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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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How the Audacious Pentagon Agency That Invented the Internet Is Now Trying to Save It
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is rethinking the underlying mechanisms of cybersecurity to focus on preventive measures instead of simply breach...
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Here Are the 12 Most Influential Programmers Working Today
The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum—someone, somewhere, wrote the code.
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IBM Researchers Try to Measure Employee Well-Being Using Technology
Researchers at IBM and the Delft University of Technology are working to develop computer systems that could help foster well-being among employees. The project...
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Project Jupyter Gets $6M to Expand Collaborative Data-Science Software
An open source platform known as Project Jupyter will receive $6 million in grants over three years to strengthen the tool's capabilities for collaborative data...
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There May Be Infinite niverses—and Infinite Versions of You
In another universe you might have become the president of Micronesia. Or a pauper, subsisting on ketchup.
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.
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Nasa's New Horizons: A 'heart' from Pluto as Flyby Begins
After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it's show time for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations...
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Manhattan Da: Iphone Crypto Locked Out Cops 74 Time
The debate over encryption and backdoors for law enforcement has long had a surplus of opinions and a deficit of data.
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Survey: Moocs Supplement Traditional Higher Ed
Youngsters, retirees, and other non-traditional student populations have embraced massive open online courses (MOOCs), according to a new survey. Students reported...
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Computer Scientist Helps Researchers Track Honey Bee Health
Computer science has played a key role in an initiative to track the health of honeybees across the U.S. The Bee Informed Partnership, a project involving scientists...
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Tiny Wires Could Provide a Big Energy Boost
MIT researchers have found a new approach to deliver the short but intense bursts of power needed by wearable electronic devices for health and fitness monitoring...
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Microsoft Offers Researchers $500k to Work on Hololens
Microsoft is looking for new ideas on potential uses for its HoloLens augmented reality headgear. The company recently issued a request for proposals seeking projects...
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IBM Discloses Working Version of a Much Higher-Capacity Chip
IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips, with roughly four times the capacity of today's most powerful chips.
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Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled
Products like the Oculus Rift and Google Glass could help ameliorate physical and perceptual impairments.
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The 24/7 Search For Killer Quakes
At 17 minutes past midnight on Saturday 25 April, Rob Sanders's computer started chiming with alerts.
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Introducing the Astronaut Clothing of the Future
A crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is performing routine maintenance.
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FBI Chief Warns Encryption Emboldens Would-Be Islamic State Attackers
Barring law enforcement authorities' access to encrypted communications would make it easier for Islamic State sympathizers to attack the United States, FBI Chief...
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Elon Musk Gives $10 Million in Grants to Study Safe AI
Inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk has given the Future of Life Institute $10 million to be distributed as 37 grants to research projects designed to keep artificial...
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Bbc Offers Free Tiny Computers to .k. Students
The BBC is partnering with more than two dozen companies and organizations to provide at least 1 million British school children with a free pocket-sized computer...
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