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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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Airline Pilots Forgetting How to Fly? Computer Controls Blamed
Are airline pilots forgetting how to fly? As planes become ever more reliant on automation to navigate crowded skies, safety officials worry there will be more...
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Mining Electronic Records Yields Connections Between Diseases
Danish scientists have devised a new way to connect the dots between diseases.
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Cryptocurrency
The bitcoin, a virtual medium of exchange, could be a real alternative to government-issued money—but only if it survives hoarding by speculators.
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New Supercomputer Benchmarks Overdue?
The yardstick used to identify the world’s best-performing supercomputers–the Linpack Benchmark–no longer reflects "real-world usage" and ought to be replaced with...
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Animated or Real, Both Are Believable
It is still possible to distinguish between a living, breathing character in a movie and an animated one—but it is getting harder.
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Feds, Eff Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on Nsa Spying
A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits...
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New Sensors Streamline Detection of Estrogenic Compounds
University of Illinois researchers have developed sensors that fluoresce in the presence of compounds that interact with estrogen receptors in human cells.
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Showcasing Award-Winning Scientific Visualizations
Argonne National Laboratory's computer visualizations of arterial blood flow and the dynamics of early galaxy formation both recently won Office of Advanced Scientific...
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Google, Opendns Add Geo Speed Boost to Net
OpenDNS, Google, and Verisign have built new technology into their Internet operations that is designed to accelerate the delivery of data worldwide.
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Astrophysicists Report First Simulation to Create a Milky Way-Like Galaxy
University of California, Santa Cruz researchers recently solved a long-standing physics problem by using Eris, a supercomputer simulation that created a spiral...
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Taking Mobile Applications Into the Cloud
Microsoft's Mobile Computer Research Center director Victor Bahl, speaking at the recent Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2011, discussed Project Hawaii, an initiative...
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Nasa Measures Irene's Record Rain Totals From Space
NASA has totaled the impressive rainfall from Hurricane Irene using highly precise microwave measurements from a satellite.
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Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth And Moon
On its way to the biggest planet in the solar system—Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft took time to capture its home planet and its natural satellite—the moon.
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Milky Way Galaxy Re-Created
How long does it take to simulate the Milky Way? The answer is about nine months, if you're using a powerful supercomputer.
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Prof Explores Dynamics of Online Networking
University of Texas at Dallas professor Cuihua Shen has led a study of SourceForge, the Internet's largest open source community, using social network analysis...
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The First Fully Stretchable Oled
University of California, Los Angeles researchers have developed the first fully stretchable organic light-emitting diode.
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Hanging Can Be Life Threatening
Although testing and static code analysis are used to detect and remove bugs in a system during development, problems can still occur once a software system is...
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Turning Data Into Democratic Action: Social Apps Lab at Citris
Current projects at the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society's Social Apps Lab include eradicating dengue...
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Dumping Friends on Facebook Helps Make You Secure
Arizona State University researcher Pritam Gundecha has developed a method for determining which Facebook friends are most likely to leak private information.
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