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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Fraud, Corruption Infect Poland’s Computer Science Community
Academics face legal proceedings for allegedly extorting research grants.
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.
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Neanderthals Had Outsize Effect on Human Biology
Our ancestors were not a picky bunch.
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Consortium Including MIT Awarded $110m National Grant to Promote Photonics Manufacturing
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics will work to advance U.S. capabilities in integrated photonic technology.
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Did These Researchers Just Create an Autistic Computer Program?
Baylor College of Medicine researchers claim to have modeled a theorized cause of autism in an artificial neural network.
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Scientists in Greece Design Cryptographic E-Voting Platform
Researchers in Greece say they have designed the world's first encrypted electronic voting system in which voters can confirm their votes go to the intended candidate...
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China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet
China's government aims to redraft the rules of the global Internet so it can regulate the Internet on its own terms.
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India Loves Moocs
Massively open online courses have taken off in a big way in India, where they are meeting a need for education, particularly technical education.
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change
After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.
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In Silicon Valley, Coders Are Making More Room For Curators
It's been almost a decade since the debut of the Netflix Prize, a $1 million bounty for the person or group that could best improve the company’s movie suggestion...
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Physicists Restart Souped-p Hadron Collider
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...
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Penn Researchers Discover New Chiral Property of Silicon, With Photonic Applications
University of Pennsylvania researchers say they have discovered a property of silicon that combines aspects of photonic and spintronic computing.
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Scientists Stretch Electrically Conducting Fibers to New Lengths
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed electrically conducting fibers that can be reversibly stretched to more than 14 times their initial length...
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Crystal Clear
University of California, Santa Barbara professor Stephen D. Wilson is working to find the 21st century's equivalent of silicon.
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ts Data Arena: How Raw Data Transforms Into 3d, 360-Degree Visualization
Software developers at the University of Technology, Sydney have developed a three-dimensional, 360-degree data visualization room called the Data Arena.
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Researchers Enlist Machine Learning in Malware Detection
Cylance researchers are using machine learning to improve malware detection.
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Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone
The most sensitive work environments, like nuclear power plants, demand the strictest security.
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Kepler-452b: What It Would Be Like to Live On Earth's 'cousin'
Kepler-452b may be Earth's close cousin, but living on the newfound world would still be an alien experience.
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What We're Really Looking At When We Look at Pluto
The images of Pluto that the New Horizons probe beamed across 3 billion miles of hard vacuum are, in a word, breathtaking.
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