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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Moocs Could Help 2-Year Colleges and Their Students, Says Bill Gates
Online courses that "flip" homework and coursework using outsourced lectures could help community colleges and students, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill...
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Lack of Women in Ict Sector Costs Europe 9bn Euros a Year
The European economy is losing out on 9 billion euros annually because few women fill information and communications technology roles at tech firms.
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Putting a Face on a Robot
Older and younger people have varying preferences for whether a personal robot should have a robotic, human, or mixed human-robot face.
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Facebook's Sandberg Takes on the Tech Gender Gap
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg took aim at the gender gap in the technology industry at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Project Sonar Crowdsources a Better Bug Killer
Rapid7 chief research officer HD Moore is developing ways of identifying vulnerable Internet-facing systems and devices through scans of the Internet.
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Kurzweil: The Human Brain on It
Information technology is causing the rate at which the world is changing to accelerate, says Ray Kurzweil.
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As F.b.i. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep.
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Early Humans Saw Black Hole Light in the Night Sky
Some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors were learning to walk upright, a light appeared in the night sky, rivalling the moon for brightness and...
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Did a Hyper-Black Hole Spawn the niverse?
It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed...
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Which World Governments Are Most Likely to Snoop on Your Facebook?
The United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia have the highest rates of government surveillance of Facebook accounts.
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The Science Author Clive Thompson Does Not Think Tech Is Ruining Your Mind
Technology writer Clive Thompson believes technology is improving human intelligence.
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Top 5 Jobs in Silicon Valley
If there's anything observers can say with certainty, it's that Silicon Valley remains an anomalous industry.
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Website Maps 1.2 Billion Facebook Faces
Facebook has so many users—more than a billion, or roughly the population of India—that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Google Think Tank Helps Build Virtual Museum For World Constitutions
The Comparative Constitutions Project has built a new website that offers a collection of constitutions from nations around the world.
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Tiny Sensor Used in Smartphones Could Create Urban Seismic Network
A tiny chip used in smartphones to adjust the orientation of the screen can detect moderate to strong earthquakes when located near the epicenter.
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Nsa Gathers Data on Social Connections of .s. Citizens
The U.S. National Security Agency in 2010 started creating sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social networks.
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