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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Nasa Associate Administrator on Asteroid Initiative
"The mission to find, capture and redirect an asteroid robotically, and then visit it with astronauts to study it and return samples takes advantage of expertise...
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Intel Cooks p Future of TV—A Potential Mess for Cable
Visualize the TV service you've always wanted: a gorgeous interface that does away with clunky (and often ad-strewn) programming grids; a simple remote that isn't...
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White House Budget Would Trim Nasa Funding Slightly
The NASA budget would shrink slightly under President Obama's budget proposal. The White House is asking for $17.7 billion in funding, down about $50 million...
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Radical Roads Drive Robot Cars
Los Angeles has completed the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system, synchronizing its 4,400 traffic lights.
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Baseball Meets Internet of Things: Goodbye, Bad Umpires?
Connected baseball equipment, in combination with sensors and transmitters located through a stadium, could deliver much more precise verdicts than umpires.
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Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past
Professor Peter Turchin is the driving force behind a field where scientists analyze history in the hopes of finding patterns they can then use to predict the...
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Cyberattacks Abound Yet Companies Tell Sec Losses Are Few
The 27 largest U.S. companies reporting cyber attacks say they sustained no major financial losses, exposing a disconnect with federal officials who say billions...
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Scientific Articles Accepted (personal Checks, Too)
The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional...
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Cool It: Is the Internet Too Hot for Data Centers to Handle?
Internet traffic volume doubles every three years, yet this increase in usage has not been matched by a similar increase in network energy efficiency.
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Planning For Digital Death
Researchers suggest a framework for dealing with gracefully retiring someone's digital identities when they pass on.
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Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business
Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off.
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Will We Ever… Communicate Telepathically?
In a lab at Harvard Medical School, a man is using his mind to wag a rat's tail.
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The Grooviest Words of Medieval Times
New software is determining the dates of British documents from approximately 1066 to the 1400s, based on popular words or phrases they contain.
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Researchers Expose the Human Side of Cybercrime
Researchers are focusing their study of cybercrime on how end users' susceptibility to be victimized is shaped by their online routines.
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Race to Build Driverless Cars Is in Full Throttle
Researchers claim they are just five years away from having all of the tools and the knowledge needed to market a fully autonomous vehicle.
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Software Uses Linkedin Network to Guide Your Career
New software provides career guidance based on the profiles of LinkedIn users.
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Mark Pincus Thinks Angry Birds Won't Hurt Your Kids
You are the founder and C.E.O. of Zynga, a company responsible for addictive games like FarmVille and the forthcoming Draw Something 2. You know, every time I see...
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Feathers Fly as New Rules Loom For Kids' Apps
Kids love Angry Birds, but will Angry Birds love them back?
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How Google Remade the Computer Science Researcher
John Wilkes spent a year negotiating his move to Google, and when he finally agreed to join the company, he still didn’t know what he’d be working on.
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