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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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What If a Virus Infected a Virus? 'frankenware' Spotted By Security Firm
It does happen, says security firm BitDefender, and the result is more mutant than mutt.
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Companies Worry About Sec's Advice to Disclose Cyberthreats
Deluged by cyberattacks they've mostly hidden from the public, companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are being prodded by federal regulators to finally fess...
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Computer Simulation of Tuberculosis Bacteria Could Lead to Discovery of New Ways to Fight Disease
Rutgers University researchers recently received a Lockheed Martin grant to continue their work using the Genetic Regulatory Analysis of Networks Investigational...
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Art-Ificial: The Virtual Virtuosos Redefining Creativity
Imperial College London computer scientist Simon Colton has created Painting Fool, software that can seek artistic inspiration and has basic creativity.
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Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes
Microsoft senior researcher Danah Boyd, a professor at New York University, is focusing on children and teenagers' use of social media.
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Smallest-Ever Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon
IBM researchers have developed a nine-nanometer carbon-nanotube transistor that performs better than any other transistor at its size.
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No More R
Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.
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Durable Nasa Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially...
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Serious Flaw Emerges In Quantum Cryptography
The perfect secrecy offered by quantum mechanics appears to have been scuppered by a previously unknown practical problem, say physicists.
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The Mathematics of Taste
The design of aromas—the flavors of packaged food and drink and the scents of cleaning products, toiletries and other household items—is a multibillion-dollar business...
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10k Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants...
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Google Looks to Speed Up the Internet
Google researchers want to overhaul the Internet's Transmission Control Protocol transport layer and have suggested ways to reduce latency.
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Next Generation of Supercomputers Requires Radical Redesign
The next generation of exascale supercomputers could complete one billion billion calculations per second, which would be 1,000 times faster than today's most powerful...
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Twitter Bots Create Surprising New Social Connections
A group of freelance Web researchers have created a Twitter bot, called a socialbot, that can fool users into thinking the bots are real people and serve as virtual...
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DARPA Set to Develop Super-Secure 'cognitive Fingerprint'
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers are developing security technologies that go beyond recognizing complex passwords.
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Hewlett Packard Opens Doors to Its HP Labs .K. Research Base
The year is 2015, and in a government-owned data centre somewhere in southern England thousands of servers are humming away, hard at work keeping the country running...
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Google Wants Ability to 'combine' Your ser Data
Google is planning to rewrite its privacy policy to grant it explicit rights to "combine personal information" across multiple products and services, the company...
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Organizations Capitalize on Collective Intelligence
Crowdsourcing facilitates service improvements, higher sales volumes, and engagement promotion, according to IBM research.
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