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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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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy
The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...
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Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.s.
Al-Qaida fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if...
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The New York Times Was Losing $5 Per Second Thanks to Its Web Site Outage
The New York Times is still reeling from a massive Web outage that took down its homepage, its corporate Web site, and everything in between.
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Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique
A new wireless communication method enables devices to interact without batteries or wires, a development that could advance the Internet of things.
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Congress Starts Looking Into Bitcoin
A Senate committee is pressing federal regulators and law enforcement officials to explain how they plan to oversee Bitcoin and other virtual currencies as the...
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How to Share Scientific Data
Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth catalog and a Silicon Valley muse, once said that information wanted to be free and expensive, simultaneously. That...
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'spoofers' Use Fake Gps Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course
University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...
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Jpl, Masten Testing New Precision Landing Software
A year after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's landed on Mars, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are testing a sophisticated flight...
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Scientists Create Tiny Bendy Power Supply for Even Smaller Portable Electronics
A new micro-supercapacitor could lead to mobile phones and cameras that are smaller, lighter, and thinner than existing devices.
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More Connected Homes, More Problems
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...
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As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House
Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people.
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Hardware Trick Could Keep Cloud Data Safe
The new Ascend chip could protect data in the cloud by concealing the way in which central processing units request information in cloud servers.
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Linkedin Connects Big Data, Human Resources
Every second, more than two more people join LinkedIn's network of 238 million members.
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How Wearable Technology Could Transform Business
Once upon a time seeing your life flash before your eyes was something people did their best to avoid. The arrival of Google Glass seems to have changed that.
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Google's Project Loon Begins Tests in California
Google will test its Project Loon in California's Central Valley.
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Dhs Adds Foraging to Tech Arsenal
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security can turn to technology foraging when it does not have a specific technology needed to solve a problem.
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Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost
It's a cognitive leap forward. IBM can now program an experimental chip they unveiled two years ago.
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Cyborg Parts
Lab-made organs could do more than just serve as ready options for patients in need: with the right blend of biology and materials science, they might even be able...
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Exotic Optics: Metamaterial World
Tom Driscoll would be happy if he never heard the phrase "Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak" again.
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