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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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How To Track Vehicles Using Speed Data Alone
Location is a key indicator of personal travel patterns and habits.
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How the Nsa (may Have) Put a Backdoor in Rsa's Cryptography: A Technical Primer
There has been a lot of news lately about nefarious-sounding backdoors being inserted into cryptographic standards and toolkits.
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nemployed in Europe Stymied By Lack of Technology Skills
A large portion of Europe's unemployed workers and young people entering the workforce lack the necessary skills for technology-based job opportunities.
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Thanks to the Nsa, Quantum Computing May Some Day Be in the Cloud
The U.S. National Security Agency is spending about $80 million for basic quantum computing research.
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Ok, Glass, Find a Killer App
A select group of developers have been experimenting with Google Glass for months and have created apps that could indicate where the technology will go in the...
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Study: Self-Driving Car Sales Will Explode
The global population of self-driving cars is projected to grow to 11.8 million by 2030, according to a study by IHS Automotive.
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Man and Machine: Cognitive Computing in the Enterprise
The next generation of cognitive computers aims to serve as cognitive assistants that will supplement human intelligence.
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Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth
Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004.
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Titan's Seas Get an Earthly Stand-In as Robot Explores Chilean Lake
Early Mars rovers had little more intelligence than a fancy remote-controlled car.
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Viewing Where the Internet Goes
Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in?
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Water Plumes Spark a Race to Jupiter Moon Europa
Let's put Mars in our rear-view mirror.
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Meditation May Aid Smoking Cessation Treatment
A new study suggests more heavy smokers can quit, with fewer relapses, through treatment with meditation with pharmaceutical and cognitive behavioral therapies...
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The Top Four Tech Legal Cases to Watch in 2014
While we're all wiping the champagne-induced sleep from our eyes, inevitably we have to sober up for 2014.
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Inside Tao: Documents Reveal Top Nsa Hacking nit
In January 2010, numerous homeowners in San Antonio, Texas, stood baffled in front of their closed garage doors.
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Faa Picks Six Projects to Tackle Drone Technology Development
The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday designated six projects across the U.S. for research into drones, the unmanned aircraft that have the potential to...
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Dogecoins and Litecoins and Peercoins Oh My: What You Need to Know About Bitcoin Alternatives
By now, most people have heard of Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer currency whose value has soared over the past couple of years.
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Reading Your Palm For Security's Sake
They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain.
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Nsa Phone Surveillance Legal, Federal Judge Rules
The debate over the National Security Agency's collection of millions of Americans' telephone records fell squarely into the courts when a federal judge in Manhattan...
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The Great Ideas Hiding nder the Invisibility Cloak
Physicist John Pendry talks about the profound physics obscured by his invisibility cloak and how metamaterials could help realise the perfect lens.
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