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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The New Digital Arms Race: Nsa Preps America For Future Battle
Documents provided by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden outline the agency's efforts to carry out covert cyberwarfare.
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Microsoft Researchers se Light Beams to Charge Smartphones
Microsoft researchers in Beijing have developed AutoCharge, a prototype automatic wireless charging system for smartphones.
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Rice-Sized Laser, Powered One Electron at a Time, Bodes Well For Quantum Computing
Princeton University researchers have developed a rice grain-sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots.
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How Does a Machine Smell? Better Than It Did
Researchers have developed a chemical sensor platform that can smell more accurately than humans.
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Making the Internet Accessible to Everyone
The third pilot of the Internet accessibility CLOUD4ALL project will kick off in Athens, Berlin, and Madrid in the coming months.
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Cops Get Handheld Radar that Can 'detect People Breathing' Through Walls
At least 50 local law enforcement agencies—and the United States Marshals—have acquired a type of handheld radar that allows cops to scan through walls to detect...
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Have We Found Alien Life?
Kenneth Nealson is looking awfully sane for a man who’s basically just told me that he has a colony of aliens incubating in his laboratory.
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The Daunting Challenge of Reporting on Cyberwar
The US and UK are soon to take part in cyber war games, testing each other out for when the inevitable real cyberwar kicks off.
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Dawn Delivers New Image of Ceres
As NASA's Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images show the dwarf planet at 27 pixels across, about three times better than the calibration images taken in...
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High-Tech Warriors: A Glimpse Into the Stadium of the Future
Floor tiles that generate electricity when people walk on them. Streetlamps that transmit data to people passing beneath them.
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Wpi Awarded $4.4 Million to Help Bolster the Nation's Cybersecurity Workforce
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has been awarded a $4.4-million grant to develop a program to prepare professionals to address cybersecurity challenges and threats...
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Mathematician Tries to Solve Wave Equations
University of California, Los Angeles professor Terence Tao is using computers to help him solve a tricky mathematical question.
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How to Predict Responses to Disease
Researchers have developed a computer model that could help public health officials take steps to limit the dangers of a disease outbreak.
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Google Translate App Gets an pgrade
Google upgraded its Google Translate app last week, adding two new tools that expand the smartphone app's capabilities.
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Celebrations to Commemorate Boole’s 200th Birthday
The creator of Boolean algebra and Boolean logic is remembered.
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Attempts to Predict Terrorist Attacks Hit Limits
From France to Nigeria, the world is reeling from a wave of deadly terrorist attacks.
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Here's What Helped Sony's Hackers Break In: Zero-Day Vulnerability
The hackers behind the devastating attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment late last year exploited a previously undisclosed vulnerability in its computer systems...
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Artificial-Intelligence Experts to Explore Turing Test Triathlon
Intelligentsia of AI will gather to come up with a battery of alternatives to the traditional Turing test.
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