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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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Google's Street View Goes Into the Wild
Google's Street View maps are headed into the backcountry. Earlier this week, two teams from Google strapped on sophisticated backpacks jammed with cameras, gyroscopes...
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Federal Budget Limits Affect Scientific Conferences
The Obama administration recently imposed new guidelines that limit the amount of money federal agencies can spend on regional conferences. However, several science...
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In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get p to Speed
Intel made its fortune on the chips that power personal computers, and Microsoft on the software that goes inside. Google’s secret sauce is that it finds what you...
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Faster Chips 'cut Cloud-Computing Bills'
Researchers at Deutsch Telekom Laboratories and Aalto University have found that customers of Amazon's EC2 cloud service do not receive the same level of performance...
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A Bandwidth Breakthrough
Academic researchers have developed coded Transmission Control Protocol, a method for improving wireless bandwidth by one order of magnitude that involves using...
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Intel Strives to Develop Tiny Chips to Run Wearable Computers
Intel researchers are developing tiny microprocessors that would power wearable computers.
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Fighting Cybercrime, Making the Future More Secure
The European Commission plans to publish a European cybersecurity strategy focusing on preparedness, prevention, and response, as well as a permanent Computer Emergency...
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Software on Mars
With the AEGIS system, the Mars Exploration Rovers can autonomously select, capture, and analyze images using onboard logic.
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Control Without Controllers
Disney's Touché project could transform every conductive surface into a touch-control surface.
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On the Digital Trail
Forensics experts increasingly use data from digital devices to solve crimes, fight lawsuits, and unravel accidents.
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Google and Microsoft nder Threat from the March of the Mobiles
We're used to the idea of "peak oil"—that there's only a finite amount of that stuff in the ground. What's the equivalent in the computing field?
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Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy
Once a common medical procedure, the standard autopsy is passing out of use.
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Microsoft's Plan to Bring About the Era of Gesture Control
While most of the headlines about Microsoft this fall will concern its new operating system, Windows 8, and its new Surface tablet, the company is also working...
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ist Conference Presents Prototype Interface Projects
User interfaces have moved beyond mice and keyboards to touch screens, voice controls, and visual inputs like the Microsoft Kinect as was demonstrated at the recent...
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'live-Fire' Cyberwar-In-A-Box Tests Mettle of Military, It Pros
In August, a collection of military, government, and nongovernmental humanitarian organizations from 22 countries in the Pacific gathered in Singapore for Pacific...
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Preparing For Cyber War, Without a Map
The U.S. government's retaliatory capability in response to cyberattacks on critical infrastructure is limited by a dearth of technology.
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Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics
Researchers say spintronic technology could be used to make dilute magnetic semiconductors by adding a small amount of magnetic atoms to normal semiconductors,...
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Researchers Develop Fast Image Processing For Industry
Researchers at Sweden's Lulea University of Technology have developed LTU-CUDA, software for fast image-processing tasks.
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First Micro-Structure Atlas of the Human Brain Completed
European researchers working on the CONNECT project recently created the first atlas of white-matter microstructures in the human brain.
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