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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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Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation
The way we use digital devices has become big news.
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Kremlin Returns to Typewriters to Avoid Computer Leaks
A source at Russia's Federal Guard Service, which is in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications and protecting President Vladimir Putin, claimed that the...
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Five-Year-Olds to Learn Programming and Algorithms in Major Computing Curriculum Shake-p
The U.K. Department for Education has added programming and algorithm teaching for children as young as five years old to that nation's computing curriculum.
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The Manning Trial Grapples with the Question of Whether Wikileaks Is a Media Entity
Defense arguments in the trial of former Army private Bradley Manning—who stands accused of a number of crimes for handing over classified documents to WikiLeaks...
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Study: Women Just as Satisfied in It Jobs as Elsewhere
A new study suggests that preconceptions about women's dissatisfaction with IT industry jobs are unjustified.
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In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management field?
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Supercomputers: Battle of the Speed Machines
China is surging ahead of the United States in the race to build the world's fastest computers.
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Iran Planning Cyber Drills
Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali announced on Saturday that Iran plans to stage cyber exercises in the near future...
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Unmasking Organized Crime Networks with Data
One of the big challenges in fighting organized crime is precisely that it is organized. It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility...
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New York City's New Hot Address: .nyc
Say you live in New York City and you're just itching to find an obscure gift for that geek in your life who has everything.
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Researchers Recreate Photosynthesis to Power Devices
Artificial photosynthesis could lead to an alternative to gasoline, to ultradense computer memories, or to highly efficient solar cells.
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Internet Inventor: No Technological Cure For Privacy Ills
Is there technological solution for protecting people from online surveillance?
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Eu and Japan Team Up For 100 Gbps Internet Connections
A partnership between the European Union and Japan could lead to the creation of more-efficient networks that can handle vast amounts of data.
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Crisis Cleanup Mapping Tool Coordinates Rebuilding Efforts
Crisis Cleanup is a free, open source mapping tool that enables disaster relief organizations to coordinate cleanup and rebuilding efforts after catastrophes.
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What Your Metadata Says About You
As recently as a few weeks ago, "metadata" was an obscure term known mainly to techies and academics.
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Future Cops: How Technology Is Set to Change Policing
The sci-fi vision of police officers rushing to the scene of a crime before any crime has even been committed may be rather far-fetched but technology is increasingly...
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Big Data Spells Trouble For Consumer Privacy
Matt Valentine, head of Microsoft's enterprise solutions for Hong Kong, shares a key piece of advice with his five- and seven-year-old children: when it comes to...
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Douglas Engelbart, 1925 – 2013
Douglas Engelbart, creator of the computer mouse, died last week at his home in Atherton, CA.
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Y No Go Viral: The Emerging Science of Memes
Scientists are beginning to study how memes are created, which ones fail, and how certain memes go viral.
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