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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Liberty Science Center Bestows Genius Awards on Cerf, Bezos, Tartar
Liberty Science Center recently bestowed Genius Awards on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, and SETI astronomer Jill Tarter.
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Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin
It is one of the great mysteries of the digital age.
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How Cooperative Research Is Shaping the Future Internet
European researchers are working with Japanese colleagues to build a framework for testing new network technologies.
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Exploring a New Frontier of Cyber-Physical Systems: The Human Body
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently announced $8.75 million in awards to two programs developing state-of-the-art medical and cyber-physical systems.
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The Computers Are Listening
The U.S. National Security Agency's use of automated speech recognition has been a well-guarded secret for years, although its use by the agency is widespread.
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This Little 3D Printed Robot Cracks Combination Locks in 30 Seconds
Careful what you leave in your lockers, high school students and gym-goers.
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Soft Robot to Swim Through Europa's Oceans
Cornell University researchers have received a nine-month, $100,000 grant to develop a soft, swimming robot that can explore other worlds.
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Free Tool Reveals Mobile Apps Sending Unencrypted Data
A new program will allow people to test whether their mobile data is protected.
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A First Big Step Toward Mapping the Human Brain
It's a long, hard road to understanding the human brain, and one of the first milestones in that journey is building a … database.
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IEEE: Computing 'Earthquake' Needed as Scaling Stalls
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Reboot Computing initiative plans to launch "an earthquake in the computing industry."
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Robots, Hungry for Power, Are Too Weak to Take Over the World
Today's robots may just be too hungry and unfit to take over the world any time soon.
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Electronic Security Tag For Protecting Valuable Shipments
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland say they have developed an electronic security tag that can be used to protect valuable shipments.
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Graphene Holds Key to Unlocking Creation of Wearable Electronic Devices
Researchers have developed a technique to embed transparent, flexible graphene electrodes into fibers commonly associated with the textile industry.
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7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What the Next Decade Will Bring
The Huffington Post recently queried seven futurists about what the next decade of science and technology might hold.
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A Pioneering Facial Recognition Cane For the Blind
Students at Birmingham City University have developed a smart cane that uses facial recognition technology to enable the visually impaired to identify friends and...
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Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here
An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway.
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A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...
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How Daimler Built the World's First Self-Driving Semi
Christian Urban waves his hands to make a point, then looks at his nails and cracks wise about needing a manicure.
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