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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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What If Web Search Results Were Based on Accuracy?
Imagine, for a moment, that every Web search gave only accurate, verified information.
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New Approach ses 'twisted Light' to Increase the Efficiency of Quantum Cryptography Systems
University of Rochester researchers have developed a way to transfer 2.05 bits per photon by using "twisted light."
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How DARPA Plans to Decrypt the Languages That Computers Still Don't nderstand
A U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project that will officially launch in May is an effort to aid interpreters by decrypting speech.
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Polymorphic Security Warnings More Effective Than Same, Static Ones
Polymorphic security warnings help reduce habituation in the brain, making computer users more likely to pay attention and not dismiss them outright.
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Deanonymizing Tor sers With Raptor Attacks
Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of a suite of traffic analysis attacks that deanonymize Tor users.
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Nasa Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover
After avoiding use of the rover's flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA's 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the vehicle's...
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k Mapped Out By Genetic Ancestry
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale...
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Could Analog Computing Accelerate Complex Computer Simulations?
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is exploring ways analog approaches to speed up computation of the mathematics in scientific computing.
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Stealing Data from Computers sing Heat
Air-gapped systems, which are isolated from the Internet and are not connected to other systems that are connected to the Internet, are used in situations that...
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Doing Astronomy with Neutrinos
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.
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The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was
On October 16, 2011, the early evening weather on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, was almost unspeakably gorgeous—mild as a warm bath,...
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High-Resolution 3D Scans Built From Drone Photos
Drones offer an inexpensive way to capture three-dimensional scans of buildings, terrain, and other objects.
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Satellite Imagery Can Aid Development Projects
New software can identify houses in rural villages from satellite images, potentially saving time that would otherwise be spent sending teams from village to village...
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Atlas of Thoughts
Aarhus University researchers are using computer games to help them tackle some of the fundamental problems of quantum computing.
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'smart Bandage' Detects Bedsores Before They Are Visible to Doctors
A new smart bandage uses electrical currents to detect tissue damage from pressure ulcers before they are visible and while recovery is still possible.
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Robot Model for Infant Learning Shows Bodily Posture May Affect Memory and Learning
Researchers have used robot models of infants to study how "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of physical objects, are connected to the position...
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What's the Price Now?
Dynamic pricing finds its way into a growing number of industries.
From Communications of the ACM
Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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Molecular Moonshots
Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.
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