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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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Attention to Detail, Noted in 313 Patents
When people in the technology industry speak of Steven P. Jobs’s knack for design, they often have Apple’s iconic products in mind: the early all-in-one Macintosh...
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'smart' Cctv Could Track Rioters
Researchers at Kingston University have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to recognise specific types of behaviour, such as someone holding a...
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Ben Fry, Information Designer
In the golden age of data visualization, he helps designers think like programmers, and vice versa.
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Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics
The energy of human motion could be used soon to power cell phones and other portable devices, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Tom Krupenkin...
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Personal Security
Researchers have developed a laptop-sized device that emits a jamming signal whenever it detects an unauthorized wireless link being established between a medical...
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Researchers Improving Gps Accuracy in the 3rd Dimension
Ohio State University researchers have developed software that can fix global positioning system errors by taking a more accurate measurement of altitude.
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Virtual Touch Helps Keyhole Surgeons to 'feel' Tumours
Leeds University researchers have developed tactile feedback technology that combines computer virtualization with a hand-held haptic device that gives doctors...
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When Algorithms Control the World
If you were expecting some kind warning when computers finally get smarter than us, then think again.
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IBM Work With World's Thinnest Material Seen Creating Faster Pcs
A one-atom-thick layer of carbon may one day help International Business Machines Corp. and the U.S. military build more precise radar and computers that operate...
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New Tool Allows First Responders to Visualize Post-Event Disaster Environments
During the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Level Exercise 2011, emergency preparedness officials and first responders used iPads and SUMMIT,...
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The New Big Data
Industry research and academic labs will present the latest big data techniques during the 17th ACM conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).
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Better 'photon Loops' May Be Key to Computer and Physics Advances
University of Maryland, Harvard University, and U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers are close to developing a method for steering photons...
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Could A Crypto-Computer in Your Pocket Replace All Passwords?
Cambridge University researcher Frank Stajano recently presented a paper on the Pico, a tiny, portable computer that functions as the authenticator for potentially...
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Computational Method Predicts New Uses For Existing Medicines
A recent National Institutes of Health-funded computational study analyzing genomic and drug data has been able to predict new uses for existing medicines.
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Judge Says Warrant Required For Cell Phone Location Data
In recent years, the courts have struggled to decide whether the government needs a warrant to access historical records about a cell phone user's location. Some...
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Robonaut Wakes Up In Space
After months of patiently snoring away in its storage bag, Robonaut 2—the first dexterous humanoid robot in space—finally got its wakeup call on Monday.
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A Turbulent End to the Pc Era
The personal computer recently celebrated its 30th birthday. Then last week, Silicon Valley staged the PC's funeral.
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Six Computer Labs that Gave Birth to the Digital World
Throughout history there is a recurring theme of like-minded individuals coming together to create a shared "hive mind" intelligence that is greater than its...
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'endless Forms' Uses the Web to Breed 3-D Printable Objects
Cornell University researchers are using their new, interactive EndlessForms.com Web site to allow anyone online to guide the evolution of printable, three-dimensional...
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