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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 Future Fabric of Data Analysis
A new approach to computation is required for managing big data because of the shift to a decentralized, distributed computer architecture.
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Whither Supercomputing?
Even as America’s economic uncertainty over the government shutdown ends, the fate of Supercomputing remains undecided.
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Huawei Executive Talks About Cyber Security
As the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, Huawei plays a part in the technology industry's efforts to ensure network security...
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How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real
Despite a strong philosophical connection, computers and brains inhabit separate realms in research.
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Measuring a Superconducting Qubit by Manipulating Its Environment
Measurement in quantum systems is an inherently challenging problem.
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N.s.a. Director Gives Firm and Broad Defense of Surveillance Efforts
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...
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A Touch of Security
Biometrics hold promise, but haven’t yet paid off in consumer devices.
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Unbreakable Encryption Comes to the U.S.
As revelations about the depth and breadth of the NSA's digital eavesdropping program continue to come to light, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute is rolling...
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The Future Fabric of Data Analysis
When subatomic particles smash together at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, they create showers of new particles whose signatures are recorded by four...
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The Future of Prosthetics Could Be This Brain-Controlled Bionic Leg
About a year ago, Zac Vawter climbed all 103 flights of stairs of the Willis Tower in Chicago.
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Cyber Warrior Shortage Hits Anti-Hacker Fightback
For the governments and corporations facing increasing computer attacks, the biggest challenge is finding the right cyber warriors to fight back.
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In Quantum Computing, Light May Lead the Way
Researchers say they have developed a method to have light play a bigger, more versatile role in the future of quantum computing.
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Here's Everything You Should Know About Nsa Address Book Spying in One Faq
A new report from The Washington Post, based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the National Security Agency is collecting hundreds...
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Yep, Apple's A7 Looks Twice As Fast–at Least For Fractal Math
Is Apple's A7 chip twice as fast at processing and graphics, as Apple promised when announcing the new iPhone 5S?
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This Is Mars in Extremely High Resolution
On March 10, 2006, seven months after an Atlas rocket boosted it into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter fell into place in the...
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2013 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Computer Modeling of Chemical Reactions
What is actually happening at the atomic scale when two elements react?
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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Nsf Awards $12 Million to Sdsc to Deploy Comet Supercomputer
Comet, a supercomputer awaiting deployment, is designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity.
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