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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Clock May End Time As We Know It
"My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct," says Tom O'Brian.
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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionizing Flu Forecasting
This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta launched a competition to find the best way to forecast the characteristics of the...
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Verizon, At&t Tracking Their Users with 'supercookies'
Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have dubbed "supercookies"—markers...
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Random Image Experiment Reveals The Building Blocks of Human Imagination
Here's a curious experiment.
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Ft Interview with Google Co-Founder and Ceo Larry Page
Wouldn't the world be a happier place if 90 per cent of the people with jobs put their feet up instead and left the robots to do the work?
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New Players in the Nba: Big Data, ser-Controlled Jumbotrons
The NBA ushered in the new season this past week, and fans at the Staples Center for the Los Angeles Clippers' opening game had access to some new toys.
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The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creation
The Internet Archive recently held an event at its San Francisco headquarters to show off some of its latest projects.
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Poll Star: Rice Team Sets Sights on Better Voting Machine
A recent report says U.S. election officials face an "impending crisis" as they try to replace voting systems they bought after Florida's flawed 2000 election.
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What Is It Like to Control a Robotic Arm with a Brain Implant?
Jan Scheuermann is not your average experimental subject.
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Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong
It's flu season and Google has some news.
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A Print Magazine For Hackers
On a Saturday afternoon earlier this summer, dozens of hackers, journalists, and activists sat on the floor in a darkened hallway of the Pennsylvania Hotel in Midtown...
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Google Developing a Pill That Would Detect Cancer and Other Diseases
Google is attempting to develop a pill that would send microscopic particles into the bloodstream in an effort to identify cancers, imminent heart attacks, and...
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Brain Decoder Can Eavesdrop on Your Inner Voice
Talking to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime.
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Technology Group Promises Scientists Their Own Clouds (the Data Kind)
The nonprofit Internet2 organization is now offering researchers the opportunity to create clouds that will be connected by its network.
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Taking the Census, With Cellphones
A new study by Belgian researchers demonstrates that big data analytics can turn cellphone records into highly granular population density data.
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Stanford Libraries nearths the Earliest .s. Website
Stanford Libraries has launched Stanford Wayback, a customized version of an open-source platform that enables long-term access to archived Web assets.
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Projecting a Robot's Intentions
Measurable virtual reality combines ceiling-mounted projectors with motion-capture technology and animation software to project a robot's intentions in real time...
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