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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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Probing the Whole Internet For Weak Spots
When the FREAK encryption flaw was uncovered in early March, a team of researchers used a special tool to scan the entire Internet to identify vulnerable websites...
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'virtual Nose' May Reduce Simulator Sickness in Video Games
Vertigo and nausea cased by virtual reality games potentially could be cured with the insertion of a virtual human nose in the center of the video display.
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Computer Graphics Education, Siggraph Supporter Cunningham Dies
American computer scientist and long-time ACM SIGGRAPH volunteer Robert Stephen (Steve) Cunningham died last week following a lengthy illness.
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.
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After Snowden, the Nsa Faces Recruitment Challenge
Daniel Swann is exactly the type of person the National Security Agency would love to have working for it.
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Sap, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation Co-Founder Tschira Dies
Klaus Tschira, co-founder of German software giant SAP and creator of the foundation that helped to launch the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, died today.
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.s. Supreme Court: Gps Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment...
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A Gold Mine of Galaxy Nuggets
One telescope finds the treasure chest, and the other narrows in on the gold coins.
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The Healing Power of Your Own Medical Records
Steven Keating's doctors and medical experts view him as a citizen of the future.
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Stacking Chips Gains Momentum at Stanford
A new model of a monolithic 3D stack could boost logic, memory bandwidth.
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Dump ser Names, Says Dartmouth Research
A joint academic and industry research team has found that two-factor authentication schemes depending on user names and passwords are inherently flawed.
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Facebook AI Software Learns and Answers Questions
New artificial intelligence software developed by Facebook can process text and then answer questions about it.
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Avoiding the Crush
New crowd-modeling research describes a mathematical law that helps characterize a person's ability to move through crowds without running into another person.
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For Hardware Makers, Sharing Their Secrets Is Now Part of the Business Plan
Makers of computer, automotive, and other high-tech hardware components increasingly are adopting an open source model.
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Goodbye Gps? DARPA Prepares New Tracking Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing more advanced position- and navigation-tracking technology.
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Neuron Encyclopaedia Fires p to Reveal Brain Secrets
An ambitious plan is afoot to build the world's largest public catalogue of neuronal structures.
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Festo nleashes New Robotic Swarm of Ants and Butterflies
The family of animal robots created by German robotics company Festo is growing. As part of its Bionic Learning Network, the company has introduced two new robots...
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Hi-Tech and Big Data Offer Hope to Battered .s. Oil Industry
The tech geeks are coming to the oil industry's rescue.
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Germanwings Flight 9525, Technology, and the Question of Trust
Shortly before the dreadful crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, I happened to be reading part of "The Second Machine Age," a book by two academics at M.I.T., Erik...
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