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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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More Connected Homes, More Problems
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...
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As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House
Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people.
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Hardware Trick Could Keep Cloud Data Safe
The new Ascend chip could protect data in the cloud by concealing the way in which central processing units request information in cloud servers.
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Twitter Tracker Shows Where Food Poisoning Is a Risk
A new machine-learning system can track tweets and show which restaurants are giving people food poisoning.
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Views You Can se? How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment
Are you influenced by the opinions of other people—say, in the comments sections of websites?
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Linkedin Connects Big Data, Human Resources
Every second, more than two more people join LinkedIn's network of 238 million members.
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How Wearable Technology Could Transform Business
Once upon a time seeing your life flash before your eyes was something people did their best to avoid. The arrival of Google Glass seems to have changed that.
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Electric Therapy For Medical-Device Malware
A new system designed to catch malware on medical devices by noting subtle changes in their power consumption is designated WattsUpDoc.
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NASA Calls on Researchers to Build Smarter Space Robot
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced a new challenge focused on building a smart robot.
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Google's Project Loon Begins Tests in California
Google will test its Project Loon in California's Central Valley.
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Dhs Adds Foraging to Tech Arsenal
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security can turn to technology foraging when it does not have a specific technology needed to solve a problem.
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Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost
It's a cognitive leap forward. IBM can now program an experimental chip they unveiled two years ago.
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5.5-Million-Euro Virtual Train Tests Project Nears Completion
The DynoTRAIN project allows manufacturers of rail vehicles to test trains virtually, to ensure they meet safety standards while saving on development costs.
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Cyborg Parts
Lab-made organs could do more than just serve as ready options for patients in need: with the right blend of biology and materials science, they might even be able...
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Exotic Optics: Metamaterial World
Tom Driscoll would be happy if he never heard the phrase "Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak" again.
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Nsa Claims It 'touches' Only 1.6 Percent of Internet Traffic
Just hours after President Obama defended the National Security Agency's activities, the foreign surveillance agency released a document in which it claims to review...
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...
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Nsa to Cut System Administrators By 90 Percent to Limit Data Access
The U.S. National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent...
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Nasa Working on Tech to Take Humans to Mars – and Bring Them Back
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working on the technologies needed to take astronauts to Mars and back.
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