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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Future on Display: Technology You'll Want to Stroke
Whatever you might expect from the latest computer technology, fur is unlikely to be one of them.
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Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead
A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. "vision statement" shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should...
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Google, Verizon Propose Open vs Paid Internets
Google and Verizon announced a joint proposal on Monday that would allow ISPs to offer premium content bundles over an unspecified global network—an unexpected...
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Stanford and Uc Berkeley Create Massively Collaborative Math
Have you been pondering the probability that two random integers are relatively prime? The answer—6/π²—awaits you in cyberspace.
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Connecting Electronic Medical Records
Looking out his office window in Seattle, Thomas Payne can see two hospitals that use the same electronic record system as his own. And yet, says Payne, medical...
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Virtual Walkers Lead the Way for Robots
Children do it with ease, but walking on two feet is challenging for robots. And while animated characters stroll along quite happily, they rarely look human...
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Holographic Displays, Robot Eyes Hint at Your Interactive Future
The eyes may be the window to the soul. But what do you see when you look into robotic eyes so real that it’s almost impossible to tell they are just empty, mechanical...
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On the Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only
You may not know a company called [x+1] Inc., but it may well know a lot about you.
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Pentagon Demands Wikileaks
A Pentagon spokesman on Thursday demanded that the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks return and delete all the classified Defense Department documents in its...
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Private Browsing Modes Leak Data
The private browsing modes on modern browsers leak information about where people have visited, suggests a study.
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For Kevin Mitnick, Staying Legal Is Job One
Kevin Mitnick was eager to participate in a social-engineering contest at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas last weekend and was told he would target Microsoft...
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In a Video Game, Tackling the Complexities of Protein Folding
In a match that pitted video game players against the best known computer program designed for the task, the gamers outperformed the software in figuring out...
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Shape-Shifting Robots
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3D structure.
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At IBM Research, a Constant Quest for the Bleeding Edge
When you think about diverse issues like river management during drought, urban traffic prediction, cocoa crop maximization, and how to win at Jeopardy, IBM might...
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Wikileaks Backlash Could Mean Less Data For Soldiers
Information shared with troops may be restricted.
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Message From Rim Chief: Monitoring Would Kill Web
Research In Motion Ltd. co-CEO Michael Lazaridis lashed out at governments seeking to ban his company's BlackBerry phones, saying they risk undermining the growth...
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Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence
For generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They're not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable...
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Computing at the Speed of Light
Replacing metal wiring with fiber optics could change everything from supercomputers to laptops.
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Cell Phones and Wifi Set to Invade Nyc's Subways
After years of negotiations, a plan is afoot to wire New York City's subway platforms for both cellular and WiFi service, a move that may see service extend into...
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