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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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The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far...
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Small Gadgets That Make You Healthier
At any moment, someone in the U.S. most likely is having an asthma attack.
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Cloud se Grows, and So Does Security Threat
Holding everything from highly personal medical and social media material to confidential financial and corporate documents, Internet-based cloud services are gathering...
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Wireless Connections Creep Into Everyday Things
A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner...
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Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover
The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been...
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Connecting the Neural Dots
In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan...
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China Has No Cyber Warfare Troops: Spokesman
A military spokesman said Thursday that China does not have any soldiers engaging in cyber warfare.
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And Now, From I.b.m., Chef Watson
I.B.M.'s Watson beat "Jeopardy" champions two years ago. But can it whip up something tasty in the kitchen?
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Sd College Tests Fingerprint Purchasing Technology
Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough...
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White House Opens More Federally Funded Scientific Research to the Public
A new White House directive will allow the general public more access to federally funded scientific research, the Obama administration announced at the end of...
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The Next Frontier Is Inside Your Brain
The Obama administration is planning a multiyear research effort to produce an "activity map" that would show in unprecedented detail the workings of the human,...
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A Genetic Code For Genius?
At a former paper-printing factory in Hong Kong, a 20-year-old wunderkind named Zhao Bowen has embarked on a challenging and potentially controversial quest: uncovering...
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Researchers Find Way to Pinpoint Location Where Online Video Was Shot
New video-recognition technology under development can analyze video and determine the time and place it was shot, according to researchers.
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Nielsen Adjusts Its Ratings to Add Web-Linked Tvs
For media executives, there may be nothing worse than a viewer or listener who is not counted.
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How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain
When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the Web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands...
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U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms
The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...
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Exposé of Chinese Data Thieves Reveals Sloppy Tactics
A beige office block in Shanghai's suburbs belonging to the Chinese army became world famous on Tuesday after Mandiant, a Washington-based computer security company...
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Decoding Dementia
Computer models may help neurologists unlock the secrets of brain disorders, from Alzheimer's to cancer.
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Using 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars?
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