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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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Five Solar System Sights Nasa Should Visit
It's show time for NASA's planetary programme.
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So Sayeth Google
Search for "vaccines." At least within our filter bubble, the top item in Google's "In the news" section earlier this week was an anti-vax column about the "feds'...
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Pagerank Algorithm Reveals World's All-Time Top Soccer Team
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...
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Bbc Unveils Micro Bit Coding Device For Make It Digital Initiative
The BBC plans to offer a coding device to more than 1 million U.K. schoolchildren as part of its Make it Digital Initiative.
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Electrical Engineering Employment Declines Nearly 10%, but Developers up 12%
The number of people working as electrical engineers declined by 29,000 last year, even as the number of software developers increased by 132,000.
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Stanford Launches Smartphone App to Study Heart Health
A new iPhone app called MyHeart Counts enables researchers to collect data about users' physical activity and cardiac risk factors.
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On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number
If you like numbers, you will love March 14, 2015.
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DARPA to Pursue 'revolutionary' Privacy Tools
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program aimed at developing a system to keep personal and proprietary information private.
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Guaranteeing Online Anonymity
A new program can provide an accurate assessment of the level of online anonymity an individual user achieves.
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Researchers Develop "visual Turing Test"
Researchers have developed a "visual Turing Test" that can evaluate how well computers understand information taken from images.
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Watch What You Say
Mu'tah University researcher Ahmad Hassanat is developing a computerized system that can analyze the shapes human lips make as they produce different sounds.
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FCC Goes Public with Net Neutrality Rules For Governing Internet
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday finally spelled out how it will preserve the open Internet, publicly releasing a 400-page PDF that details its...
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Hipeac Unveils 5th Vision Document
The organization advises greater attention to the European Union’s position as it prepares to enter a new phase of scientific innovation.
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Computer Science Researcher Hopes to Make Access to Cloud Storage More Efficient
A Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University professor plans to further develop a high-performance and load balanced in-memory object caching storage system...
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App, Beacons Guide Travel on nderground For Vision-Impaired
The test trial for a smartphone app that helps the visually impaired use London's public transportation system wraps up this week.
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Connecting the Internet of Things to the Marketplace
The European Union-funded BUTLER initiative to expand the Internet of Things in a cooperative and seamless manner has published its achievements.
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Just in Time: Tips For Computer Science Teachers When They Need It
Researchers are developing online professional development resources to provide "just-in-time" support for computer science teachers .
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Pre-Crime Software Recruited to Track Gang of Thieves
They always choose the line at the bank farthest from CCTV—that's how the Felony Lane Gang got its name.
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Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses
Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.
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