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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen
The Wikipedia Foundation formed a team of software developers to focus on developing the site for use with mobile devices.
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Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences
The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big...
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Tim Berners-Lee: We Need to Re-Decentralize the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee called on the public to refocus on a decentralized, open Internet.
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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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New 'Mask' APT Campaign Called Most Sophisticated
A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage...
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DARPA Thinks the Future of Surveillance Looks Like Siri
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Dan Kaufman says an innovation gap exists as the private sector advances in areas in which the government was once...
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Snowden sed Low-Cost Tool to Best NSA
Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to "scrape" the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) networks, according to intelligence officials...
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Can a Statistical Model Accurately Predict Olympic Medal Counts?
If someone asked you to predict the number of medals each country is going to win in this year's Olympics, you'd probably try to identify the favored athletes in...
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The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...
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Edison Electrifies Scientific Computing
The U.S. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, recently accepted Edison, a new flagship...
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This Iphone-Size Device Can Hack A Car, Researchers Plan To Demonstrate
Auto makers have long downplayed the threat of hacker attacks on their cars and trucks, arguing that their vehicles' increasingly networked systems are protected...
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Google's Ray Kurzweil Envisions New Era of Search
In an interview, Google engineering chief Ray Kurzweil discussed a new type of search engine that he is developing, noting that search engines will have increasingly...
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NASA's Troubled $8-Billion Hubble Successor Is Back on Track
The Hubble Space Telescope is still operating, but its successor is already waiting in the wings.
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Model Predicts Growth, Death of Facebook and Other Membership-Based Websites
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a computational model to assess the viability of websites and social networks and predict which sites are...
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The Public Eye?
In 2011, the Indian government launched the UIDAI program to collect the iris patterns and fingerprints of all of its 1.2 billion citizens within three years....
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When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
Since the beginning of this century, the most rapidly advancing field in the life sciences, and perhaps in human inquiry of any sort, has been genomics.
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'alan Turing: His Work and Impact' Named 2013 Prose Award Winner
The PROSE Awards, one of the most prestigious competitions in professional and scholarly publishing, praised the work as a fitting tribute to the life of the legendary...
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IBM and PARC to Design Sensitive Electronics for Military that Shatter to Dust on Command
Two U.S. companies are joining a military research program to develop sensitive electronic components able to self-destruct on command to keep them out of the hands...
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A Robotic Hand, This Time with Feeling
A Dutch man who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident nine years ago is now able to feel different kinds of pressure on three fingers of a prosthetic, robotic...
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