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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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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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k to Create New Cyber Defence Force
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence will recruit reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in its new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
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Smart Cities: Citizens Come to Their Sensors
Santander, Spain, has become a model for high-tech smart cities worldwide.
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Watch Out, Wall Street: Report Says Tech Is Now Nyc's Second-Largest Sector
New York City's economy has traditionally been dominated by finance, real estate, and media.
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Nsa Chief Defends Collecting Americans' Data
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes...
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Scientists se Math--and Computer War Games--to Show How Society Evolved
Researchers have developed mathematical formulas and computer simulations to discover how complex societies evolved.
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Harvard Plans to Boldly Go With 'spocs'
Harvard University is moving beyond massive open online courses to small private online courses.
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Supercomputing Enables Climate Time Machine
Climate models are improving with each generation of supercomputer, enabling more precise predictions of extreme weather events.
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Science Benefits From Diverse Landing Area of Nasa Mars Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and...
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Why Space Telescope Mirror Is Most Complex Ever Built
"You will not be touching anything."
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The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
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t Arlington Researchers Successfully Test Model For Implant Device Reactions
A NEW computer simulation could improve the treatment of dangerous reactions to medical implants such as stents, catheters, and artificial joints.
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Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data
The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only U.S...
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Better Thinking Tools
A new book calls for human-computer interfaces that better support thinking and learning.
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How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets
Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has evolved into a premier observatory for an endeavor not envisioned in its original design...
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Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone interstellar.
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Internet Archaeologists Reconstruct Lost Web Pages
Researchers recently embarked on an effort to reconstruct deleted social media posts and resources, in part from the clues they leave behind on the web.
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3D Mapping Is a 'pisa' Cake For Aussie Scientists
Zebedee is a new handheld three-dimensional mapping system that includes a laser scanner to capture millions of detailed measurements of a site.
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Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion.
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