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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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Pre-Crime Software Recruited to Track Gang of Thieves
They always choose the line at the bank farthest from CCTV—that's how the Felony Lane Gang got its name.
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Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses
Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.
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Personal Fabrication Machines Make 'homemade' Digitally
Digital cutting devices will supplement consumer-level 3D printers.
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Pluto-Bound Probe Tweaks Its Trajectory
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant...
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Silicon Valley Debate on Self-Driving Cars: Do You Need a Map?
The Silicon Valley race to build a self-driving car may revolve around one simple question: to map or not to map.
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The Real Star Wars: Air Force Heads to the Heavens For Weapons Guidance
The success of precision-guided bombs in 1991’s Gulf War was a revelation.
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Mistrust and Meddling nsettles .s. Science Agency
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.
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If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?
Let me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you're reading. Maybe you're right. Maybe not.
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Do You Only Trust Wall-E Because He's Cute?
Each year it seems a little less like science fiction to ask your phone for advice about local chinese food or trust your car to get you to a new location.
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Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project
Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...
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Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days
Managers of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as next week while continuing analysis of what appears...
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Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality
"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California.
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To Digitize a Brain, First Slice 2,000 Times with a Very Sharp Blade
As I stepped into the Brain Observatory, I didn't really see what I expected from a brain bank.
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Engineering the Perfect Baby
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.
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Dig This: I Operated a Giant Excavator from 2,500km Away
Thanks to Ericsson, I can check off operating heavy machinery from my bucket list.
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To Bring Virtual Reality to Market, Furious Efforts to Solve Nausea
Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality, which promises to immerse people in 3-D games and video.
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Sc15 Chair on Hpc Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin
In an interview, Jackie Kern, general chair of the SC15 conference, shares her agenda for the year and plans for the event.
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Nasa Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet.
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Rover Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook for surveying "Marathon Valley," a science destination chosen because spectrometer observations...
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