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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Nature's Patterns: Golden Spirals and Branching Fractals
Certain patterns, such as the fractal, are repeated over and over in nature—with some spectacular contrasts on wildly different scales.
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Up Against Laws of Physics, Bell Labs Pushes Network Performance
By using more spectrum and developing new ways to send multiple channels of data at the same time, researchers at Bell Labs are working to increase bandwidths over...
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If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?
Armies of the finest minds in computer science have dedicated themselves to improving the odds of making a sale.
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U.s. Challenges China in Supercomputing Race With 180-Petaflop System
The United States, in an attempt to surpass China in the supercomputing arms race, plans to build a 180-petaflop supercomputer called Aurora.
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How Robots Can Help Build Better Doctors
A team at the University of Notre Dame is developing an improved human patient simulator, a mannequin exhibiting lifelike behaviors to help train medical personnel...
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Quantum Teleportation on a Chip
An international team of researchers have successfully integrated the core circuits of quantum teleportation into a photonic chip.
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Computer Sharing of Personality in Sight: Inventor
Computers could one day take on the personality of their human users, according to Google X laboratory founder Sebastian Thrun.
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China Deploys New Weapon For Online Censorship in Form of 'great Cannon'
Two recent distributed denial-of-service attacks represent some of the first uses of a new tool in China's cyber arsenal, dubbed the "Great Cannon."
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U.s. Nuclear Fears Block Intel China Supercomputer Update
The U.S. government has refused to let Intel help China update the world's biggest supercomputer.
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The Solar System and Beyond Is Awash in Water
As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places.
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Better Sensors For Medical Imaging, Contraband Detection
MIT researchers have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than its predecessors. It could lead to miniaturized...
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Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Software's neasy Glare
Before Betsy Chao, a senior here at Rutgers University, could take midterm exams in her online courses this semester, her instructors sent emails directing students...
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Making Big Data Work
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a framework for working with big data.
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Computers That Mimic the Function of the Brain
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new type of memristor technology that can remember how much current has flowed through it.
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Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech's Least Friended Man
When technology executives imagine the boogeyman, they see a baby-face guy in wire-rim glasses. His name is Jay Edelson.
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Expert Panel Discusses Issue of New Principles For Internet Governance
A panel of Internet experts recently addressed the question of what kind of Internet users want.
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Gotcha! Ultra-Realistic Robot Proves There's More Than One Way to Scare a Fish
Researchers have developed bio-inspired robotic models that serve as controllable stimuli for experiments studying animal behavior.
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Nasa, IBM Team Up on Global Hackathon to Solve Earth's Problems
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration this weekend will hold its fourth annual space apps hackathon.
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Teaching a Computer Not to Forget
Imagine if every time you learned something new, you completely forgot how to do a thing you'd already learned.
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