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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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Built For Speed: Designing Exascale Computers
Researchers at Harvard University are focused on developing the hardware and software for exascale computers, while others are planning to apply exascale computing...
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Surface Impressions of Rosetta's Comet
Surface structures are becoming visible in new images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the scientific imaging system OSIRIS onboard the European Space...
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How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon's Cloud
Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing...
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Scientists Enlist Big Data to Guide Conservation Efforts
Researchers have developed a model that uses big data to help biologists understand the evolutionary history of life on Earth.
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More Eyes on the Skies
The future, it is often said, belongs to those who plan for it.
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Harold Edgerton: The Man Who Froze Time
Every time you use the flash on your smartphone or camera, you should give silent praise to Harold Eugene Edgerton.
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Researchers Probe Security Through Obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works.
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Epsrc Calls For Partners to Develop Alan Turing Institute
The U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council wants to partner with U.K. universities to establish the Alan Turing Institute.
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Indonesian Techies Crowdsource Election Results
A trio of Indonesians working for international tech companies have used crowdsourcing to calculate a result for Indonesia's contested presidential election.
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How Technology Is Unraveling the Clues of Flight Mh17
Over the weekend, the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy turned into a "Law and Order" episode on the international stage with Secretary of State John Kerrymake...
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The Growing Threat of Network-Based Steganography
Researchers have uncovered Duqu, an unusual form of steganography-based malware that embeds itself in Microsoft Windows machines.
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Talk on Cracking Internet Anonymity Service Tor Canceled
A highly anticipated talk on how to identify users of the Internet privacy service Tor was withdrawn from the upcoming Black Hat security conference, a spokeswoman...
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In Defense of Science
Steady, sufficient investments in basic research are necessary to ensure the continued success of the U.S. in the future, four expert witnesses testified to Congress...
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New Dimension in Scoreboard Watching
The seemingly endless prairie that blankets this part of the United States would seem to be an unlikely place for one of the largest makers of sports video displays...
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Iran's Liberals and Conservatives Argue Over Internet Restrictions
When Iran's authorities started to block websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia in 2006, only a tenth of the population used the Internet.
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Oco-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations...
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Travis County Developing Electronic Voting System With a Paper Trail
An electronic-voting system that prints out a paper copy of the ballot and a take-home receipt is under development and could be in operation within three years...
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For Tv 'white Spaces,' the Global Outlook Is Hopeful but Cautious
Developed and developing markets' spectrum policies are starting to accommodate TV white spaces.
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