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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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Meet Arm's Cortex A15: The Future of the Ipad, and Possibly the Macbook Air
In addition to unveiling its Cortex A7 processor last Wednesday, the press event was also a sort of second debut for the Cortex A15. The A15 will go into ARM...
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Intel Faces Colossal Clash
Written off by some critics as a doomed dinosaur, stuck in the tar pit of a stalling personal computer market, Intel is headed for a colossal clash as it scrambles...
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Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female
To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual "assistant" who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby...
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Risky Business
Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution?
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Hacking Cars
Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?
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Modeling Chaotic Storms
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them...
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Precision-Controlled Microbots Show They Could Take On Industrial-Scale Jobs
A pioneering research institute that introduced the computer world to the mouse, hypertext, and networks is now setting its sights a bit lower.
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Tiny Stamps for Tiny Sensors
Advances in microchip technology may someday enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases—sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer...
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Virginia Tech Cybersecurity Breakthrough Keeps Sensitive Data Confined in Physical Space, Engineering Team Says
Virginia Tech researchers have developed new security features that can remotely place smartphones under lockdown.
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Kurzweil Responds: Don't nderestimate the Singularity
Paul Allen and a colleague recently challenged inventor and author Ray Kurzweil's prediction that computers will soon surpass human intelligence, an event known...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops Touchscreen Technology That Distinguishes Taps By Different Parts of Finger
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed TapSense, a system that combines a microphone with a touchscreen to distinguish the difference between the...
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A Picture of Democracy
How digital cameras and smartphones might reduce corruption in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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High Demand For Science Graduates Enables Them to Pick Their Jobs, Report Says
Science and engineering graduates are in high demand in a wide variety of fields, and many English-speaking science graduates are taking jobs in nonscience fields...
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New Project to Tackle Data Deluge: Eudat--Towards a Pan-European Collaborative Data Infrastructure
The recently launched EUDAT project aims to provide Europe's scientific and research communities with a sustainable European-wide infrastructure for improved access...
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Hyperlinking Doesn't Constitute Defamation, Supreme Court of Canada Rules
The Supreme Court of Canada has erected a shield to protect those who post Internet links to defamatory sites.
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Faq on Son of Stuxnet
What is Duqu? Duqu (pronounced dyu kyu) is primarily a remote-access Trojan targeted at a limited number of organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East...
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Jobs Tried Exotic Treatments to Combat Cancer, Book Says
In his last years, Steven P. Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new...
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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion...
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Stanford Engineering's New Online Classes: Hugely Popular and Bursting With Activity
About 300,000 students have registered for Stanford University's first set of comprehensive, free online computer science courses, which include courses in databases...
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