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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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Putting a Face on a Robot
Older and younger people have varying preferences for whether a personal robot should have a robotic, human, or mixed human-robot face.
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Facebook's Sandberg Takes on the Tech Gender Gap
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg took aim at the gender gap in the technology industry at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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And Then Steve Said, 'let There Be an Iphone'
The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere.
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Project Sonar Crowdsources a Better Bug Killer
Rapid7 chief research officer HD Moore is developing ways of identifying vulnerable Internet-facing systems and devices through scans of the Internet.
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Kurzweil: The Human Brain on It
Information technology is causing the rate at which the world is changing to accelerate, says Ray Kurzweil.
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A Digital Copy of the niverse, Encrypted
Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now...
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As F.b.i. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep.
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How Dia Is Cultivating Google-Like Innovation
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency is using cloud computing to foster innovation among government agencies, industry, and academia.
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Stretchable Oleds For Displays, Lighting
A transparent, elastic organic light-emitting diode could give rise to a new class of smartphones, smart clothing, and wallpaper-like lighting panels.
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Dark Fiber Is Lighting p
After years of scarce activity, laying fiber is big business once again.
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Imagining Data Without Division
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...
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Early Humans Saw Black Hole Light in the Night Sky
Some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors were learning to walk upright, a light appeared in the night sky, rivalling the moon for brightness and...
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Did a Hyper-Black Hole Spawn the niverse?
It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed...
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A Google Glass Alternative in Japan
Foreign tourists visiting this city have long encountered translation help.
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Which World Governments Are Most Likely to Snoop on Your Facebook?
The United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia have the highest rates of government surveillance of Facebook accounts.
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c San Diego, md Researchers to Build ‘wifire’ Cyberinfrastructure
A project called WIFIRE aims to develop a cyberinfrastructure to improve wildfire predictions and simulations.
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The Science Author Clive Thompson Does Not Think Tech Is Ruining Your Mind
Technology writer Clive Thompson believes technology is improving human intelligence.
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