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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Enhancing the Efficiency of Complex Computations
The science and industry sectors are showing considerable interest in the Karlsruhe High Quality Partitioner.
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Researchers se Shopping Cart to Put Mobile, Nfc Payment Theft on Wheels
Researchers have found that contactless payments are more vulnerable then previously believed.
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Mit, Notre Dame, t San Antonio Help Build Hybrid Cloud Environment For Education
Internet2 is working to bring a hybrid cloud environment to its community of research and educational institutions.
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When Bitcoins Go Bad: 4 Stories of Fraud, Hacking, and Digital Currencies
With Bitcoin interest (and prices) spiking, you might be considering investing in your own little cache of digital currency.
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'Soft' Biometrics Is the New Way to Monitor People
Cameras are strewn around our environment, catching glimpses of our faces everywhere we go, yet even the best facial recognition technology still has a hard time...
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Scientist-Developed Malware Covertly Jumps Air Gaps Using Inaudible Sound
Computer scientists have developed a malware prototype that uses inaudible audio signals to communicate, a capability that allows the malware to covertly transmit...
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Study: Black Women Falling Behind in STEM Fields
Women of color, especially black women, are significantly underrepresented in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics positions
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Nasa's Dawn Fills Out Its Ceres Dance Card
It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance...
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Google Puts Money on Robots, sing the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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Gates Foundation Big Data Grants Stress Open Data
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has allocated six $100,000 grants to projects aimed at "increasing interoperability of social good data."
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Europa's Choppy Ocean Looks Friendly to Life
As moons go, Europa is doing pretty well in the looks department.
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Pilot se of Automation Eyed in Air Crashes
Pilots are becoming so reliant on the computer systems that do most of the flying in today's airliners that on the rare occasions when something goes wrong, they're...
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Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: nrealistic Technology Expectations
The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn't all bureaucratic.
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Supreme Court Declines Case on Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to get involved in state efforts to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect sales tax from customers even in places...
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Uae Researchers Pioneer First Patient-Specific 3D Virtual Birth Simulator
A new virtual birthing simulator could enable mothers, doctors, and midwives to see how a birth will likely occur.
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Tech Giants Are Countering Government Spying
Technology firms such as Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and Facebook are investing in security technology to thwart U.S. government surveillance of their computer...
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Willis Ware, Who Helped Build Blueprint For Computer Design, Dies at 93
Willis H. Ware, an electrical engineer who played an important role in defining the importance of personal privacy in the information age, has died at age 93.
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China Launches Moon Rover Mission
China's latest display of ambition in space involves sending a Jade Rabbit roaming across the Bay of Rainbows.
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