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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Plug-and-Play Luxury Home
When it is completed in early 2018, Muse, a 49-story luxury-condo development in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., will have an automated parking system with push-button...
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Device Could Boost Image Quality For Phones, Computers, and Tvs
A new device could significantly improve the quality of images on smartphones, computer displays, TVs, and inkjet printers.
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National Day of Civic Hacking Widens Reach in Second Year
The National Day of Civic Hacking this year will broaden its scope to 79 international cities and 98 civic hacking events from May 31 to June 1.
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Saving Crops and People With Bug Sensors
A new method of classifying insects could help protect crops from insect damage and limit the spread of insect-borne diseases.
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Recruiting the Next Generation of STEM Employees
Some hiring experts suggest programs to reach K-12 students will help nurture next-generation science, technology, engineering, and math employees.
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Will We Ever… Control the Weather?
With 2,000 drummers, 15,000 other performers and vast quantities of fireworks, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was a dazzling spectacle.
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Surveying African Cities Using Twitter
Researchers are using Twitter to help determine quantitative information on economic activity, population counts, and other measures in developing countries.
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Wiring of Retina Reveals How Eyes Sense Motion
A vast project to map neural connections in the mouse retina may have answered the long-standing question of how the eyes detect motion.
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Computer System Automatically Solves Word Problems
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with colleagues at the University of Washington, have developed a new computer...
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Self-Assembly Required: One Scientist's Bid to Build Cancer-Killing Nanorobots
The term "cancer killing nanorobot" could conjure up all sorts of images, the best involving teeny tiny laser eyebeams.
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U.s. Domain Deregulation Could Fragment World Wide Web Into 'splinternet'
President Barack Obama's intention to relinquish U.S. control of domain name oversight has critics in an uproar.
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Researchers Try New 'twist' on Smartwatches
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a prototype smartwatch that can be controlled by the wearer's hand gestures, or by clicking its face.
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Giving Robots the Sense of Touch
Glasgow University researcher Ravinder Dahiya will spend the next four years developing ultra-flexible tactile skin for robotics and prosthetics.
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World's Thinnest Nanowires May Lead to Foldable Tablets, Smartphones
Researchers have created nanowires 1/1,000th the width of the microscopic wires used today to connect transistors in integrated computer chips.
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Eugene Kaspersky: Major Cyberterrorist Attack Is Only Matter of Time
A major, global cyberterrorist attack has long been the stuff of fiction, the threat that a malevolent hacker could bring down businesses, sabotage power plants...
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Meet the Fed's First Line of Defense Against Cyber Attacks
The U.S. Federal Reserve's first line of defense against cyberattacks is a group of employees who sift through its networks daily looking for indications of hacking...
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Internationally Renowned Informatics Center Names New Scientific Director
Professor Raimund Seidel took on the role of Scientific Director of Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics on May 1, 2014, as successor to founding director...
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Basic Science Finds Corporate Refuge
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.
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