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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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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...
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Time Cloak sed to Hide Messages in Laser Light
A "time cloak" that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended...
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...
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Codebreaking Has Moved on Since Turing's Day, With Dangerous Implications
Recent interest in computing and cryptography pioneer Alan Turing offers an opportunity to see the massive gains that have been made in the field of codebreaking...
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Supreme Court Case Tests the Limits of Free Speech on Facebook and Other Social Media
About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to say: "Fold up...
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Hacker Mitnick Has a Plan to Help You Stay Safe Online
Even famed hacker Kevin Mitnick—labeled a "computer terrorist" by the FBI in the '90s—worries about getting hacked.
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Sensors For Seniors
In-home technologies are helping seniors stay aware, healthy, and in touch.
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Intelligent Living
After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.
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Decoding the Language of Human Movement
Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.
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What's Next For the Rosetta Mission and Comet Exploration
Somewhere dark and icy on a comet 320 million miles away, the history-making, comet-bouncing Philae spacecraft is sleeping.
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Linguistic Mapping Reveals How Word Meanings Sometimes Change Overnight
To track how language evolves, Stony Brook University researcher Vivek Kulkarni and colleagues map the linguistic vector space of words.
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S Regulators Move on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...
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At China Online Coming-Out Party, Beijing Spells Out Internet Control Ambition
China showed governments and the planet's biggest tech firms last week its vision for global Internet governance—clean, controlled and choreographed.
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Microsoft Machine Learning Tech Adds Captions to Images
Microsoft is leveraging its machine learning research to build software that automatically captions images.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors
New software automatically ranks authors and creators whose work is in the public domain by how likely they are to be of interest to academics and the public.
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Automakers Aim to Drive Away Car Computer Hackers
Against the team of hackers, the poor car stood no chance.
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How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road
A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.
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Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...
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