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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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Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded...
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic
"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic...
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Google ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...
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Google's Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Brakes or Steering Wheel
Humans might be the one problem Google can't solve.
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'smart Pills' with Chips, Cameras, and Robotic Parts Raise Legal, Ethical Questions
Each morning around 6, Mary Ellen Snodgrass swallows a computer chip.
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Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet
Brewster Kahle is quick to point out that we are not standing inside a former Scientology church.
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Swarm and Fuzzy
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting.
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Microbes Defy Rules of Dna Code
The instructions encoded into DNA are thought to follow a universal set of rules across all domains of life. But researchers report today in Science1 that organisms...
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B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s
The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America's military arsenal, is getting its first major communications system upgrade since the Kennedy administration...
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The Trouble With IBM
In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA.
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How the .s. Could Escalate Its Name-and-Shame Campaign Against China's Espionage
Earlier this week the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five Chinese military officers for industrial espionage, accusing them of leading attacks on the computers...
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.
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Electric Grid, You Have Software pdates Available
The electric grid was designed as a one-way highway, with power cascading out from big power plants to cities and towns at the end of the line.
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...
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Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful
New techniques are designed to translate "invisible numbers" into visible images.
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Time For a Change
4D printing combines the dimension of time with the hope of building objects with new capabilities.
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Engineering Graduate ses Big Data to Seek Insights to Bicycle Travel Flow
A recent big data project was designed to get a better understanding of bicycle usage and its relationship to automobile and bus traffic.
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The Age of Quantum Computing Has (almost) Arrived
Google owns a lot of computers—perhaps a million servers stitched together into the fastest, most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet.
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