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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Identifying Signs of Chronic Brain Injury in Living Football Players
Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain disorder called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition...
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Moore's Law Isn't Making Chips Cheaper Anymore
At a wine bar in San Francisco on Wednesday, Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli delivered some sobering news: Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore...
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Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system—a...
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Data Mining Reveals the Secret to Getting Good Answers
A new algorithm can rank the questions and answers on question and answer websites, while weeding out off-topic and irrelevant entries.
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Can You Read My Mind? Uc Researchers Engineer the Framework For Helpful Robots With Human Intuition
Robots are expected to play an increasingly large role in daily life over the next 50 years.
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Experimental Malware ses Inaudible Sound to Defeat Network Air Gaps
Researchers have tested the feasibility of creating a covert acoustical mesh network between multiple laptops to exchange data using near-ultrasonic frequencies...
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Students pdate Classic Animation Technique
Much of the repetitive manual work involved in the classic squash and stretch animation technique has been automated in a new software program.
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Google's C Alternative Gets an Update, but Will Developers Bite?
Google this week released version 1.2 of its Go open source programming language, designed to improve on certain aspects of languages similar to C.
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see...
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3-D Images, With Only One Photon Per Pixel
Lidar rangefinders, which are common tools in surveying and in autonomous-vehicle control, among other applications, gauge depth by emitting short bursts of laser...
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China Bars Banks from Bitcoin Transactions
China's government banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin on Thursday, in what analysts said was a restrained first step towards regulating the digital...
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Self-Replicating Usbs Spread Software Faster Than an Internet Connection
An easy, inexpensive way to transmit large software packages rapidly without using the Internet utilizes a self-replicating bootable USB stick.
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Enhancing the Efficiency of Complex Computations
The science and industry sectors are showing considerable interest in the Karlsruhe High Quality Partitioner.
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Researchers se Shopping Cart to Put Mobile, Nfc Payment Theft on Wheels
Researchers have found that contactless payments are more vulnerable then previously believed.
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Mit, Notre Dame, t San Antonio Help Build Hybrid Cloud Environment For Education
Internet2 is working to bring a hybrid cloud environment to its community of research and educational institutions.
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Shazam! How the Music Industry Hears What You (will) Love
At some point in 2014, your friends are totally going to be into this Dutch DJ named Martin Garrix.
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Japanese Robots Earn Their Keep
Japanese researchers have developed a robot designed to provide assistance and companionship to human astronauts who spend months working in space.
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When Bitcoins Go Bad: 4 Stories of Fraud, Hacking, and Digital Currencies
With Bitcoin interest (and prices) spiking, you might be considering investing in your own little cache of digital currency.
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