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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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Students Develop Secure New Procedure For Online Banking
Researchers working with a financial IT solutions firm have developed a process that makes online banking more secure.
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Kim Dotcom Is the Anti-Zuckerberg: Share Nothing, Encrypt Everything, Be Happy
Appearing like a retro-futuristic apparition, digitally transmitted through pneumatic tubes from a future that was but will never be, the disembodied head of Kim...
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Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving Forward
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer.
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Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.k. With It
Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China’s online surveillance apparatus.
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Facebook 'likes' Predict Personality
Researchers at Cambridge University used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual orientation.
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Practicing Medicine at the Nanoscale
Modern medicine is largely based on treating patients with "small-molecule" drugs, which include pain relievers like aspirin and antibiotics such as penicillin.
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Big Data, Big Blunders
Companies are finding that big data doesn't necessarily translate into easy success.
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How Big Data Is Changing the Whole Equation For Business
There's a ton of information out there. And businesses are figuring out how to put it to work.
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Star Trek 'holodeck' in the Living Room?
With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV screen, new technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards something even closer to real life...
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Disentangling Photons and Atoms to Keep Quantum Systems Clean
In quantum physics, the divisions between object and observer—the systems and environment—become blurred.
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Crowdsourcing Platforms Monitor Disease, Dissent, and Disasters
Crowdsourcing platforms developed to aid epidemiological investigations have been repurposed to catalog political strife in Syria.
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Making Music Wins Over Computer Science Majors
A hands-on music project as part of an entry-level digital music class helps students learn complex computer science concepts.
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Report Highlights Latest Data on Women, Minorities and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Women, persons with disabilities, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanics appear underrepresented in science and engineering education and jobs.
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More Secure Bank Cards
A new automated system can inspect handwritten signatures directly on a bank card.
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China's Next-Generation Internet Is a World-Beater
China is developing a next-generation national Internet that reportedly is on a larger scale than anything being developed in the West.
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Algorithms Get a Human Hand in Steering Web
While the work computers do becomes increasingly complex, humans still may be called upon to provide the programs with context and nuance.
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Sxsw: Google's Amit Singhal Talks Natural-Language Search, Mobile
How do you build a search engine that's more attuned to natural language, capable of divining what you mean, and giving back what you want?
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Web-Based 'brain' For Robots Goes Live
Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online.
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