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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Teardown Shows Iphone 5s Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 For the 5c
New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart.
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Supercomputer Boosted With Graphic Processors
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center is developing a new supercomputer system that will consume less power than its current flagship supercomputing system.
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Apple's A7 Chip Makes a Run at Intel
Is Apple simply engaging in PR puffery when it talks about its "desktop" A7 chip? Not so fast.
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Nsa Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged .s. Cryptography Standard
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...
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Apple: The 64-Bit Question
There's been an interesting sideshow in tech land since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S last week: Does having the first 64-bitmicroprocessor in a phone mean anything...
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Lowering the Energy Overhead For Data
U.S. data centers are now eligible to receive Energy Star certification, if they are sufficiently energy efficient.
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Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers
By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...
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Can Supercomputers Predict the Future?
Supercomputers could predict major upheavals with some degree of confidence, according to a Georgetown University researcher.
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Nasa's Asteroid-In-A-Bag Recipe
"It’s not as crazy as it seemed at the beginning," Charles Elachi, the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Washington Post, about NASA's latest...
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Ios 7, Thoroughly Reviewed
When we reviewed iOS 6 a year ago, we called it a "spit-and-polish" release and stand by that assessment today.
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Google's Coder Tool Turns Raspberry Pi Into a Mini Web Server
A new open source development tool from Google is designed to make it easier to use Raspberry Pi computers to build Web applications.
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Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.
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The Skies. The Limits.
Long ago, in a dreamier era, space stations were imagined as portals to the heavens.
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Security Tech Firms Hit Jackpot in Asia Casino Boom
Asia's new mega-casinos are driving sales and innovation in advanced surveillance technology, from chips with built-in radio transmitters to high-definition, multi...
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Moose Enables 'plug and Play' Simulations
Idaho National Laboratory researchers are developing MOOSE, a software framework for simulating the behavior of complex systems.
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The Man Who Would Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet
Solomon Hykes has started an open source software project called Docker that aims to use the Internet as one enormous computer.
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
Artificial intelligence research has advanced significantly, but much work remains before computers can truly replicate or surpass human intelligence.
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