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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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As Machines Get Smarter, Evidence They Learn Like US
The brain performs its canonical task—learning—by tweaking its myriad connections according to a secret set of rules.
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Nato rges Military to Recruit White Hat Hacker Army to Boost Defenses
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has called for the military and private industry to recruit more ethical hackers.
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The 'internet of Things' Will Mean Really, Really Big Data
The Internet of things could benefit business in a broad range of areas.
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Guided Growth of Nanowires Leads to Self-Integrated Circuits
Researchers say they have created self-integrating nanowires whose position, length, and direction can be fully controlled.
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A Step Towards Energy-Efficient Voltage Control of Magnetic Devices
A new method creates simultaneous images of both the magnetic and the electric domain structures in ferromagnetic/ferroelectric multilayer materials.
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Studies at the ji Advance in Recognizing People By the Way They Walk
A new biometric security technique is based on the way people walk and their silhouette.
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Sharing Resources in Condo Computing
Condominium computing offers researchers the ability to own computing resources while sharing infrastructure costs.
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They Know Much More Than You Think
In mid-May, Edward Snowden, an American in his late twenties, walked through the onyx entrance of the Mira Hotel on Nathan Road in Hong Kong and checked in.
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Testing the Future: Astronaut in Space Remote-Controls Robot in California
On a pebbled field built next to a parking lot, a small rover scoots forward and expels a long sheet of polyimide plastic from its backside, the third film the...
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The Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
Raymond Laflamme can't yet sell you a quantum computer. But he'll sell you a $13,000 logic board for measuring entangled photons.
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Researchers Build Jumping, Flipping, Hand-Standing Robot
The X-Rhex Lite robot can do a handstand, jump over gaps, and climb over rocks, all movements that could be used in hazardous situations.
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Kindergarten Coders Can Program Before They Can Read
Researchers are studying the ability of kindergarten-aged children to program computers using a graphics-based coding language called ScratchJr.
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Q&a: Tiffani Williams, Computer Scientist, on Creating an Open Source Tree of Life
The Open Tree of Life project aims to develop an open source compendium of existing knowledge on thousands of plant and animal species.
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Make It Yourself and Save--a Lot--With 3D Printers
A typical family can save a lot of money by making things with a 3D printer instead of buying them off the shelf.
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Facebook Invents a Php Virtual Machine
Facebook says it has developed a virtual machine that can run the PHP Web programming language nine times as fast as PHP natively on large systems.
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Government Can Grab Cell Phone Location Records Without Warrant, Appeals Court Says
In a major victory for the Justice Department over privacy advocates, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that government agencies can collect records showing...
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Apps That Know What You Want, Before You Do
In Hollywood, there are umbrella holders. Outside corner offices, there are people who know exactly how much cream to pour in the boss's coffee. In British castles...
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Zeroing In on nbreakable Computer Security
The news out of Moscow of late has been dominated by Edward Snowden, the American leaker of secret state documents who is currently seeking temporary asylum in...
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Yale Grad's 'prism' Program Turns Text Metadata Into Wavy Art
The Prism application analyzes a user's own SMS messages and displays them in a colorful diagram with a timeline.
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