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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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Apps in Your Browser
Google has started hosting mobile apps and incorporating them into search results.
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Making Our Digital World Safer From Cyberattacks
Researchers are working to help ensure cybersecurity develops in conjunction with changes in technology and with emerging threats.
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Saturn's Rings: Less Than Meets the Eye?
It seems intuitive that an opaque material should contain more stuff than a more translucent substance.
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How Do Americans Weigh Privacy Versus National Security?
Three years ago, Edward Snowden leaked troves of previously classified information that laid bare the American government's widespread surveillance of its citizens...
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If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard
Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way.
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Cynthia Breazeal's Robotic Quest
Cynthia Breazeal has committed herself to the development of socially intelligent robots.
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How to Make Your Own Nsa Bulk Surveillance System
A network surveillance and security issues expert built a miniature bulk surveillance system like the one used by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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With STEM Degrees, It's Not the School That Matters
The prestige of a school offering science, technology, engineering, or math degrees may have little impact on how much its graduates earn.
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Energy-Friendly Chip Can Perform Powerful Artificial-Intelligence Tasks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers this week introduced a new chip that implements neural networks.
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5 Futuristic Oddities From the Weird World of Wearable Tech
Concepts of human-machine interaction are undergoing a transformation thanks to advances in wearable technology.
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At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest
After hackers breached the computer network of the U.C.L.A. medical center last summer, Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, and her office...
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Robotic Comet Lander Philae Says Good-Bye
On a dark stretch of the chilly Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko the lander Philae has begun a lonely and silent vigil.
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Usda Announces Open Data Challenge Winners
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced the winners of the USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge.
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Solving a Problem With Data: Researchers Build System to Protect Roads in the Spring
Researchers are using near-real-time data collection to demonstrate how states can improve their ability to protect brittle roads from heavy vehicles at the end...
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Scientists Build a Neural Network Using Plastic Memristors
A group of Russian and Italian scientists have used plastic memristors to create a neural network.
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Techiest Super Bowl Ever: Silicon Valley's Stadium Girds For the Big Game
Levi's Stadium has been in beta since it opened a year and a half ago.
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Computational Learning Techniques Becoming Mainstream
Applying support vector machines to predictive analytics.
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Deciphering the Language of the Brain
Understanding how brains work is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our times, but despite the impression sometimes given in the popular press, researchers...
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Researchers Discover Malicious Computer Code
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers say they have discovered and traced six botnets by analyzing data collected from past cyberattacks.
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