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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Stealing Data from Computers sing Heat
Air-gapped systems, which are isolated from the Internet and are not connected to other systems that are connected to the Internet, are used in situations that...
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Doing Astronomy with Neutrinos
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.
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The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was
On October 16, 2011, the early evening weather on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, was almost unspeakably gorgeous—mild as a warm bath,...
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High-Resolution 3D Scans Built From Drone Photos
Drones offer an inexpensive way to capture three-dimensional scans of buildings, terrain, and other objects.
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Satellite Imagery Can Aid Development Projects
New software can identify houses in rural villages from satellite images, potentially saving time that would otherwise be spent sending teams from village to village...
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Atlas of Thoughts
Aarhus University researchers are using computer games to help them tackle some of the fundamental problems of quantum computing.
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'smart Bandage' Detects Bedsores Before They Are Visible to Doctors
A new smart bandage uses electrical currents to detect tissue damage from pressure ulcers before they are visible and while recovery is still possible.
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Robot Model for Infant Learning Shows Bodily Posture May Affect Memory and Learning
Researchers have used robot models of infants to study how "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of physical objects, are connected to the position...
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What's the Price Now?
Dynamic pricing finds its way into a growing number of industries.
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Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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Molecular Moonshots
Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.
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'space Lawyers' Help Startups Navigate the Final Legal Frontier
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.
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The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible
Programming pioneer Edsger W. Dijkstra's namesake algorithm remains one of the cleverest things in computer science.
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How the Dark Web Spurs a Spying 'arms Race'
It's a technological arms race, pure and simple.
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Rosetta Is Tailing a Warming Comet
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft caught up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last August, then dropped a lander onto the comet in November. Now...
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What Your Tweets Say About You
How much can your tweets reveal about you? Judging by the last nine hundred and seventy-two words that I used on Twitter, I'm about average when it comes to feeling...
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Your Desktop Computer Is Wasting a Surprising Amount of Energy While You're Not sing It
The California Energy Commission has released a set of draft standards aimed at increasing the energy efficiency of desktop computers and monitors.
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.s. Must Step p Capacity For Cyberattacks, Chief Argues
The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command advocated development of cyberweapons as a means of deterring cyberattacks.
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Will Smart Machines Make S Stupid? AI Experts Weigh In
Experts on artificial intelligence discussed the future of the field this week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX.
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