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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Into the Bitcoin Mines
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots
The Schaft robot developed by Japanese researchers dominated the U.S. Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge 2013 Trials.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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Bitcoin Collides With Government Concerns
If Bitcoin is a bubble, as its critics contend, it is showing signs of deflation.
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Officials Say .s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.
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Tech Giants Issue Call For Limits on Government Surveillance of Users
Eight major technology companies on Monday called on the Obama administration and Congress to set limits on government surveillance activities.
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Google Puts Money on Robots, sing the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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When Algorithms Grow Accustomed to Your Face
Computer software currently exists that can read subtle, millisecond-long facial cues of a person's emotions via frame-by-frame video analysis.
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Willis Ware, Who Helped Build Blueprint For Computer Design, Dies at 93
Willis H. Ware, an electrical engineer who played an important role in defining the importance of personal privacy in the information age, has died at age 93.
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China Launches Moon Rover Mission
China's latest display of ambition in space involves sending a Jade Rabbit roaming across the Bay of Rainbows.
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A Computer Academy in France Defies Conventional Wisdom
The new tuition-free computer academy called 42 aims to produce graduates more innovative, employable, diverse, and useful to the French economy.
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Nasa Probe May Help Solve Riddle of Mars's Missing Air
NASA's next mission to Mars aims to answer one question: What happened to the air that once made the surface habitable?
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Ibm Makes More Powerful Watson Available via the Internet
IBM announced that its Watson supercomputer will be available as a cloud service to third-party users at a significantly lower cost than in the past, marking the...
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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Big Data's Little Brother
David Soloff is recruiting an army of "hyperdata" collectors.
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Program Seeks to Nurture 'data Science Culture' at Universities
Academia at New York University, the University of Washington, and the University of California, Berkeley are collaborating on the Sloan Foundation's five-year...
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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