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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Automatic Programming Makes Swarm Robots Safer and More Reliable
An automated programming method previously used in manufacturing could make swarm robots more user-friendly and more reliable.
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Computers Can Tell If You're Bored, Shows New Bsms Study
University of Sussex researchers have found computers can read a user's body language to tell whether they are bored or interested in what is on the screen.
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Internet2 at 20: Alive and Kicking
Nearly two decades since its launch, Internet2 continues to run on U.S. university campuses.
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Building Living, Breathing Supercomputers
McGill University researchers says the substance that provides energy to human cells also could be used to power the next generation of supercomputers.
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Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth Is Special After All
More than 400 years ago Renaissance scientist Nicolaus Copernicus reduced us to near nothingness by showing that our planet is not the center of the solar system...
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Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons
The report warns about a range of real-world risks associated with weapons systems that are completely autonomous.
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Wesley A. Clark, Made Computing Personal, Dies at 88
Clark’s computer designs built a bridge from the era of mainframe systems to personal computers.
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Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World
Americans inhabit an intricately mapped world.
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Will the Nsa Finally Build Its Superconducting Spy Computer?
The U.S. National Security Agency vision of a superconducting supercomputer may leap forward with the Cryogenic Computing Complexity program.
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Chameleon Adapts to Secure the Cloud
A minority-led group of researchers is looking to the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded Chameleon cloud platform as a tool for developing cyberattack prevention...
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IBM Watson Machine Learns the Art of Writing a Good Headline
The latest milestone for IBM researchers in their development of the Watson platform is the creation of a system for automatically abstracting documents.
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Apple Encryption Stand Highlights Mobile Operators' Dilemma
Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward questions...
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The Secret History of America's Cyber War
Two months earlier, Edward Snowden, a contractor with the National Security Agency, had leaked tens of thousands of highly classified documents, revealing that...
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Peter Naur: 1928-2016
Peter Naur, a Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, died recently after a brief illness.
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Should Self-Driving Cars Have Drivers Ready to Take Over?
The day when you'll be chauffeured to work by your car may not be far off.
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Apple Is Said to Be Trying to Make It Harder to Hack Iphone
Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar...
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Autonomous Vehicle Technology Will Keep Soldiers Safer on Air, Land, Sea
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute researchers are developing autonomous warfare technology, including an unmanned air vehicle and an unmanned ground vehicle.
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What Role Should Silicon Valley Play in Fighting Terrorism?
On Friday, January 8, several high-level officials from the Obama administration—including the attorney general, the White House chief of staff, and the directors...
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Should You Edit Your Children's Genes?
Ruthie Weiss's basketball team seemed to be minutes away from its fourth straight loss.
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