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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Modeling the Ripples of Health Care Information
University of Chicago researchers will use a $3-million U.S. National Institutes of Health grant to create a tool for assessing health care innovations and policies...
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Can We Create an Energy Efficient Internet?
A new research program seeks to reduce the energy consumption of Internet-connected devices by developing new hardware and cloud-based solutions.
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Studying the Speed of Multi-Hop Bluetooth Networks
Researchers have studied the performance of Bluetooth networks and measured the delays taking place in information transmission.
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Virtual Money--At Your Own Risk
Bitcoin does not protect a user's Internet Protocol address and can be linked to transactions in real time, according to a new study.
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The Supreme Court Debates Rap Lyrics to Draw a Line on Criminalizing Online Speech
The Supreme Court on Monday looked ready to clarify the law on whether violent threats made on websites like Facebook should be liable for criminal prosecution,...
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Bringing Transparency to the High-End Art Market
A site that connects fine art buyers and sellers serves as the equivalent of an "Art Fair on the Internet."
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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...
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Codebreaking Has Moved on Since Turing's Day, With Dangerous Implications
Recent interest in computing and cryptography pioneer Alan Turing offers an opportunity to see the massive gains that have been made in the field of codebreaking...
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Co-Robots Team Up With Humans
A group of researchers believe people and robots will be able to accomplish much more by working together, as long as robots have common sense.
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German Study Supports Free 'super Wi-Fi'
A recent study proposed additional TV frequencies should not be marketed, but used to extend wireless networks.
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Study: U.s. Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly-Skilled Migrants
The U.S. is no longer drawing as large a share of the world's highly educated and skilled workers as it once did, according to a new study.
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Museum Switches on Historic Computer
A project to recreate one of Britain's pioneering computers has reached a key milestone.
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Supreme Court Case Tests the Limits of Free Speech on Facebook and Other Social Media
About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to say: "Fold up...
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Tech’s Gender Gap Wasn’t Always So Bad. Here’s How It Got Worse
A new documentary film called CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap explores the glaring lack of American female and minority computer science engineers.
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Hacker Mitnick Has a Plan to Help You Stay Safe Online
Even famed hacker Kevin Mitnick—labeled a "computer terrorist" by the FBI in the '90s—worries about getting hacked.
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Note to Future Self
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is working to develop a sort of cryptographic time capsule.
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Linguistic Mapping Reveals How Word Meanings Sometimes Change Overnight
To track how language evolves, Stony Brook University researcher Vivek Kulkarni and colleagues map the linguistic vector space of words.
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Tomorrow's Degradable Electronics
SINTEF researchers in Norway say they have made electronic components that are soluble in water and disappear after a few hours.
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