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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Commercial Drones Take Flight
Commercial drones are poised to revolutionize a wide range of industries, though regulatory and privacy concerns have created some resistance.
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Here's How Smartphones, Tablets, and Huge Databases Will pend Market Research
If you're tired of those annoying 8 p.m. phone calls asking questions about where you shop, or of carrying an Arbitron sensor to provide radio ratings, your omnipresent...
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Why Fbi and CIA Didn't Connect the Dots
The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings.
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How to Get More Followers on Twitter
Researchers found that informational content attracts Twitter followers at a rate 30 times higher than content focused on the tweeter.
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AI Card Game Knows How to Bend the Rules
A new artificial intelligence system generates new card games from scratch.
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Emerging Technologies at SC13: A Chat With the Chairs
SC13's new Emerging Technologies program will focus technologies that could potentially shape computing and society as a whole.
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Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke
Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?
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After an iPhone Is Snatched, a High-Speed Chase
The woman was talking on her iPhone, and never saw coming her induction into a large and growing subset of crime victims.
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Flexible, Networked E-Ink Displays Mimic Physical Documents
Researchers at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris unveiled electronic ink displays that can bend as a form of input.
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It’s Not the Jetsons, But It May Be Coming Soon
Advances in technologies will transform what manufacturers can produce, the worker's role, and the products available to consumers.
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Emerging Protocol Can Help Manage the Internet of Things
The MQTT protocol for telemetry messaging could help address the significant challenge of enabling all types of smart devices to communicate with one another.
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Digital Tattoos, Mind-Reading Headphones: The Shape of Things to Come?
Forecasting future technology has never been easy. In the 1950s, scientists and technologists envisaged that by now the world would be free from disease, traversed...
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How One College Is Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap
There are still relatively few women in tech. Maria Klawe wants to change that. As president of Harvey Mudd College, a science and engineering school in Southern...
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Revolutionizing Tornado Prediction
Researchers are developing a tornado modeling and simulation system that aims to explain why some storms generate tornadoes, while others do not.
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Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea.
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Graphene: The Nano-Size Material with a Massive Future
Ever since it was discovered in 2004, graphene has been hailed as a natural wonder of the materials world destined to transform our lives in the 21st century.
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It Jobs Market: The Trends Behind the Statistics
Today's IT jobs market is far from uniform, but some trends stand out. Employers are under pressure to fill positions, salaries are being pushed up, and tony tech...
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Students’ Lofty Goal Is Clear
WashBOT is a multiyear project to automate the process of cleaning recessed windows in buildings that present problems for human and machine-based washers.
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Engaging Online Crowds in the Classroom Could Be Important Tool For Teaching Innovation
Input from social media and crowdsourcing can help students identify needs for products or services, generate ideas, and more easily test those ideas.
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