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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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Hogwarts For Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow
The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy public live-in high school for students who excel at math and science, allows students at their own pace.
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Paypal's $100,000 Battle Hack Competition Wants Cool Social Apps
In PayPal's software-coding competition, Battle Hack, software developers vie to create a socially beneficial application that uses PayPal payment processing.
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The Hi-Tech Tattoo That Could Replace All Your Passwords: Motorola Reveals Plans For Ink, and Even Pills, to Identify S
Seeking more-secure alternatives to passwords for online sites and mobile devices, Motorola is focusing on electronic tattoos and authentication pills.
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How Can Computing Become More Accessible?
A growing number of tools and strategies are available to make computers and digital content accessible to people with disabilities.
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Nasa Spacecraft Sees Tornado's Destructive Swath
A new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the extent of destruction...
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Nsa Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers,...
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Wisee ses Wi-Fi Signals to Recognize Body Gestures
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.
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They're Coming for Your DNA
DNA analysis is the major crime-solving advance of our time.
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Mit's Magic Bag Of Sand
The camera pushes in. And there, near the meridian line, you see a faint scattering of red lights. Something is in the tar. And it's glowing.
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Researcher Cracks the Code on What Makes a Tweet Popular
Researchers have built a model to predict how many retweets any given tweet on Twitter will receive.
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This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
A new program called Plan X is designed to facilitate cyberwarfare executed in a manner similar to playing a video game.
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Robot Arm Wrapped in Sensitive Skin Has Gentle Touch
Researchers have developed a robot arm that navigates by using the sense of touch, rather than trying to avoid bumping into people and objects.
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Cerf Sees a Problem: Today's Digital Data Could Be Gone Tomorrow
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf worries that much of the data generated since the Internet's beginning will be lost over time.
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Automatically Grading Programming Homework
Researchers have created software that points out inaccuracies in student programming and offers suggestions for improvement.
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Fixing America's Patent Problem Means Going Beyond Trolls
The so-called patent troll has become one of the tech industry’s favorite monsters in recent years, and on Tuesday the Obama administration announced it would ...
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This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet.
Get right up close to Dmitry Itskov and sniff all you like—you will not pick up even the faintest hint of crazy.
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A Camera Without a Lens (and a Sensor the Size of a Pixel)
Cameras as we know them have long been eye-like: a lens captures light and focuses it on film or a detection sensor, just as the lenses in our eyes focus light...
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The Next Frontier of Wireless Tech? Your Body
A miniaturized version of sonar technology will be applied inside the human body, to treat diseases in real time.
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Tingly Projections Make Beamed Gadgets Come Alive
Researchers have developed a system that can beam the outline of computer keyboards or cellphones onto any surface, including the hand.
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