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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Microsoft nveils Self-Sketching Whiteboard Prototype
Microsoft researchers are developing a whiteboard that can interpret users' sketches to complete the diagrams they are drawing.
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Nasa Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited For Ancient Life on Mars
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
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Rethinking Objects and Form Are Key to 3D Printing Revolution
3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to...
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A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos.
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Clues Suggest Malware Is Moving from Pcs to Mobile Devices
The fact that smartphones and tablets don't need antivirus software or regular software updates is a major reason for their popularity.
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How to Predict the Progress of Technology
Moore’s Law and Wright’s Law offer the best predictions of the pace of technological progress, researchers say.
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Taking Transistors Into a New Dimension
Researchers say they have built the first 3D nanometric transistor.
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Kim Dotcom Is the Anti-Zuckerberg: Share Nothing, Encrypt Everything, Be Happy
Appearing like a retro-futuristic apparition, digitally transmitted through pneumatic tubes from a future that was but will never be, the disembodied head of Kim...
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Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving Forward
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer.
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Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.k. With It
Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China’s online surveillance apparatus.
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Practicing Medicine at the Nanoscale
Modern medicine is largely based on treating patients with "small-molecule" drugs, which include pain relievers like aspirin and antibiotics such as penicillin.
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How Big Data Is Changing the Whole Equation For Business
There's a ton of information out there. And businesses are figuring out how to put it to work.
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Star Trek 'holodeck' in the Living Room?
With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV screen, new technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards something even closer to real life...
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Disentangling Photons and Atoms to Keep Quantum Systems Clean
In quantum physics, the divisions between object and observer—the systems and environment—become blurred.
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Sxsw: Google's Amit Singhal Talks Natural-Language Search, Mobile
How do you build a search engine that's more attuned to natural language, capable of divining what you mean, and giving back what you want?
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Web-Based 'brain' For Robots Goes Live
Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online.
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Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying...
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Dhs Built Domestic Surveillance Tech Into Predator Drones
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance...
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Frozen Android Phones Give Up Data Secrets
Researchers were able to bypass the encryption system of an Android smartphone by freezing it for an hour.
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