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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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Pressure Building for Rules of Engagement for Cyberwarfare
The call for an international legal framework governing cyberwarfare is gaining momentum.
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Smartphone App Can Help Doctors Track Severity of Parkinson's Symptoms
HopkinsPD uses smartphone sensors to reliably score symptom severity in patients with Parkinson's disease.
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Technology Earns Smart 50 Award
Researchers have won a Smart 50 Award for one of the 50 "most transformative smart projects each year."
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sing Biomimicry to Detect Outbreaks Faster
Researchers have been working to enhance the U.S. biosurveillance system, which alerts authorities to disease outbreaks.
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A Tough Task for Facebook: European-Type Privacy for All
Next month, a comprehensive new data protection law goes into effect in the European Union, placing greater requirements on how companies like Facebook and Google...
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Ancient Paper Art Poised to Improve Smart Clothing
Researchers have used kirigami in their execution of a project to build malleable electronic circuits, which could enhance smart apparel.
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Smart Ink Adds New Dimensions to 3D Printing
A new smart ink turns three-dimensionally-printed structures into objects that change shape and color.
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A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins
Researchers are using an 1816 legal precedent to track down stolen bitcoins.
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Migration Forecasts Could Help Prevent Wind Turbines and Buildings From Killing Millions of Birds
A team of researchers have constructed a computer model of weather and bird migration to help prevent bird deaths by wind farms and buildings.
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Researchers Devise Novel Laser Steering for Autonomous Cars
Researchers say they have discovered a novel laser light sensing technology that is more robust and less expensive than conventional systems.
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Blue Waters Supercomputer Brings Subatomic Resolution to Computational Microscope
A new "computational microscope" can model the atomic and subatomic forces driving molecular interactions.
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DevOps, Machine Learning Dominate Technology Opportunities This Year
Programming languages and frameworks associated with DevOps and machine learning are on the rise, and developers working in these areas garner the highest salaries...
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Your Alexa and Fitbit Can Testify Against You in Court
Ross Compton had no idea his pacemaker would finger him for arson.
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How Human is Your Robot?
A Brown University team develops a way to 'score' robots for being more (or less) like people.
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Digital Life Team Creates Animated 3D Models of Sea Turtles From Live Specimens
The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst has unveiled three-dimensional models of a loggerhead and a green sea turtle.
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The Next NSA Chief Is More sed to Cyberwar Than Spy Games
After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant...
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John Bolton, Cyber Warrior
John Bolton has spent years imploring the U.S. to go on the attack in cyberspace—a stance that some digital warfare experts caution could set up the nation for...
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MIT Professor Who Developed Wi-Fi-like Device That 'Sees Through Walls' to Receive ACM Prize in Computing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dina Katabi has been named recipient of the 2017 ACM Prize in Computing.
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Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence Leading the Way to Smart Houses
Researchers are studying deep learning, with a focus on improving medical imaging and advancing the future of truly smart houses that will perform manual labor...
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