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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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China Trounces .s. in Top500 Supercomputer Race
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has overtaken the U.S.'s Titan system as the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest Top500 List, a twice-yearly...
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Programming Model for Supercomputers of the Future
Next-generation supercomputers could benefit from an asynchronous programming model developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics.
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A Revolution in the Making
On a dark and stormy night two weeks ago in Schenectady, N.Y., Ken Hislop was relaxing at home when his cellphone suddenly began buzzing in his pocket. It was an...
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Will the Nsa Rethink Its Data Collection System?
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Joel Brenner, former senior counsel at the National Security Agency, about whether the NSA can protect Americans'...
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Data Highways For Quantum Information
Vienna University of Technology researchers have developed a quantum technique that makes it possible to store quantum information over a sufficiently long period...
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Computer Memory Can Be Read with a Flash of Light
Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing—random-access memory, or RAM—and slow...
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Making Online Translation Accurate, Reliable, and Efficient
The European Union is funding Multilingual On-Line Translation, a project designed to create an online tool that will enable Web-content providers to automatically...
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Researchers Reveal Next-Generation Emergency Response Technology
New smartphone apps can virtually place 9-1-1 operators at the scene of an emergency. The software enables operators to remotely control smartphone cameras so they...
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Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind
In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo's top lawyers made their case.
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CIA Releases Analyst's Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
It took eight years after artist Jim Sanborn unveiled his cryptographic sculpture at the CIA's headquarters for someone to succeed at cracking Kryptos's enigmatic...
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Now Hear This: Navy Abandons All Caps
MESSAGES SENT WITHIN THE U.S. NAVY NO LONGER HAVE TO BE WRITTEN OUT IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
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Computer Scientists Grapple With How to Manage the Digital Legacy of the Departed
Current concerns for privacy and access shows a disconnect between the disposition of digital legacies and the technological advancements for generating them.
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Big Data: When Cars Can Talk
The technologies already exist to allow vehicles to communicate with each other, with an ultimate benefit of safer roads.
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The Body Electric: Researchers Move Closer to Low-Cost, Implantable Electronics
Technology currently under development could lead to low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue inside the human body.
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Carnegie Mellon Method Uses Network of Cameras to Track People in Complex Indoor Settings
Researchers have developed a method for tracking the locations of multiple individuals in complex, indoor settings using a network of video cameras.
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New Tasks Become as Simple as Waving a Hand With Brain-Computer Interfaces
People could learn to control robotic or prosthetic limbs without ongoing concentration, thanks to the way the human brain approaches brain-computer interfaces. ...
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China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower
Two weeks ago, Jack Dongarra flew to Changsha, China for a meeting with researchers at the National University of Defense Technology, home to the country's top...
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The Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks
Ten years ago, few people would have heard of a social network.
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Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools
With school districts rushing to buy computers, tablets, digital white boards, and other technology, a new report questions whether the investment is worth it.
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