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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Three Pilot Projects Receive Grants to Improve Online Security and Privacy
Nearly $3 million in grants will be issued to support three pilot projects as part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace program.
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How Two Men nlocked Modern Encryption
In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.
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Making Big Data Think Bigger
Big-data management will create a significant shift in the way decisions are made, as new sources of data are mined for patterns.
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'honeybee' Robots Replicate Swarm Behavior
A new open-platform system will make it more feasible and economical for researchers to replicate swarm behavior in a large number of robots.
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Quick-Change Materials Break the Silicon Speed Limit For Computers
New phase-change materials-based devices can be melted and recrystallized in as little as half a nanosecond using appropriate voltage pulses.
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What's the Next Big Tech Trend? This Federal Agency Thinks It Can Predict the Answer
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is using machine intelligence to predict what emerging technologies will become popular in the future...
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Time Dilation Measured at 40 Percent of the Speed of Light—in the Lab
Einstein is most famous for general relativity, which is really a theory of gravity.
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Nasa's Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Red Planet
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 7:24 p.m. PDT (10:24 p.m. EDT) Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now...
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Quantum Internet Could Keep S Safe from Spying Eyes
Quantum networks are quietly spreading across the world.
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Microsoft Shuts Down Silicon Valley Research Lab, Amid Broader Layoffs
Microsoft laid off another 2,100 employees on Thursday.
From ACM Opinion
Visualizing 4-Dimensional Asteroids
One of the largest treasure troves of astronomical data comes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an ongoing scan of the firmament that began 15 years ago...
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Boosting Hispanic Share of Tech Workforce Could Be Key to Closing STEM Gap
Greater Hispanic participation could play a crucial role in reaching the Obama administration's goals for increased student exposure to opportunities in STEM fields...
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Sensors Everywhere Could Mean Privacy Nowhere, Expert Says
Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford says the Internet of Things will permanently record data on people, often without their knowledge.
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Teaching Computers the Nuances of Human Conversation
Natural-language processing has become very good at recognizing human speech, but it still struggles to understand subtle nuances.
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Scientists Twist Radio Beams to Send Data
Scientists have twisted radio beams together to send data at high speeds without some of the problems experienced with optical systems.
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Mapping Big Data
Researchers are applying geographic mapping principals to large sets of unstructured data in hopes of gaining insights into the relationships between them.
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...
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Nsa Director Rogers rges Cyber-Resiliency
In his keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, NSA Director and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers, explained that the Defense...
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New Nsa-Funded Programming Language Could Close Long-Standing Security Holes
Steve McConnell, author of "Code Complete," says coding errors create software vulnerabilities that criminal hackers can use to enter and attack an enterprise. ...
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