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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researchers Compete to Bring Humanoid Robots to Life
During the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge, researchers will compete to enable humanoid robots to collaborate with humans.
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NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have enhanced existing GPS technologies...
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Nsa ses Google Cookies to Pinpoint Targets For Hacking
Documents released by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden indicate the agency uses Internet cookies to hack indivuals' computers.
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Fbi's Search For 'mo,' Suspect in Bomb Threats, Highlights se of Malware For Surveillance
The man who called himself "Mo" had dark hair, a foreign accent and—if the pictures he emailed to federal investigators could be believed—an Iranian military uniform...
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Explained: Matrices
Researchers say they have built one of the first chips to implement the new high-efficiency video-coding standard for ultrahigh-definition TVs.
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Database Tracks Toxic Side Effects of Pharmaceuticals
Updates to an extensive toxicology database should make it easier to track information about the unintentional toxic effects of therapeutic drugs.
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Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.
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Supreme Court to Decide on Patent Protections For Software
The Supreme Court agreed last Friday to rule on the divisive issue of what kinds of software are eligible for patent protection in a case being closely watched...
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World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games
Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting...
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Tech Giants Issue Call For Limits on Government Surveillance of Users
Eight major technology companies on Monday called on the Obama administration and Congress to set limits on government surveillance activities.
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Coding Kids
As the importance of programming as a life skill grows, parents are beginning to seek coding education for their children.
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Love Connection
Researchers have developed an algorithm for dating sites that uses a person's contact history to recommend compatible partners.
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Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web
The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.
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Identifying Signs of Chronic Brain Injury in Living Football Players
Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain disorder called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition...
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Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system—a...
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Data Mining Reveals the Secret to Getting Good Answers
A new algorithm can rank the questions and answers on question and answer websites, while weeding out off-topic and irrelevant entries.
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Can You Read My Mind? Uc Researchers Engineer the Framework For Helpful Robots With Human Intuition
Robots are expected to play an increasingly large role in daily life over the next 50 years.
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China Bars Banks from Bitcoin Transactions
China's government banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin on Thursday, in what analysts said was a restrained first step towards regulating the digital...
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