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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Presidential Candidate: .s., Israel Wary of Iran's Cyber Power
Supreme Leader's top aide Ali Akbar Velayati, who is also a candidate in Iran's presidential election, hailed the Iranian IT engineers and experts for their good...
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Microsoft and IBM Researchers Develop a Lie Detector For the Cloud
Researchers have created software that can see if a cloud service performed its promised work, or whether it may have been compromised and forced to do something...
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Hack a Virus, Win a Prize: Scientist Recognized For 'useful' Germ Modding
The inventor of a viral technology behind tomorrow's electric car batteries, flexible touchscreen computers, and non-invasive cancer screening was awarded a $500...
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Robot Knows When to Pour You a Beer
A robot can anticipate human actions and assist with tasks such as opening a refrigerator door or pouring a drink.
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Let's Play: Making Travel a Game
It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...
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Is Coding the New Second Language?
It's first period at Harlem's Cristo Rey high school, a private Catholic school for motivated low-income kids.
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Sri International Is an Innovation Powerhouse Trying to Rise Above the Noise of Apple, Google, and Facebook
When Intel worried years ago that its marvelous innovation wasn't being noticed by consumers-at-large, it launched the ubiquitous "Intel Inside" campaign.
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Nasa's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon...
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Ibm's Vision For Cognitive Computing Era
IBM is developing computer systems modeled on the human brain that will leverage big data to significantly impact everyday life.
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'blue Waters' Supercomputer Helps Crack Hiv Code
Researchers used the Blue Waters supercomputer to discover the structure of the HIV capsid.
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Html5 Webpage Locks 'would Stifle Innovation'
The Electronic Freedom Foundation objects to the World Wide Web Consortium's plans to include ways to digitally lock media in HTML5.
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Apple Co-Founder Outlines 'human' Computer Vision
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak envisions a future human-like computer "like a person and we can have normal conversations with it."
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Computer Scientists Oppose Oracle's Bid to Copyright Java Apis
Nearly three dozen computer scientists say Oracle's plan to copyright its Java application programming interface would hinder the computer industry and limit access...
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ssr's Old Domain Name Attracts Cybercriminals
The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving.
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Wanted For the Internet of Things: Ant-Size Computers
If the Internet is to reach everywhere—from the pills you swallow to the shoes on your feet—then computers will need to get a whole lot smaller.
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The Reporting Gap on the Patent Gender Gap
It's hard to tell whether women are obtaining more science and engineering patents than they used to, when several reports on the subject can't seem to agree.
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Israeli Computer Science Company Devises Technology to Speed p Video Display
A new video synopsis software compresses hours of video into just minutes, enabling police to quickly review action captured on surveillance cameras.
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Sony and Lego Collaborating on Toy Research
Sony recently unveiled a collaboration with Lego on a new generation of products that could bridge the gap between toys and video games.
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