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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What Will Hackers Do with the New Kinect?
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...
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Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
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One Day Your Phone Will Know If You're Happy or Sad
As much time as we spend with our cell phones and laptops and tablets, it's still pretty much a one-way relationship.
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UAB Research Finds New Channels to Trigger Mobile Malware
Researchers have discovered new, hard-to-detect methods for triggering mobile device malware.
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Computer Brain Escapes Google's X Lab to Supercharge Search
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...
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Making Quantum Encryption Practical
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...
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40 Years Ago, Ethernet's Fathers Were the Startup Kids
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs, and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup...
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3D Modeling Technology Offers Groundbreaking Solution for Engineers
New software will make it easier for engineers to develop real-world safety assessments of structures and foundations.
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Robots Learn to Take a Proper Handoff By Following Digitized Human Examples
Researchers have developed a method that allows a humanoid robot to receive an object handed to it by a person with a somewhat-natural human-like motion.
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Security Risks Found in Sensors For Heart Devices, Consumer Electronics
An international research team has exposed a vulnerability in the sensors used in medical devices, Bluetooth microphones, and computers.
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Parcels Find Their Way to You Via the Crowd
A potential crowd-powered delivery system called TwedEx would deliver packages to consumers without requiring them to deviate from normal routes.
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Stacking 2-D Materials Produces Surprising Results
Researchers have made progress on the longstanding challenge of developing a band gap property in graphene, essential for using the material to make transistors...
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Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all the games of SimCity that have been played, no one in the world can actually simulate living things. Biology...
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The Audacious Plan to End Hunger with 3D Printed Food
Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the "replicator" popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself...
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The Future of Propaganda: Sean Gourley on Big Data and the 'war of Ideas'
In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called "The Mathematics of War."
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How to Hack a Nation's Infrastructure
I'm watching a live video feed of people visiting a cafe in London.
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Intel Fuels a Rebellion Around Your Data
Intel Labs is launching a data economy initiative to help consumers realize more of the value of their personal digital information.
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Principles of Ant Locomotion Could Help Future Robot Teams Work nderground
Researchers say they have discovered the fundamental principles of locomotion that robot teams could use to quickly travel through underground tunnels.
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Program Motivates Native Alaskans to Pursue STEM Careers
U.S. education needs improved quality control if it is to produce better results, says the founder of the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program.
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