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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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The Hidden World of Facebook 'like Farms'
Facebook has become the advertising outlet of choice for many of the world’s businesses and companies.
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How Two Men nlocked Modern Encryption
In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.
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Making Big Data Think Bigger
Big-data management will create a significant shift in the way decisions are made, as new sources of data are mined for patterns.
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What's the Next Big Tech Trend? This Federal Agency Thinks It Can Predict the Answer
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is using machine intelligence to predict what emerging technologies will become popular in the future...
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Microsoft Shuts Down Silicon Valley Research Lab, Amid Broader Layoffs
Microsoft laid off another 2,100 employees on Thursday.
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Boosting Hispanic Share of Tech Workforce Could Be Key to Closing STEM Gap
Greater Hispanic participation could play a crucial role in reaching the Obama administration's goals for increased student exposure to opportunities in STEM fields...
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Sensors Everywhere Could Mean Privacy Nowhere, Expert Says
Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford says the Internet of Things will permanently record data on people, often without their knowledge.
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...
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Nsa Director Rogers rges Cyber-Resiliency
In his keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, NSA Director and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers, explained that the Defense...
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New Nsa-Funded Programming Language Could Close Long-Standing Security Holes
Steve McConnell, author of "Code Complete," says coding errors create software vulnerabilities that criminal hackers can use to enter and attack an enterprise. ...
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Battling Bacteria With Software
Researchers have developed software to help track a potentially dangerous bug which has become resistant to some of the most potent antibiotics.
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Njit Computer Scientists Win a Major Grant to Network Mobile Devices in the Cloud
New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers have received a multi-year grant to develop a platform enabling mobile devices to interact with each other via the...
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Fighting Lung Cancer: Faster Image Processing For Low-Radiation Ct Scans
The University of Michigan hopes to reduce the image-reconstructon process time for low-dose computed tomography scans from 30 minutes or more to five minutes.
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Seeking Human Cyber Consciousness
An American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur is using computer science to advance towards "the coming age of our own cyber consciousness and techno-immortality."...
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Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture
Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs's office.
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Ethical Trap: Robot Paralyzed By Choice of Who to Save
Bristol Robotics Laboratory's Alan Winfield and colleagues recently tested an ethical challenge for a robot.
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Herb: A Robot That Can nload a Dishwasher and (sometimes) Take Apart an Oreo
The Home Exploring Robot Butler has advanced manipulation skills that enable it to perform multiple functions.
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Why the .S. Might Just Need a Federal Commission on Robots
A Federal Robot Commission could help extract sense and insight from the many technological applications that separate human agency from execution.
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