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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping
In the early 1970s, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off the eastern coast of Russia, providing a vital communications...
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Icann President Sees Growth and International Acceptance
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has embarked on a path toward becoming a more international organization over the past year.
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Sensitive Piano Keys Let Pianists Create New Sounds
A new keyboard that uses touch-detecting sensors to bring the sound of string instruments to the piano.
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Small, Electric-Powered Nano-Lasers May Help Keep Moore’s Law Valid
A seven-year research project has resulted in an electrically powered nano-laser that would let developers put even more lasers in the same space.
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Bug Bounty Programs Beat Internal Researchers
A new study suggests that paying external parties to discover bugs is worth it.
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How Scientists Search For Habitable Planets
There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life.
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Who Scores Games By Hand Anymore?
The first thing Bruce Levy did upon recent entry into Yankee Stadium while accompanied by his in-laws and teenage son was to purchase a program in the area of the...
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Collect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
Lifelogging attempts to capture, interpret, and supplement memories.
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Id Got You, Under the Skin: Automated Thermal Face Recognition Based on Minutiae Extraction
A thermal-imaging scan for instantaneous face recognition could be the next advance in biometrics.
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What Is Graphene? Here's What You Need to Know About a Material that Could Be the Next Silicon
Graphene, an emerging material that could change the way electronic components are made and help computing performance continue to grow, is everywhere in the research...
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How the .s. Forces Net Firms to Cooperate on Surveillance
By wielding a potent legal threat, the U.S. government is often able to force Internet companies to aid its surveillance demands.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving
The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer (about 0.62 mile).
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New Model to Improve Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for 'Intelligent Transportation'
A newly developed model improves the clarity of vehicle-to-vehicle transmissions needed to make intelligent transportation a reality.
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'virtual Lolita' Aims to Trap Chatroom Pedophiles
Negobot, a "virtual Lolita" robot, poses as a 14-year-old girl and tries to identify pedophiles in online chatrooms.
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Daydreaming Simulated By Computer Model
A new virtual model of the human brain daydreams like people do.
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TV White Space Pilot Targets Connectivity Gaps at U.S. University
West Virginia University recently announced plans to use vacant broadcast TV channels for wireless broadband services with its TV white space test network.
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Zombies Offer Fresh Insight Into Crowd Behaviour
A new computer game simulates a zombie invasion, in order to gather data on crowd behavior and the impact of stress on decision-making.
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The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.
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Writing Programs Using Ordinary Language
In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's...
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