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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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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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Android Fingerprint Sensors 6 Months Away
The FIDO Alliance is aggressively pushing a new standard of biometric identification for consumer access to mobile payments and other services.
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A Google Glass Alternative in Japan
Foreign tourists visiting this city have long encountered translation help.
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Top 5 Jobs in Silicon Valley
If there's anything observers can say with certainty, it's that Silicon Valley remains an anomalous industry.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Seeing Light in a New Way
Scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are challenging the conventional wisdom about light, and they didn't need to go...
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids
Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look.
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How the Fifa 14 Soccer Video Game Finally Got Its Physics Right
When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale last week, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air.
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When Google Brainstorms, Online World Shudders
Is Google about to do to online privacy what body scanners did to airline travelers?
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control.
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Nsa Chief Defends Collecting Americans' Data
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes...
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Ctrl-Alt-Delete Defenders Tell Bill Gates It Wasn't A Mistake
The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons...
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Cache and Not Carry: Next Mars Rover to Collect Samples For Return to Earth—someday
Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.
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Creating Matter That Behaves Like Luke Skywalker’s Light Saber
Scientists have created a new photon-based matter that is essentially like the light sabers in the movie Star Wars.
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Science Benefits From Diverse Landing Area of Nasa Mars Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and...
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