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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Cheaper Joints and Digits Bring the Robot Revolution Closer
The Atlas humanoid robot, unveiled last year by Boston Dynamics, a company later acquired by Google, is a marvel.
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Cerf: Classified Nsa Work Mucked p Security For Early Tcp/ip
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf says that he had access to cutting edge cryptographic technology in the mid 1970s that could have made TCP/IP more secure – too bad the...
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Princeton Compsci Prof Wins Prestigious Award
An expert in machine learning and Bayesian statistics at Princeton University is the recipient of the 2013 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computer Sciences.
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The Build-Up: Good and Ready
Robotics appears to be preparing for a major acceleration after a slow start.
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Early STEM Education Will Lead to More Women in It
Girls Who Code says schools must develop mandatory computer science programs for K-12 if the technology industry wants more women in its workforce.
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With California's Red Light Cameras, Are Pictures Admissible Evidence?
Carmen Goldsmith was driving her BMW through Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, when she ran a red light.
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Physicists Are Building an Nsa-Proof Internet
It's long been the Holy Grail of communications: technology that not only maximizes privacy, but also reveals when a message had been intercepted or copied.
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Vint Cerf: CS Changes Needed To Address Iot Security, Privacy
The Internet of Things has tremendous potential but also poses a tremendous risk if the underlying security of Internet of Things devices is not taken into account...
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Commercial Drones Grounded By a Lack of Regulation
The U.S. is moving very slowly in regulating the commercial use of aerial drones.
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While Warning of Chinese Cyberthreat, .s. Launches Its Own Attack
The U.S. government has long complained about Chinese hacking and cyberattacks, but new documents show that the National Security Agency managed to penetrate the...
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Fact or Fiction?: Your Car Is Hackable
When your home computer is hacked, the things at risk are your identity, finances and other digital assets.
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Can a Computer Craft Compelling Stories?
University of Southern California professor Andrew Gordon has a new project that involves getting computers to read and generate stories.
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Immigrants From the Future
Robots intrigue both designers and enthusiasts in a way that goes beyond the technology's current practical applications.
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The Internet Is Killing Most Languages
You might be living through another mass extinction of species—brought on by us humans, who have been changing climate and fragmenting habitats at an increasing...
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Pay with Your Fingerprint
Anyone with an iPhone 5 can use its fingerprint reader to unlock the device and pay for apps or music in Apple's iTunes store.
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is obsessed with SCRABBLE.
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Getting to Know ... Jason
The JASON group is a low-profile, high-level adviser to the U.S. government on defense, science, and technology.
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How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today
If you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day...
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Teen to Government: Change Your Typeface, Save Millions
A Pittsburgh-area middle school student says his school district can save up to $21,000 annually by printing documents exclusively in the Garamond font.
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