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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Every Study We Could Find on What Automation Will Do to Jobs, in One Chart
You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...
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A New Recipe For Hunting Alien Life
Imagine stepping into a time machine, one that could traverse not only billions of years but also countless light years of space, all in search of life in the universe...
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Blockchain Is This Year's Buzzword, But Can It Outlive the Hype?
The speculation around cryptocurrencies has obscured the fact that blockchain, the decentralised, open-source ledger that drives bitcoin, could radically change...
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The Quantum Computer Era Arrives
The drive to develop and commercialize the first quantum computer has been characterized as the new arms race.
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Artificial Neurons Compute Faster Than the Human Brain
Superconducting computing chips modelled after neurons can process information faster and more efficiently than the human brain.
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How Pixar's Cartoon Cheese Led to a Smarter View of Science
Ten years ago, a chunk of animated cheese in Pixar's "Ratatouille" captured the imagination of cell biologist Janet Iwasa. So much so that it changed the way she...
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Strava Suggests Military sers 'opt Out' of Heatmap as Row Deepens
Fitness-tracking company Strava has defended its publication of heatmaps that accidentally reveal sensitive military positions, arguing that the information was...
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Tech Giants Brace For Europe's New Data Privacy Rule
Over the past two months, Google has started letting people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and...
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Your Sloppy Bitcoin Drug Deals Will Haunt You For Years
Perhaps you bought some illegal narcotics on the Silk Road half a decade ago, back when that digital black market for every contraband imaginable was still online...
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Vulnerable Industrial Controls Directly Connected to Internet? Why Not?
Siemens issued an update to a year-old product vulnerability warning for its SIMATIC S7-300 and S7-400 families of programmable logic controllers (PLCs)—industrial...
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Quantum Race Accelerates Development of Silicon Quantum Chip
Researchers have demonstrated that the quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon in a silicon quantum chip.
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Tech Firms Let Russia Probe Software Widely sed By .s. Government
Major global technology providers SAP (SAPG.DE), Symantec (SYMC.O) and McAfee have allowed Russian authorities to hunt for vulnerabilities in software deeply embedded...
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DARPA Wants to Build an Image Search Engine Out of Dna
Most people use Google's search-by-image feature to either look for copyright infringement, or for shopping.
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Physicists Create Star Wars-Style 3D Projections; Just Don't Call Them Holograms
Daniel Smalley has long dreamed of building the kind of 3D holograms that pepper science-fiction films.
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The (almost) Complete History of 'fake News'
In record time, the phrase morphed from a description of a social media phenomenon into a journalistic cliche and an angry political slur.
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Major Payment Company: 'fewer and Fewer se Cases' For Bitcoin Payments
Stripe is one of the most popular ways for small online organizations to accept credit card payments. And in 2014 it became one of the first major payment processors...
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AI Can Read! Tech Firms Race to Smarten p Thinking Machines
Seven years ago, a computer beat two human quizmasters on a "Jeopardy" challenge. Ever since, the tech industry has been training its machines even harder to make...
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Have a Hidden Power Structure, and It's Just Been Revealed
In cryptocurrency circles, calling something "centralized" is an insult.
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