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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Surveying the Mooc Landscape
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have released "one of the largest investigations of massive open online courses to date."
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Roll Up Your Screen and Stow It Away?
A structure based on a synthetic hybrid molecule of peptides and DNA could be used to produce thin, transparent, flexible screens.
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Wearable Technology Can Help With Public Speaking
An intelligent user interface for smart glasses developed by a team from the University of Rochester can help people with public speaking.
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A Robot Prepared For Self-Awareness
Hector is an ambulatory robot developed at Bielefeld University endowed with a rudimentary form of consciousness.
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Mini Enzyme Moves Gene Editing Closer to the Clinic
A tweak to a technique that edits DNA with pinpoint precision has boosted its ability to correct defective genes in people.
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See How Diseases Spread in These Mesmerizing Graphics
You're an H1N1 influenza virus—swine flu—just hanging out in Hanoi, Vietnam. But now it's time to spread and infect.
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Thousands of Atoms Entangled with a Single Photon
Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon.
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Study Shows People Act to Protect Privacy When Told How Often Phone Apps Share Personal Information
Smartphone users will limit the information to which their smartphone apps have access, when they learn how frequently their information is shared with these apps...
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Computer Vision and Robotics Used to Survey Cardigan Bay
Aberystwyth University computer scientists assisted marine experts in mapping and recording the sea bed.
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Novel Graph Method Detects Cyberattack Patterns in Complex Computing Networks
Scientists have developed a framework allowing users to categorize cyberattacks as graph patterns.
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ab Rolls Out New Technology to Help sers Combat Mobile Malware Attacks
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers say they have developed new techniques to prevent sophisticated malware from attacking smartphones.
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Google’s Project Zero Aims to 'improve Security Across the Internet'
Google has assembled 'the best practically-minded security researchers' to 'significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks.'
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Toolkits For the Mind
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...
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Google Lab Puts a Time Limit on Innovations
Google is facing increased scrutiny on return-on-investment from its research and development spending, prompting a leaner, faster approach.
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Nasa Releases Tool Enabling Citizen Scientists to Examine Asteroid Vesta
NASA has announced the release of Vesta Trek, a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our...
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This Air Force Tech Could've Averted the Germanwings Crash
An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...
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U.s. Establishes Sanctions Program to Combat Cyberattacks, Cyberspying
President Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing the first sanctions program to allow the administration to impose penalties on individuals overseas...
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Stanford Crypto Expert Dan Boneh Wins $175k Computer Science Award
Stanford University professor Dan Boneh's contributions to cryptography have earned him the 2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences.
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Virtual Reality Is Coming to Sex, Sports, and Facebook
Technologists predict virtual reality technology will evolve to the point that it will be embedded in practically all aspects of human activity.
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