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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
"Qubits" of information encoded in a silicon system persisted for almost 100 times longer than ever before.
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Will Ibm's Watson sher in a New Era of Cognitive Computing?
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.
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Blinded By the Light
The probe sails through space, traveling the distance of the LA-to-Chicago red-eye in a minute.
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Google Books Ruling Is a Huge Victory For Online Innovation
It's taken almost a decade, but the courts have finally handed down a ruling on Google's audacious project to scan millions of books to build a book search engine...
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Researchers Find Way to Increase Range of Wireless Frequencies in Smartphones
Researchers have developed a method for tuning the radio frequency in smartphones and other wireless devices that reduces costs and improves the performance of...
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Internet Security: Besieged
The Internet Engineering Task Force recently met to discuss concerns about recent reports of the U.S. National Security Agency undermining cryptographic software...
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Intelligence Agency Seeks Facial Recognition pgrade
The U.S. intelligence community is pushing a leap forward in facial recognition software that will enable it to determine better the identity of people through...
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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The Daunting Challenge of Secure Email
When users of Lavabit, an encrypted e-mail service, logged on to the site this past August, they found a bewildering letter on the site's main page.
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Big Data's Little Brother
David Soloff is recruiting an army of "hyperdata" collectors.
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The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse
Google X is responsible for some of Google's most literally fantastic projects: Google Glass, self-driving cars, gigantic inflatable balloons that beam Internet...
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Social Media Helps Aid Efforts After Typhoon Haiyan
In the wake of typhoon Haiyan, disaster relief teams are descending on the Philippines from all over the world, trying to aid the victims. Volunteers are mining...
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Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger Lhc
When Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up in 2008, particle physicists would not have dreamt of asking for something bigger until they got their US$5...
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Ieee Wants the Cloud to Grow Like the Internet
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is developing an Intercloud Testbed to show how various types of cloud computing environments can combine...
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Stores Sniff Out Smartphones to Follow Shoppers
You've just tossed a jar of peanut butter in your grocery cart when your smartphone buzzes.
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Sunny Fix Would Let Defunct Kepler Hunt Planets Again
NASA's champion planet-hunter, which recently suffered a fatal breakdown, is now looking on the sunny side.
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To Thwart Spies, IETF Wants to 'Strengthen the Internet'
Internet Engineering Task Force chair Jari Arkko recently spoke about the need for the engineers behind the Internet to push for new standards that would make it...
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Nasa Cassini Spacecraft Provides New View of Saturn and Earth
NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
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