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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Humans vs. Robots: Who Should Dominate Space Exploration?
The most recent footprints on the moon are 40 years old, and the next artificial mark on the lunar surface will probably be made by a robot’s wheels rather than...
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Check Your Mac For Malware
Mac fans recently got a little taste of what it's like to be a Windows user.
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Will We Ever Create a Perfect Lie Detector?
To create machines that can always tell when someone is lying, we need to know much more about what goes on in our brains.
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Linux Foundation Takes Linux Pulse in Progress Report
The Linux Foundation has updated its progress report on Linux kernel development for the fourth time.
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Is It Time For Javascript to Step Aside For the Next Big 'web' Thing?
At Microsoft's recent Lang.Next conference, a panel of experts discussed various aspects of programming, agreeing that JavaScript is an unforgiving language but...
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Iran Moving Ahead with Plans for National Intranet
Iran topped a recent list of repressive regimes that most aggressively restrict Internet freedom. The list, published by Reporters Without Borders, is a part of...
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Nasa Views Our Perpetually Moving Ocean
The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of...
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Ford Is Ready For the Autonomous Car. Are Drivers?
The auto industry has already developed all the technology necessary to create truly autonomous vehicles, Ford engineers claim.
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Mobile Apps Reach Internet Tipping Point
June 2011 appears to be the first time people in the U.S. spent more time online with apps than with the Web.
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Seeking Robots to Go Where First Responders Can't
In the event of another disaster at a nuclear power plant, the first responders may not be humans but robots.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask
Big data is everywhere we look these days.
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A Little Device That's Trying to Read Your Thoughts
Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black headband...
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Stanford Study to Try Cold Cash and Social Game to Relieve Rush Hour Traffic
Stanford University's Capri project aims to motivate people to avoid rush hour traffic by offering a chance at a large reward instead of a guaranteed small payout...
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Shifting Sands
Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model.
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Beware Apps Bearing Unwanted Gifts
As companies increasingly allow workers to use personal smartphones and tablets on the job, they are confronting a potential new security threat: malicious software...
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Researchers Release New Exploits to Hijack Critical Infrastructure
Researchers have released two new exploits that attack common design vulnerabilities in a computer component used to control critical infrastructure, such as refineries...
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Programming Computers to Help Computer Programmers
Computer scientists from Rice University will participate in a project to create intelligent software agents that help people write code faster and with fewer errors...
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Google's Project Glass Engineers: Who Are They?
Google’s Project Glass has put new focus on Google X, the lab at the tech giant where engineers work to develop the next big thing.
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