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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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Your Computer Could Help Unlock the Universe’s Mysteries in Its Free Time
The University of California, Berkeley's Open Infrastructure for Network Computing program enables PCs to work together to create a virtual supercomputer.
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Cultures of Code
Computing is a fragmented field, writes Brian Hayes, looking at three professionals who use and develop software on a daily basis, from different perspectives.
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of R Grad's Studies tilize Google Glass
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral student is studying how Google Glass can improve the quality of life of people on the autism spectrum.
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Ensuring Security for Networks of the Future
Security for next-generation company networks will be the focus of a presentation at the CeBIT trade fair in Hannover, Germany, in March.
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Exoplanet Bounty Includes Most Earth-Like Worlds Yet
NASA's Kepler space telescope has hit a milestone: confirming the existence of 1,000 planets, including a fresh crop of alien worlds that are more Earth-like than...
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New Stanford Course Brings Silicon Valley to the Humanities Classroom
Stanford University's new Literature and Social Online Learning course brings computer science and humanities students together in one classroom.
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Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with 'deep Learning'
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...
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Someday Soon, You May Pay Your Restaurant Bill With A Retina Scan
The past 30 years have seen payments shift from cash and checks to debit cards and websites, and most recently to mobile phone apps, including Apple Pay and ...
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NASA's Messenger Probe Ready for Final Tour of Mercury
The first spacecraft to orbit Mercury is almost out of gas.
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Privacy By Design: Protect User Data From 'get-Go'
The Privacy By Design project seeks to develop a framework for governments and companies to consider privacy protection from the start of a product's development...
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Heads-Up Technology Puts Data on Car Windshields at Ces
Automakers and third-party vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week are demonstrating windshield-based heads-up displays.
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Tougher to se Bitcoin For Crime?
Researchers say they have found ways to determine the identity of anonymous Bitcoin users in between 11 and 60 percent of all Bitcoin transactions.
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Nasa to Hack Mars Rover Opportunity to Fix 'amnesia' Fault
The Mars rover Opportunity is having memory problems that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration will try to fix remotely.
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Robots Do Kitchen Duty With Cooking Video Dataset
Researchers have built a self-learning robot that was able to improve its cooking skills by watching YouTube videos.
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
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'Internet of Things' Poses Risks, FTC Chairwoman Warns
By 2015, the world will have 25 billion smart thermostats, fitness bands, and other Internet-connected, data-spewing devices, according to the Federal Trade Commission...
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Galaxy Seen Shuddering from Ancient Collision
Using thousands of exposures from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created the sharpest and deepest image ever assembled of the Andromeda galaxy.
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Energy Harvesting Extends Life of Small Devices
Capturing ambient energy can keep off-grid devices running.
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Simple Pictures That State-of-the-Art AI Still Can't Recognize
Look at these black and yellow bars and tell me what you see.
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