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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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The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far...
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Why Teens Are Tiring of Facebook
To understand where teens like to spend their virtual time nowadways, just watch them on their smartphones.
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How Much Does a Botnet Cost?
The cost of a botnet is contingent largely upon the physical location of the malware-infected computers inside of it.
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Small Gadgets That Make You Healthier
At any moment, someone in the U.S. most likely is having an asthma attack.
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Rodent Mind Meld: Scientists Wire Two Rats' Brains Together
It's not exactly a Vulcan mind meld, but it's not far off.
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New Technology for Animation Film Experts
Researchers have developed a technique for creating virtual worlds that they say will simplify the work of animators, and assist doctors and athletes with motion...
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'wet' Computer Server Could Cut Internet Waste
Researchers are testing a liquid-cooled computer server that they say could greatly reduce the carbon footprint of the Internet.
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Supercomputing Challenges and Predictions
The future of supercomputing likely will include improved weather forecasting and faster discovery of new drugs.
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Cloud se Grows, and So Does Security Threat
Holding everything from highly personal medical and social media material to confidential financial and corporate documents, Internet-based cloud services are gathering...
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Considering Data's Effect on Society
A group of academics, business executives, and journalists recently discussed how data can drive society.
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Vint Cerf Sees an 'Interspecies Internet' to Talk With Animals
Technology evangelists have proposed a new inter-species Internet that would facilitate communication between humans and animals.
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Wireless Connections Creep Into Everyday Things
A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner...
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Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started
Mobile computers are spreading faster than any other consumer technology in history.
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Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover
The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been...
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Connecting the Neural Dots
In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan...
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Teaching Robots Lateral Thinking
Many commercial robotic arms perform what roboticists call "pick and place" tasks: The arm picks up an object in one location and places it in another.
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China Has No Cyber Warfare Troops: Spokesman
A military spokesman said Thursday that China does not have any soldiers engaging in cyber warfare.
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Pushing the Wrong Button: Bad Button Placement Leads to Drone Crashes
Unmanned aircraft crash. In fact, they crash a lot—though there's no recent specific data, the Congressional Research Service reported last year that despite improvements...
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Lessons From Cockroaches Could Inform Robotics
Researchers studying how biological systems stabilize themselves, to help them design steadier robots, are testing how cockroaches maintain their footing.
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