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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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Information School Team App For West African Fishermen Snags Sustainable Fishing Prize
A team from the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information won the grand prize of the Fishackathon programming challenge.
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nblinking Eyes Track Employees
A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse.
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Indoor Gps Is the Final Frontier of Personalized Navigation
Labs in the U.S. and U.K. are working on next-generation GPS that's so cool, it won't even use satellites.
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Hackers Reverse-Engineer Nsa's Leaked Bugging Devices
Security researchers have reverse-engineered some of the wireless spying devices used by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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Top500 Supercomputer Race Hits a Slow Patch
The performance of the world's fastest computers has been steadily growing for two decades, but the latest tally of their collective performance shows slowing progress...
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The Game Theory of Life
An insight borrowed from computer science suggests that evolution values both fitness and diversity.
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Computing a Cure For Hiv: 9 Ways Supercomputers Help Scientists nderstand and Treat the Virus
HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a major menace worldwide.
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3D Images Remodel History
It took hundreds of thousands of workers decades to create China's terracotta army, but digital avatars made in minutes could solve the lingering mystery of one...
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As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise
From driverless cars to delivery drones, a new generation of robots is about to revolutionize the way people work, drive and shop.
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China's Lunar Rover Limps Into Another Long Night
As it plunges into another two-week long 'lunar night', Jade Rabbit, China's Moon rover, is living on borrowed time.
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Spitzer Spies an Odd, Tiny Asteroid
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft...
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Mind-Control: 'i Drove a Car with My Thoughts'
Henrik Matzke is in the driving seat of a car, poised to make a very unusual manoeuvre.
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A New Safety System For City and School Buses Will Avoid Accidents Around Bus Stops
A new safety system for city and school buses detects the presence of pedestrians in the area surrounding a bus stop and warns the driver of dangerous conditions...
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Female Tech Staff 'in Decline' in the U.k.
A new report finds the gender gap in the U.K. information technology industry is getting worse.
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Supreme Court Tosses 'abstract' Software Patent
The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out an Australian company's patent for business software in a decision that clarifies standards for awarding patents, but not...
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Seeking Reality in the Future of Aeronautical Simulation
Computer simulation software is being used to help design future airliners that will cut fuel consumption, reduce polluting emissions, and fly more quietly.
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Computing Crime and Punishment
Scientists and historians have performed a computational analysis of historical court records in London.
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The Thought Experiment
I was about 15 minutes late for my first phone call with Jan Scheuermann.
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