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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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Fast Fiber: Apps Coming at 70 Percent the Speed of Light
The speed of data transfer will rise dramatically as Gigabit Ethernet grows increasingly available.
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Multiview 3-D Photography Made Simple
Researchers have developed a system that helps users transform a regular camera into a light-field camera that can record high-resolution, multiview images.
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How Smart Technology Could Change Public Transit
Ryerson University professor Joseph Chow is working to improve Canada's urban transportation systems using data analysis and mobile computing.
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Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...
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NASA Issues Grand Challenge, Calls for Public, Scientific Help in Tracking Threatening Asteroids
NASA announced two programs that call on organizations around the world to help spot, track, and possibly alter the direction of asteroids headed for Earth.
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A New Era For Signatures
The market for e-signature software and services is poised for dramatic growth.
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Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great...
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3D Printing Powered By Thought
It's definitely not a bird. Nor is it a plane. The garish orange piece of plastic, small enough to hold in the palm of a hand, could pass for a missing limb of...
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.s. and Russia Sign Pact to Create Communication Link on Cybersecurity
The United States and Russia have agreed to use real-time communications about national security incidents to lower the risk of conflict in cyberspace.
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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
A researcher is trying to make deep learning more accessible to researchers.
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Mapping a Room in a Snap
Researchers have developed an algorithm that makes it possible to measure the dimensions of a room using a few microphones and a snap of the fingers.
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This Robot Wants to Beat You at Air Hockey
Researchers have developed an air-hockey robot that can change its strategy in response to the playing style of its human opponent.
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Mathematical Algorithms Cut Train Delays
New software is reducing delays and waiting times for commuters using railways in European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, and Greece.
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Nasa Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.
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Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
The Tempest—wingspan 3.2 metres, cruising speed 75 knots—was designed to fly into severe storms.
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The Limitations Of Crowdsourcing: On The Hunt For The Boston Bombers
Crowdsourcing demonstrated some of its limitations after the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Materials Scientists Build Chlorophyll-Based Phototransistor
A newly developed method incorporates chlorophyll into graphene transistors to make light-activated switches.
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