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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Robots' Best Teachers Are Other Robots (in Cloud Networks)
Earlier this year, a vaguely humanoid robot served juice to a researcher lying on a hospital bed.
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Female Cyber Sleuths Hack Into Silicon Valley's Boys Club
One area of the tech world in which women are making great gains is information security, where they outnumber men in certain positions.
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Hospitals Are Mining Patients' Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick
Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership lapse, make a habit of buying candy bars at the checkout counter, or begin shopping at plus...
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The Bbc Doesn't Want to Be Forgotten By Google
Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google has received about 50,000 requests for...
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Can Google Design a Car Touchscreen That Isn't a Dangerous Distraction?
Automakers are increasingly integrating touchscreens into vehicles—to the dismay of safe-driving advocates, who justifiably fear people are already too distracted...
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Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.
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Can Hp Build the Computer of the Future?
On June 11, Hewlett-Packard revealed plans to make a new kind of computer that it's playfully calling The Machine.
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With 'the Machine,' Hp May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
If Hewlett-Packard founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.
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The Trouble With IBM
In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA.
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Samsung-Apple Smartphone Battleground Is Single Atom Thick
The main battleground between Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. in the global smartphone market is moving from courtrooms to the laboratory, amid a race for...
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Hackers Devise Wireless Methods For Stealing Atm Users' Pins
Pilfering the personal identification numbers of financial accounts, a potential jackpot for hackers, is tougher to pull off thanks to data encryption and other...
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The U.s. Government Wants 6,000 New 'cyber Warriors' By 2016
The Pentagon plans to triple its cybersecurity staff by 2016, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced recently.
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Stodgy, Old Baseball Invents the Future of Instant Replay
Major League Baseball is not inclined to tinker much with America's pastime, aside from the occasional tweak to the number of teams in the playoffs.
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Justice Scalia Looks Forward to Hearing Nsa Spying Case
Justice Antonin Scalia signaled during a law school talk on March 21 that the Supreme Court is very much aware that legal challenges to the National Security Agency's...
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With Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, a Virtual Battleground May Finally Be Here
Virtual reality has never quite materialized for most consumers.
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Cyberwar in kraine Falls Far Short of Russia's Full Powers
The tense on-the-ground standoff in Ukraine has already tipped into open hostilities online, with hackers targeting members of parliament and state agencies.
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Since It Can't Sue s All, Getty Images Embraces Embedded Photos
For the past decade or so, the best defense Getty Images could find against the right-click button on your mouse—home of the "copy" and "save" functions—has been...
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The nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World
This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company.
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Willow Garage's Last Days
In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.
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