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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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Stonebraker Receives 2014 ACM A.m. Turing Award
MIT’s Stonebraker brought relational database systems from concept to commercial success.
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For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.
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Voice Control Will Force an Overhaul of the Whole Internet
Jason Mars built his own Siri and then he gave it away.
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Next in Live Entertainment: Watching People Code
Streaming video of developers as they code is gaining a growing audience.
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What If Web Search Results Were Based on Accuracy?
Imagine, for a moment, that every Web search gave only accurate, verified information.
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How DARPA Plans to Decrypt the Languages That Computers Still Don't nderstand
A U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project that will officially launch in May is an effort to aid interpreters by decrypting speech.
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Deanonymizing Tor sers With Raptor Attacks
Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of a suite of traffic analysis attacks that deanonymize Tor users.
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k Mapped Out By Genetic Ancestry
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale...
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Stealing Data from Computers sing Heat
Air-gapped systems, which are isolated from the Internet and are not connected to other systems that are connected to the Internet, are used in situations that...
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The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was
On October 16, 2011, the early evening weather on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, was almost unspeakably gorgeous—mild as a warm bath,...
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High-Resolution 3D Scans Built From Drone Photos
Drones offer an inexpensive way to capture three-dimensional scans of buildings, terrain, and other objects.
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Satellite Imagery Can Aid Development Projects
New software can identify houses in rural villages from satellite images, potentially saving time that would otherwise be spent sending teams from village to village...
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Atlas of Thoughts
Aarhus University researchers are using computer games to help them tackle some of the fundamental problems of quantum computing.
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'smart Bandage' Detects Bedsores Before They Are Visible to Doctors
A new smart bandage uses electrical currents to detect tissue damage from pressure ulcers before they are visible and while recovery is still possible.
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Robot Model for Infant Learning Shows Bodily Posture May Affect Memory and Learning
Researchers have used robot models of infants to study how "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of physical objects, are connected to the position...
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What's the Price Now?
Dynamic pricing finds its way into a growing number of industries.
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Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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'space Lawyers' Help Startups Navigate the Final Legal Frontier
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.
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The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible
Programming pioneer Edsger W. Dijkstra's namesake algorithm remains one of the cleverest things in computer science.
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