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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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Federal Agencies to Hire More Cyber Defenders in 2014
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to significantly expand its cyber workforce.
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Canadian Girls Good at Math Half as Likely to Study STEM
Canadian high school girls who are good at math are half as likely as their male counterparts to pursue STEM and computer science in college.
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The One Big Question About Rsa and Its Relationship With the Nsa
Last week, the Internet security world was jolted by a Reuters report detailing a secret $10 million payment to the security company RSA from the National Security...
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Stanford Researchers: It Is Trivially Easy to Match Metadata to Real People
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...
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Increase Cybersecurity Workforce, Government rged
The International Internet System Security Certification Consortium is suggesting ways to increase the number of candidates for open federal cybersecurity positions...
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Analytics: Where the Girls Are
Although women are generally underrepresented in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, analytics offers a level playing field for women...
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The Predictive Power of Big Data
Right now, the average person's data footprint—the annual amount of data produced worldwide, per capita—is just a little short of one terabyte.
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Edward Snowden, After Months of Nsa Rvelations, Says His Mission's Accomplished
The familiar voice on the hotel room phone did not waste words.
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Alan Turing Gets Royal Pardon For 'gross Indecency' – 61 Years After He Poisoned Himself
Nearly 60 years after his suicide, Alan Turing has been officially pardoned by the Queen.
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Into the Bitcoin Mines
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.
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Go Easy on Moocs
A new report recommends the federal government not interfere with massive open online course vendors and providers.
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'Peace Technologies' Enable Eyewitness Reporting When Disasters Strike
Ushahidi — or "testimony" in Swahili — has played a central role in coordinating responses to crises around the globe.
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Cornell Researchers Print 3D Speaker
Researchers have successfully fabricated a working loudspeaker using a three-dimensional printer.
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Wikipedia's Secret Multilingual Workforce
Versions of Wikipedia content in different languages have little overlap, with the English edition, for example, containing just 51 percent of the articles in German...
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...
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Outdated Magnetic Strips: How U.s. Credit Card Security Lags
Criminals may have stolen information from 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target.
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Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential...
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Apps Make Sense of Social Media 'noise'
Researchers have developed two applications that could transform New Yorkers' social media activity into viable data.
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