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Google Computers Trained to Detect Cancer
Google has developed a new breast cancer detection technique that utilizes machine learning, predictive analytics, and pattern recognition to train a computer to...
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How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard.
Wiretaps on Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. And if you're a candidate for president, it's even harder.
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Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes By Reading Your Mind
Baxter is but a child, with bright eyes and a subtle grin.
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To Keep Tor Hack Source Code Secret, Doj Dismisses Child Porn Case
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...
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Singing Posters and Talking Shirts: Uw Engineers Turn Everyday Objects Into Fm Radio Stations
Researchers are enabling everyday objects to communicate directly with smartphones and car radios and transmit information to them.
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How Rival Bots Battled Their Way to Poker Supremacy
A complex variant of poker is the latest game to be mastered by artificial intelligence (AI). And it has been conquered not once, but twice, by two rival bots developed...
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Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.
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First Hint of How Dna Calculators Could Supercharge Computing
By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even ...
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Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...
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Medical Devices Are the Next Security Nightmare
Hacked medical devices make for scary headlines.
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Coming Soon: Oil Spill-Mapping Swarms of Flying Drones
Researchers have devised a way to program a team of off-the-shelf, low-powered drones to map an oil spill in a matter of minutes.
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Lies, Propaganda and Fake News: A Challenge For Our Age
Who was the first black president of America?
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Martian Winds Carve Mountains, Move Dust, Raise Dust
On Mars, wind rules. Wind has been shaping the Red Planet's landscapes for billions of years and continues to do so today.
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How Bioinformatics Tools Are Bringing Genetic Analysis to the Masses
For doctors trying to treat people who have symptoms that have no clear cause, gene-sequencing technologies might help in pointing them to a diagnosis. But the...
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Disney Research Demonstrates Open-Air Wireless Charging
Disney Research says its new quasistatic cavity resonance technology offers a way for mobile devices to wirelessly charge themselves.
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Browser Fingerprinting Tech Works Across Different Browsers For the First Time
Researchers at Lehigh University have developed new browser fingerprinting software that identifies users across Web browsers more accurately than the most sophisticated...
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Nasa's Europa Flyby Mission Moves Into Design Phase
A mission to examine the habitability of Jupiter's ocean-bearing moon Europa is taking one step closer to the launchpad, with the recent completion of a major NASA...
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AI Learns to Write Its Own Code By Stealing from Other Programs
Out of the way, human, I've got this covered.
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Collapse of Aztec Society Linked to Catastrophic Salmonella Outbreak
One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico's native population, may have been caused by a deadly form of...
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