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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Image Analysis May Allow Pathologists to Expedite Diagnoses
Pennsylvania State University researchers are using image recognition technology to develop an automated method of classifying histopathological images.
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Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.
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The Internet of Things Will Transform Our Everyday
VTT researchers have developed several ubiquitous computing technologies, such as situation awareness for portable devices, mixed and augmented reality, and interoperability...
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Graphene Could sher in Flexible, ltra-Slim Gadgets
You've probably never heard of graphene, a carbon-based material, but it might be stuffed into your pocket or wrapped around your wrist in the not-too-distant future...
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Computer Viruses Are 'rampant' on Medical Devices in Hospitals
Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel. These infections can clog...
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Remembering Jon Postel—and the Day He Hijacked the Internet
One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that handled the address books for the entire internet.
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Who Controls the Internet?
Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same? Or wondered why satellites don't crash into each other? Or why...
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Genome Hunters Go After Martian Dna
Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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Enabling Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
Bowdoin College professor Daniela Oliveira has developed a model to make the Internet safer by leveraging user input.
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Report Sees Decline in Voting Glitches ... but Vote-By-Mail Sparks Concern
The good news about voting technologyis that the upgrades put into place since the controversial 2000 presidential election have made ballot tallies twice as accurate...
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Craig Venter Imagines a World with Printable Life Forms
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.
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Inside Google's Sci-Fi Search Experiments
The familiar whistle of a smartphone notification told me that Paco was hungry.
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What's Baking on Titan?
Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal some new curiosities on the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, including a nearly circular feature that...
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Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription For Health Care
Everyone agrees health care in the United States is a colossal mess, and IBM is betting that artificially intelligent supercomputers are just what the doctor ordered...
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The Future, as Imagined by Google
In Eric E. Schmidt's future, his life will be a lot easier.
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Why Is This Man Running For President of the Internet?
It's an unseasonably cold early October evening in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is giving his elevator pitch to a flustered but rapt...
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Using Cell Phone Data to Curb the Spread of Malaria
Researchers at HSPH and seven other institutions used cell phone data in Kenya to investigate how people's travel patterns contribute to the spread of malaria....
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New Web-Based Model For Sharing Research Datasets Could Have Huge Benefits
Ohio State University researchers recently proposed creating a Web-based data network to help researchers and policymakers use existing knowledge to develop real...
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New Software Tool Helps Utilities Monitor For Network Security
The Sophia software tool created at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory can help network operators spot anomalies that might signal cybersecurity...
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