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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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Skinny Wormholes Could Send Messages Through Time
Like some bizarre form of optical fibre, a long, thin wormhole might let you send messages through time using pulses of light.
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Screening For Autism: There's an App For That
New software tracks and records infants' activity during videotaped autism screening tests.
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The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World
Some algorithms shape and control our world more than others — and these 10 are the most significant.
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Swarm and Fuzzy
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting.
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Microbes Defy Rules of Dna Code
The instructions encoded into DNA are thought to follow a universal set of rules across all domains of life. But researchers report today in Science1 that organisms...
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B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s
The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America's military arsenal, is getting its first major communications system upgrade since the Kennedy administration...
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The Trouble With IBM
In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA.
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Tracking Lost Luggage Part of At&t's Vision of the Future
AT&T has demonstrated its User-Defined Network Cloud and other innovative technologies that could soon be available.
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...
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Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful
New techniques are designed to translate "invisible numbers" into visible images.
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Time For a Change
4D printing combines the dimension of time with the hope of building objects with new capabilities.
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Engineering Graduate ses Big Data to Seek Insights to Bicycle Travel Flow
A recent big data project was designed to get a better understanding of bicycle usage and its relationship to automobile and bus traffic.
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For U.s. Companies That Challenge China, the Risk of Digital Reprisal
Two large American steel makers, U.S. Steel and Allegheny Technologies, each lost confidential files giving access to their computer networks.
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Why the Death of Net Neutrality Would Be a Disaster For Libraries
The Internet's eyes turned to the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, as the panel approved a plan to consider allowing Internet service providers to...
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Device Aims to Brings Text and Graphics to Visually Impaired
European researchers are working on a portable Braille device with a tactile display that enables visually impaired users to access digital words and graphics.
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"we're at Greater Risk": General Keith Alexander
Since Edward Snowden's revelations about government surveillence, we know more about how the National Security Agency has been interpreting Section 215 of the Patriot...
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Computers See Your Face as a Child. Will They Recognize You as an Adult?
Questions have emerged about whether facial recognition technology could recognize an adult based on images of that person as a child.
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Not Dr. Glasshole: How Google Glass Could Help Save Lives
Doctors who have used Google Glass are optimistic about the device’s place in medical practice.
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