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Virtual Patient Under the Knife on Hi-Tech Operating Table
At St Mary's Hospital in London, surgeon Aimee Di Marco is about to cut up a body.
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Idf Admits to Using Cyber Space to Attack Enemies
The IDF uses cyber space to gather intelligence, attack enemies, and conduct various military operations, the military revealed on Sunday in a posting on its official...
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Freaks, Geeks, and Microsoft
When the Kinect was introduced in November 2010 as a $150 motion-control add-on to Microsoft's Xbox consoles, it drew attention from more than just video-gamers...
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Finding Good Music in Noisy Online Markets
Columbia University researchers began an online social-media marketing experiment in 2004, creating nine versions of a music download site that presented the same...
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Iran: 'flame' Virus Fight Began with Oil Attack
Computer technicians battling to contain a complex virus last month resorted to the ultimate firewall measures—cutting off Internet links to Iran’s Oil Ministry...
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Astronomers Predict Titanic Collision: Milky Way vs. Andromeda
NASA astronomers say they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky...
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With Goal-Line Tech, Soccer Tries Kicking Its Addiction to Human Error
Saturday's high-profile match between England and Belgium is the biggest test yet for a system that may finally put an end to flubbed goal-line calls, a technological...
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'part-Time' Scientists Aim to Develop Autonomous Rover to Compete For Lunar X Prize
Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering, or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots...
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Iran 'finds Fix' For Sophisticated Flame Malware
Iran says it has developed tools that can defend against the sophisticated cyber attack tool known as Flame.
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A New Home For Computer Screens: The Face
Employees at eyeglasses designer Michael Pachleitner Group have no reason to consult desktop computers, tablets or old-fashioned paper binders to find items in...
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Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World's Energy Crisis
There is one version of Craig Venter's life story where he would’ve been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher...
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21st Century Computer Architecture
The Computing Community Consortium has released "21st Century Computer Architecture," a white paper developed by members of the computer architecture research community...
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Was Flame Virus that Invaded Iran's Computer Networks Made in sa?
As the United Nations and Iran warn that the newly discovered Flame computer virus may be the most potent weapon of its kind, U.S. computer security experts tell...
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Shots Fired, Pinpointed and Argued Over
At 7:22:07 p.m. on a recent Thursday, an electronic alarm went off in the soundproof control room of a suburban office building here.
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What Fearmongers Get Wrong About Cyberwarfare
Should we worry about cyberwarfare? Judging by excessively dramatic headlines in the media, very much so. Cyberwarfare, the argument goes, might make wars easier...
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Project Finds, Purges Vulnerable Code Snippets From the Net
Digital Security has launched the Eliminate Vulnerable Code project, an initiative designed to eliminate insecure code.
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sing Machine Learning to Discover Ancient Middle East Settlements
An archeologist and a computer scientist have developed a new technique to analyze satellite images of wide swaths of land to discover ancient settlements in the...
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Researchers 'map' Android Malware Genome
North Carolina State University's Android Malware Genome Project is a malware-sharing initiative aimed at encouraging more collaboration on a new generation of...
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