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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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European niversities Catch the Online Wave
Europe is beginning to embrace massive open online courses, which have steadily gained popularity in the United States over the past several years.
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Special Feature: Five Questions for Berkeley Lab's CRD Director
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computational Research Division director David Brown says applied mathematics helps supercomputers solve scientific problems...
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Nsa Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged .s. Cryptography Standard
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...
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Suspect Nist Crypto Standard Long Thought to Have a Back Door
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology advises against using the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation standard.
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Linux Kernel Luminaries Talk Enterprise, Embedded and Why They're Coming Together
Although developing the Linux kernel is a difficult and complicated process, it also is one that is moving ahead with some speed.
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Gold in the Data, but a Shortage of Miners
As the government and private industry increasingly strive to mine huge quantities of data for valuable information, a shortage of big data experts is likely to...
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A Computer Scientist's Approach to Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Stephanie Seneff applies her natural language processing research to solving biological problems.
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Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction
How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What...
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Alan Turing’s Story Could Be Rebooted By Calls to Pardon Late Computer Legend
More than 50 years after the death of computing pioneer Alan Turing, a movement is cresting to reboot the record of the British mathematician's life.
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Google May Ditch 'cookies' As Online Ad Tracker
Google, the world's largest Internet search company, is considering a major change in how online browsing activity is tracked, a move that could shake up the $120...
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Rice Prof’s Sleuthing Helps Id Lost Van Gogh
A statistical analysis of X-ray images of the canvas beneath a painting helped to identify it as an authentic work by Vincent Van Gogh.
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NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and...
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Secret Court Declassifies Opinion Providing Rationale For Metadata Sharing
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...
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The New National Identity Is What Smartphone You Prefer, and Nobody's Quite Sure Why
In a fascinating note at Asymco, mobile analyst and ex-Nokian Horace Dediu details how people's taste in smartphones varies from place to place:
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Lowering the Energy Overhead For Data
U.S. data centers are now eligible to receive Energy Star certification, if they are sufficiently energy efficient.
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NASA's Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration
In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a five-year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thirty-six years later, the car-size probe is still exploring...
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Research Brings nbreakable Phones One Step Closer
A new method for transferring versatile electronics onto a flexible surface could contribute to the development of flexible displays, solar cells, and energy harvesters...
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