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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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Csiro Telepresence Robots Connect Students With National Museum
Australia's National Museum has launched a trial that enables schoolchildren to remotely navigate its galleries via robots that contain telepresence technology. ...
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Copyright Ruling Rings With Echo of Betamax
Before Napster and LimeWire, before Megauploads and the Pirate Bay, media companies' epic struggle against copying, piracy and generally losing control over their...
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At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio is taking some time off from school in London, where he lives with his parents. He will let mom and dad help manage his money.
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Carnegie Mellon, Nsa Seek High School Hackers
Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking.
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Looking Back at Big Data
As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.
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Domestic Drones Stir Imaginations, and Concerns
On the pilot's computer screen, planted at ground level a few yards from the airport runway here, the data streaming across the display tracked an airplane at 1...
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How Nasa's Giant New Space Telescope Will Make Life on Earth Better
NASA is responsible for more Earth-bound technologies than just space ice cream; the organization's research has led to everything from new kinds of artificial ...
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Raspberry Pi Heads For the Open Ocean
Confronted with that tiny device, some have seen a way to play old arcade games, as a media server or to monitor their sleeping children. There are some that have...
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Sequester Cuts University Research Funds
The federal government is reducing support for academic laboratories across the United States to satisfy the sequester mandate to cut spending. The budget sequester...
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Cyberwar Manual Lays Down Rules For Online Attacks
Even cyberwar has rules, and one group of experts is putting out a manual to prove it.
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.
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Finally, A Robot Chimp that Turns Into a Tank
The harrowing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Chilean Copiapó mine collapse: extraordinarily dangerous circumstances...
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Israel Ramps p Its Cyberdefense Training
Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes.
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A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos.
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Star Trek 'holodeck' in the Living Room?
With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV screen, new technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards something even closer to real life...
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Making Music Wins Over Computer Science Majors
A hands-on music project as part of an entry-level digital music class helps students learn complex computer science concepts.
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Report Highlights Latest Data on Women, Minorities and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Women, persons with disabilities, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanics appear underrepresented in science and engineering education and jobs.
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Eu Commission Launches 'grand Coalition' to Tackle It Shortage
A grand coalition launched by the European Commission will address the IT skills shortage in the European Union.
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Massive Fiber-Optic Installation Lights p Library Queries
Getting a glimpse into the curious minds of others has never been so beautiful—or so bright.
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