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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Internet of Things: Open Garden
When the Large Hadron Collider went online in 2009, most scientists saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to conduct experiments involving the building blocks...
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Mozilla Lab Wants Scientists to Step Out of Analog Age
Mozilla is creating a science lab that will enable researchers to explore ways to make research faster, more agile, and collaborative.
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Privacy Paradox: Americans Happy to Share Personal Data With Big Business
It's official: Americans may freak out when government collects their data to track terrorists, but they would happily have banks use it to catch some jerk trying...
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Beyond Silicon: Transistors Without Semiconductors
Although electronic devices continue to shrink, transistors based on semiconductors can only get so small.
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Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside
New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.
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A New Method that Is 700 Times Faster Than the Norm Is Developed to Magnify Digital Images
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can magnify images 700 times faster than conventional methods.
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Linux Continues to Rule Supercomputers
Linux continues to dominate the list of the world's fastest supercomputers and there is no reason to think that will change anytime soon.
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Don Knuth and the Art of Computer Programming: The Interview
Fifty years after starting the 'Art of Computer Programming,' Don Knuth is still working hard at the project.
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Web's Reach Binds N.s.a. and Silicon Valley Leaders
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter, or a similar Silicon Valley concern...
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What the Digital Brains of the Future Might Be Like
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...
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Slime Mold Could Make Memristors For Biocomputers
Researchers say the feeding fronds of the slime Physarum polycephalum could be used to build exotic computers.
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Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...
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Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great...
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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
A researcher is trying to make deep learning more accessible to researchers.
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China Trounces .s. in Top500 Supercomputer Race
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has overtaken the U.S.'s Titan system as the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest Top500 List, a twice-yearly...
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Big Data: When Cars Can Talk
The technologies already exist to allow vehicles to communicate with each other, with an ultimate benefit of safer roads.
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China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower
Two weeks ago, Jack Dongarra flew to Changsha, China for a meeting with researchers at the National University of Defense Technology, home to the country's top...
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