, digital music

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