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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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Why Video Games May Be Good For You
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.
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How a Look at Your Gmail Reveals the Power of Metadata
Sometimes you have to give up a little privacy in order to find out how much—or how little—privacy you really have.
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NIST Study Advances Use of Iris Images as a Long-Term Form of Identification
Biometric researchers studying iris stability have determined that no consistent change occurs in the distinguishing texture of irises for at least a decade.
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New Technology Protects Against Password Theft and Phishing Attacks
Scientists say they can protect Internet users from phishing attacks with a new system called Uni-IDM.
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How Snowden Did It
When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn't need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer...
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Productivity Tools For Cybercrime
Stealing 10 million dollars a few hundred dollars at a time used to be too labor-intensive to be a great business.
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The Walls Have Ears: Princeton Researchers Develop Walls That Can Listen, and Talk
Princeton University researchers have successfully incorporated ultrathin radios on plastic sheets, which can be applied to walls and other structures.
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Kean Computer Science Students in nion Travel 'beyond the Grave'
A new smartphone app provides access to information on grave markers in the First Presbyterian Church cemetery in Elizabeth, N.J.
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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Incubator
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is...
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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four...
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Nsa Gathered Thousands of Americans' Emails Before Court Ordered It to Revise its Tactics
The U.S. National Security Agency illegally collected up to 56,000 "wholly domestic" communications each year from 2008 to 2011.
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Twitter Hashtags Predict Rising Tension in Egypt
The Political Polarization Index uses Twitter to measure political tension in Egypt.
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These Patterns Move, But It's All an Illusion
Focus on the ball at the center of the image. The scene appears to vibrate. If you move your head slightly forward and backward, the color fields of the rosette...
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Computing Researchers Get 'schooled' on Science Policy at Lispi 2013
The Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium recently held its second Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) workshop.
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Laser Listening: Could You Eavesdrop on the Guardian?
The U.K. government has warned the Guardian newspaper that foreign agents could use laser technology to eavesdrop on them, in the wake of recent surveillance leaks...
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Remembering Douglas Engelbart
"Inspiring," "visionary," "humble," "honest," "impeccable integrity," "passionate and stubborn about his work." Tributes poured in for Douglas Engelbart, inventor...
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Seven Over 70
For over a decade, we've celebrated innovators under the age of 35. We choose to write about the young because we want to introduce you to the most promising new...
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35 Innovators Under 35
For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs, we're presenting the stories in a new way.
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