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The Age of the Sentient Machine Is Upon US
Noting that systems such as Apple's Siri and IBM's Watson supercomputer already can respond to voice recognition and synthesize speech, IBM fellow Grady Booch says...
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Ibm Eyes 'big Data' Help For Brain Injury
Aiming to leverage big data technology for the benefit of healthcare, IBM is working with Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center physicians to develop data-analysis...
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.
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National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
A federal district court judge in San Francisco has ruled that National Security Letter (NSL) provisions in federal law violate the Constitution. The decision came...
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Panorama From Nasa Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp
Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured...
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Finally, A Robot Chimp that Turns Into a Tank
The harrowing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Chilean Copiapó mine collapse: extraordinarily dangerous circumstances...
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Israel Ramps p Its Cyberdefense Training
Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes.
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Creating Indestructible Self-Healing Circuits
Researchers say they have developed self-healing integrated chips that can automatically repair themselves.
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Google Wants to Replace Your Passwords With a Ring
Google has developed rings designed to be worn on the finger that provide security for logging into a computer or an online account.
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Studies Expose Gender Bias in Tech Job Listings
A series of studies has found a subtle gender bias in the way companies word job listings in fields such as engineering and programming.
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Steganography Is No Laughing Matter
A computer scientist has developed an approach to steganography that uses jokes to make hidden messages less obvious.
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Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software
As many as 25 governments, some with controversial human rights records, appear to engage in surveillance of citizens using off-the-shelf software.
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Physicists Say They Have Found a Higgs Boson
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.
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10 Extraordinary Pentagon Mind Experiments
It’s been 30 years since the first message was sent over initial nodes of the Arpanet, the Pentagon-sponsored precursor to the internet. But this month, researchers...
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Cryptographers Demonstrate New Crack For Common Web Encryption
It's long been known that one of the oldest and most widely used standards for encrypting Web sites has some serious weaknesses. But one group of researchers has...
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Quantum Computing Moves Forward
Technologies under development aim to exploit quantum behavior for computing and other applications.
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U.s. Security Chief Warns of Rising Cyber Threats
Cyberattacks represent the greatest threat to U.S. security, according to a new report by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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ltra-High-Speed Optical Communications Link Sets New Power Efficiency Record
IBM researchers have found a way to move large amounts of data within supercomputers while limiting power consumption.
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