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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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Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space
Tim Webber is a visual effects supervisor who has worked on an array of critically acclaimed blockbusters.
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Mobile Devices of the Future Will Get Energy From Everywhere Except the Wall Socket
Scientists are advancing new wireless methods of harvesting power from the environment, people, and devices themselves.
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Iupui Researchers Use Computers to 'see' Neurons to Better Understand Brain Function
New information about the brain could help those developing therapies to treat conditions such as stroke, schizophrenia, spinal cord injury, or Alzheimer's disease...
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What the Internet of 2025 Might Look Like
The Pew Research Center has released responses from science and technology experts about what the future Internet might look like.
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It's Cool to Be a Geek, Eu Tells Women
The European Commission has created a new campaign to attract women to the information and communications technology sector.
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
While you are in space, could you keep a diary?
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Nasa's Wise Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No 'planet X'
After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized...
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Bouncing Robot Could Soften Future Nasa Landings
‘Tensegrity’ provides an alternative to lots of rugged equipment.
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Cyberwar in kraine Falls Far Short of Russia's Full Powers
The tense on-the-ground standoff in Ukraine has already tipped into open hostilities online, with hackers targeting members of parliament and state agencies.
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Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives
Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks.
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Linux Foundation to Offer Introductory Linux Mooc on Edx
The Linux Foundation plans to offer a Linux development course on edX, the massive open online course platform developed by MIT and Harvard University.
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Stanford's Folding@home Simulates Activation of Key Cancer Protein, Could Lead to Novel Drug Design
Stanford's Folding@home project has simulated Src Kinase, which plays an important role in many cancers.
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Seeking Quantum-Ness: D-Wave Chip Passes Rigorous Tests
Researchers have shown the D-Wave One processor behaves in a way that agrees with a model called quantum Monte Carlo, yet disagrees with two candidate classical...
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Detecting Software Errors sing Genetic Algorithms
Saarland University professor Andreas Zeller and his colleagues have developed software that automatically tests other programs for errors.
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Google's Project Loon: The Gamble That's So Crazy It Might Work
Google recently launched Project Loon, which provides Wi-Fi connectivity to remote locations using high-altitude balloons, wind currents, and solar power.
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Missing Malaysia Jet Adds Fuel to 'live Black Box' Debate
Regardless of what caused a Malaysia Airlines jet to disappear from the sky over the weekend, air-safety experts predict it will reignite debate over new technology...
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Hot on the Trail of Consciousness in Brain and Machine
"Nowhere in science have so many devoted so much to create so little consensus," writes physicist, author, and TV presenter Michio Kaku of consciousness research...
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...
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Are You Too Paranoid About Digital Privacy, or Not Paranoid Enough?
Let's start with one thing you hear over and over again when interviewing people about privacy: "I've got nothing to hide."
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