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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Supercomputational Thinking at Sc14
Considering how computational scientists have developed supercomputing technologies, and where it is helping take everyone else.
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Striving to Be Socially Responsible
Electronics manufacturers are taking their social and environmental responsibilities ever more seriously.
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Dell Research Works at Intersection of Technology, Customer Needs
The goal of Dell's research unit is to take a long-term view of trends in the industry and decide which ones to act on based on what makes sense.
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DARPA Wants to Toughen-p Wan Edge Networking, Security
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to improve networking and security at the wide area network edge.
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Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve
A new study finds efforts to prevent the manipulation of search results are having little impact on online fraud.
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Fighting Crime Through Crowdsourcing
Researchers are developing a computing model that uses crowdsourcing to combine and optimize human efforts and machine-computing elements.
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Scientists Build a Better Eye on Our World
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory will work to develop a video camera that can capture images in 360 degrees.
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Gift From Ballmer Will Expand Computer Science Faculty at Harvard
Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will make a financial contribution to Harvard that will enable the school to expand its computer science faculty...
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81% of Tor sers Can Be De-Anonymised By Analysing Router Information, Research Indicates
More than 81% of Tor clients can be ‘de-anonymized’ by exploiting Netflow technology.
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the niverse
As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...
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Big-Data Project Gives Birds-Eye View of the G20
A researcher is mapping the G20 Leaders' Summit in Brisbane, Australia, in real time on Twitter and Instagram to determine how the event affects participants.
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
Several teams are working on new ways of determining what elements of behavior or mannerisms could be tracked to monitor a person's mental health.
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Robot That Moves Like an Inchworm Could Go Places Other Robots Can't
Researchers have developed a soft, worm-like robot that moves similarly to inchworms.
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Twitter Firehose Reveals How Weather Affects Mood
Stanford University researchers have mined geotagged tweets for indications of mood and searched for correlations with the weather.
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Google Boosts Turing Award Computing Prize to $1 Million
There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.
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Human Thoughts sed to Switch on Genes
Could a futuristic society of humans with the power to control their own biological functions ever become reality?
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Rosetta: Concerns For Comet Lander After neven Landing
The lander bounced twice, initially about 1km back out into space, before settling in the shadow of a cliff, 1km from its intended target site.
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Weapons Directed By Robots, Not Humans, Raise Ethical Questions
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare...
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