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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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Digging For Drug Facts
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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Computer Science and the Three Rs
A growing sense of crisis prevails as computer science searches for its place in the K--12 curriculum.
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Nasa Actually Working on Faster-Than-Light Warp Drive
You know that scene in the film Contact where the "Machine" is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful...
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Big Data and Its Big Problems
Imagine every thousandth blood cell in your body has a tiny radio transmitter in it.
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Home Sweet Lab: Computerized House to Generate as Much Energy as It Uses
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology recently unveiled a laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical suburban home for a family of four...
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The Machines Are Taking Over
Giving computer programs the ability to educate students like a personal tutor is the goal of Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Neil Heffernan, whose efforts...
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Wired Is the New Wireless: Spreading the Web in China
Although 538 million of China's 1.3 billion people had access to the Internet as of June 2012, most of the country's population is still offline, which led Chinese...
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India Plans Fastest Supercomputer By 2017
India's Center for Development of Advanced Computing has drafted a proposal for developing a range of petaflop and exaflop computers over five years.
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Iran Preparing Internal Version of Internet
The Iranian government reportedly has established a technical platform for a national online network that would exist independent of the Internet and allow for...
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Watch Your Tongue: Law Enforcement Speech Recognition System Stores Millions of Voices
Intercepting thousands of phone calls is easy for government agencies. But quickly analyzing the calls and identifying the callers can prove a difficult task.
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Cameras Know You By Your Walk
Everyone knows how easy it is to recognize a friend or family member from their walk—even from a distance.
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Bionic Eyes: Sensors That se Lookout's Brainwaves to Spot Trouble
As good as surveillance technology has gotten at some tasks, computers still frequently fail when it comes to figuring out the difference between a threat and a...
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Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?
Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...
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Google Translates Java to Objective-C With J2objc Tool
Java developers can more easily build apps for the iPhone and iPad using a new open source command-line tool released by Google.
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'flame' Malware May Have Siblings, Study Finds
A new Flame malware report suggests that the malware's command-and-control interface was made to manage at least four different types of malware, meaning that there...
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Computer Simulations for Multiscale Systems Can Be Faster, Better, More Reliable
University of Oregon researchers have developed a method to reproduce the structure and thermodynamic qualities of large, multiscale systems at variable levels...
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Alan Turing at 100
Harvard University is celebrating Alan Turing's 100th birthday with a new exhibit titled, "Go Ask A.L.I.C.E., Turing Tests, Parlor Games, and ChatterBots," which...
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Icann Faces Battles Over New Web Domains
Former ICANN interim CEO Akram Atallah says ICANN does not plan to announce the results of any of the 1,930 new generic top-level domain submissions it received...
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