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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Msu Collaboration Aims to Recruit More Women Into Engineering, Computer Fields
A new program seeks to boost the number of women in computing and engineering programs.
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Google Boosts Handwriting Feature in Google Translate
With Google Translate's new handwriting tool, users can draw an unfamiliar word or character on their Android smartphone or tablet and get a translation.
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Software Experts Attack Cars, to Release Code As Hackers Meet
Car hacking is not a new field, but its secrets have long been closely guarded.
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Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math
Are you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?
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Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...
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Self-Driving Cars Could Create 1Gbyte of Data a Second
Self-driving cars will come with a wide range of sensors, creating machine-to-machine data at the rate of 1Gbyte per second, according to BigData-Startups.com founder...
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Twitter Can Tell Whether Your Community Is Happy or Not
Researchers recently released a study on whether a community's sense of happiness could be determined from communications on Twitter. The study demonstrates that...
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Perfecting Digital Imaging
Harvard University researchers say they are developing computer graphics tools that narrow the gap between "virtual" and "real." One project tries to find better...
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How Samsung Is Beating Apple in China
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of...
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Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain
The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...
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Court Says Skipping Ads Doesn't Violate Copyright. That's a Big Deal.
In 1984, the Supreme Court rejected Hollywood's argument that the record button on the Betamax VCR made its manufacturer, Sony, liable for copyright infringement...
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Pin-Punching Robot Can Crack Your Phone's Security Code In Less Than 24 Hours
There's nothing particularly difficult about cracking a smartphone’s four-digit PIN code.
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A Digital Take on 'remembering the Alamo'
The Texas General Land Office is working with several Texas universities to preserve the Alamo through three-dimensional laser scanning and photogrammetry.
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Paypal Founder's Fellowship Hatches Medication Reminder App
Nightingale is an easy-to-use app that can provide customized medication reminders.
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IBM Taps Into Android Devices for Volunteer Computing Effort
Owners of Android-based smartphones and tablets can now "donate" surplus computing power from their devices to science.
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App Security Testing Tool
A new system for testing the security of apps is designed to provide developers with individual reports for every app and operating system.
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Disney Researchers Create Computer Models That Capture Style and Process of Portrait Artists
Disney researchers have developed computer models that learn an artist's drawing style.
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Software Employment Rises 45% in 10 Years, as Angst in Engineering Grows
IT employment has gone up and down over the past decade, but the only tech occupation that appears to have recovered to full employment is software developer, according...
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Solid State Drives Transform Data Centers
Enterprises increasingly are incorporating solid-state drive technologies into their data centers.
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