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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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Researchers Study How to Avoid Charge Traps in Plastic Electronics
Charge traps in plastic electronics have a common underlying mechanism, and this finding has led to a theoretical framework for designing electronics without traps...
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Far from Silicon Valley, Tech Industry Finds an Oracle
Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of.
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The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.
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Samsung Case Is a Proxy For Google
When Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. face off in a high-stakes patent trial Monday, there will be another elephant in the room: Google Inc.
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Identifying Trending Stories on Twitter and Optimal Temperature For Data Center Computers
UTSC professor Bianca Schroeder and students Nosayba El-Sayed, Ioan Stefanovici, George Amvrosiadis, and Andy A. Hwang received a best paper award at the recent...
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Curiosity Rover on Track For Early August Landing
Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
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Apple v. Samsung: 5 Surprising Reveals in Latest Court Documents
The lawyers behind the upcoming Apple v. Samsung trial have been hard at work filing docket after docket as their court battle looms closer, and many of those dockets...
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At Getty Museum, Revelations of Art via Tech
Walking through gallery after gallery of classical European paintings, sculptures, and other antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum here, it's easy to get lost...
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Device Helps Eyes Do the Write Thing
French National Center for Scientific Research director Jean Lorenceau has developed a device that enables users to write with their eyes in cursive script on a...
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Rise Is Seen in Cyberattacks Targeting .s. Infrastructure
The top American military official responsible for defending the United States against cyberattacks said Thursday that there had been a 17-fold increase in computer...
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Gps Weakness Could Enable Mass Smartphone Hacking
Weaknesses in the technology that allows smartphone users to pinpoint themselves on a map, or check into restaurants and bars using apps such as Foursquare, could...
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Timing Is Everything For the Games' Chief Timer
Timing is everything for Peter Hürzeler, a man for whom "good enough" simply isn't.
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What a Win or Loss on Mars Will Mean
Anyone who's looked at the "Seven Minutes of Terror" trailer for next month's Mars landing might have wondered whether the planners behind NASA's $2.5 billion Mars...
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Scientists Find New Principle For Spin Transistor
Electron spin could be used to control electron current in a transistor-like structure and improve the performance of electronics.
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DARPA-Funded Researcher Can Take Over Android And Nokia Phones By Merely Waving Another Device Near Them
Smartphones' growing adoption of so-called "near field communications" promises to let the device in your pocket wirelessly make payments, beam info to other phones...
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Micro-Drones: The New Face of Cutting-Edge Warfare
Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) with uncanny navigation and real-time mapping capabilities could soon be zipping through indoor and outdoor spaces, running reconnaissance...
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Cosmic Simulations
With the help of supercomputers, scientists are now able to create models of large-scale astronomical events.
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Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet
Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government's investment in education and basic infrastructure...
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