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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'ambiguous' Warfare Buys Upgrade Time For Russia's Military
Unmarked Russian soldiers who seized Ukraine's Crimea region earlier this year gave every appearance of military professionals well equipped with modern body armor...
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
Researchers say there needs to be ethical guidelines in place for social science studies that use personal data collected by various social media websites.
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Energy Harvested From Body, Environment Could Power Wearables, IoT Devices
Low-power wearable devices may soon stop using batteries and start drawing energy generated by body heat and movement, as well as ambient energy from the environment...
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No Boys Allowed: Girls Who Code Takes on Gender Gap
The nonprofit Girls Who Code's summer program has grown from 20 girls in one classroom in 2012 to 380 girls in classrooms at 16 companies across the country.
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It Jobs: Which States Show Most Growth?
Dice's August jobs report found Texas leads in technology job growth in 2014 based on new hiring data, followed by Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington...
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Pairing Old Technologies With New For Next Generation Electronic Devices
University College London researchers say they have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons...
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...
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Okcupid's Co-Founder on Experiments, Data Science and the Myth of the 'unicorn'
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...
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A Grand Vision For the Impossible
Subhash Khot's bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limitations of computation.
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Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.
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Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style
Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.
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Microsoft Shows Off Video Stabilization Tools
New software from Microsoft researchers can stabilize shaky video taken while cycling, climbing, kayaking, or engaging in some other high-speed sport, and speed...
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Seven Ways DARPA Is Trying to Kill the Password
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research at institutions working on desktop and mobile authentication technologies.
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The Internet of Things Brings Far-Reaching Security Threats
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency program manager Randy Garrett warns the advent of the Internet of Things will create a large number of new threat...
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STEM Partnerships Connect Students to Schools and Libraries
Public libraries have started partnering with local schools to provide science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to students. A recent survey...
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Can an Armadillo Paper Airplane Fly? Autodesk Says Yes
We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds.
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When Hackers Test For Flaws, They Might Earn Cash—or Threats
To hack or not to hack?
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Why One of Cybersecurity's Thought Leaders ses a Pager Instead of a Smart Phone
In the computer and network security industry, few people are as well known as Dan Geer.
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Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms
Industry demand for data scientists is exploding with many businesses looking for people skilled in sifting through massive volumes of data streaming in from different...
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