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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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High-Tech Warriors: A Glimpse Into the Stadium of the Future
Floor tiles that generate electricity when people walk on them. Streetlamps that transmit data to people passing beneath them.
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Attempts to Predict Terrorist Attacks Hit Limits
From France to Nigeria, the world is reeling from a wave of deadly terrorist attacks.
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Here's What Helped Sony's Hackers Break In: Zero-Day Vulnerability
The hackers behind the devastating attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment late last year exploited a previously undisclosed vulnerability in its computer systems...
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'lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found By Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
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Nasa Begins Countdown to Pluto Flyby
Today marks the beginning of the world’s encounter with Pluto, as a NASA spacecraft that has journeyed for nine years begins its first phrase of approach to the...
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What Advanced Tech Will Dominate Your Car By 2025? IBM Knows
An IBM study on the future of automotive technologies found self-healing cars and connections to the Internet of Things are the wave of the future.
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Keeping Better Tabs on Suspicious Persons
A cyber security researcher wonders if information technology, the Internet, and social media could determine whether a suspicious person is likely to commit a...
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Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online
A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.
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Crystal-Rich Rock 'mojave' Is Next Mars Drill Target
A rock target where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is using its sample-collection drill this week may have a salty story to tell.
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A Speedy Wireless Protocol Is Coming to Many Gadgets
Smartphones, tablets and PCs should appear this year that can send and receive data wirelessly more than 10 times faster than a Wi-Fi connection.
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Computers May Soon Know You Better Than Your Spouse
Researchers say a new program analyzes a user's likes on Facebook to characterize their personality with an accuracy rivaling that of a close family member.
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The Voice-Activated Video Game
When he was in grad school, the roboticist Daniel Wilson installed 150 binary sensors in his house.
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Nasa and Esa Celebrate 10 Years Since Titan Landing
Ten years ago, an explorer from Earth parachuted into the haze of an alien moon toward an uncertain fate.
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Colleges Rush to Create Cybersecurity Soldiers
The recent increase in computer attacks at major corporations have pushed colleges and universities to educate more cybersecurity students and professionals.
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Tropical Paradise Inspires Virtual Ecology Lab
A paradise on Earth could soon become the first ecosystem in the world to be replicated in digital form in painstaking detail, from the genes of its plants and...
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We Know How You Feel
Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history: a short film that Jim Henson produced for Ma Bell, in 1963.
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What You 'like' on Facebook Gives Away Your Personality
Be careful what you "like" on Facebook. You're opening a small window on your soul.
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License to Fly
Unmanned aerial vehicles, long used by the military, are entering the commercial sector in growing numbers. Who is going to fly them?
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