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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Complex Logic Circuit Made From Bacterial Genes
Washington University in St. Louis professor Tae Seok Moon hopes to develop biological circuits made from genes and regulatory proteins.
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Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center
If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age—a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you...
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Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission...
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Robots That Perceive the World Like Humans
UPV/EHU-University researchers are studying how to improve robot behavior by means of perception models that are closer to those of humans.
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Remembering Jon Postel—and the Day He Hijacked the Internet
One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that handled the address books for the entire internet.
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Who Controls the Internet?
Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same? Or wondered why satellites don't crash into each other? Or why...
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Squeeze Your Phone, and Send a Loved One a Hug
Researchers at the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology and Nokia have developed the ForcePhone, a device that can send vibrations back and forth to users...
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What's Baking on Titan?
Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal some new curiosities on the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, including a nearly circular feature that...
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Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription For Health Care
Everyone agrees health care in the United States is a colossal mess, and IBM is betting that artificially intelligent supercomputers are just what the doctor ordered...
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Chips That Melt in Your Body, Not in Your Hands
Welcome to the brave new world of transient electonics.
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Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote
Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined...
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Leon Panetta on Cybersecurity: D.C. Action Needed
While Joe Biden and Paul Ryan were duking it out last Thursday night over U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was warning...
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Precision Espionage Miniflame Malware Tied to Flame, Gauss
One of three previously unseen pieces of malware discovered during forensic analysis of the Flame malware command-and-control servers has been identified as a secondary...
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Bourne Pursuit: Improving Computer Tracking of Human Activity
University of Michigan researchers have developed a method for improving a computer's human-tracking accuracy by more than 30 percent by examining where the targets...
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New Interactive System Detects Touch and Gestures on Any Surface
Purdue University researchers have developed an extended multitouch system that enables more than one person to simultaneously use a computing surface.
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Digital Tabletop System With Views on Demand
Scientists presented a tabletop system that supports mixed-focus collaborative tasks during the 25th ACM UIST 2012 symposium.
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NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength
Marvel Comics' fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman strength.
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Where's the Discussion of Trojan Horses?
The Mykonos Vase, discovered in 1961 in the Cyclades, is one of the earliest accounts of the Trojan Horse, used as a subterfuge by the Greeks to enter the city...
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What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?
What are the next Big Things in science and technology? Teleportation? Unlimited clean Energy? The scientists and researchers at DARPA and the White House Office...
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