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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Data Center Innovation: New Ways to Save Energy
The High Tech and Industrial Systems Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, recently designated the DoE Center of Expertise for energy efficiency in data...
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Disney Research Leads Development of Tool to Design Inflatable Characters and Structures
Researchers at Columbia University, ETH Zurich, and Disney say they have developed an interactive computational tool that enables even non-experts to create intricate...
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The Internet's Vulnerable Backbone
A criminal redirected the online activities of bitcoin mining groups and stole at least $83,000 worth in bitcoins over four months, according to a new report, which...
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The Best 'low-Tech' Spycraft Tricks
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about the US National Security Agency’s activities around the globe, authorities in Russia and Germany declared they...
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Multiple avs Perform Autonomous Formation Flight
Research conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Institute could help improve the capabilities of autonomous systems collaborating as teams, thereby...
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Face Recognition System Achieves 99.15 Percent Accuracy
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong say they have developed the most accurate facial-recognition system in the world, featuring an accuracy rating...
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The Most Wanted Man in the World
The message arrives on my "clean machine," a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package.
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Do Quantum Computers Threaten Global Encryption Systems?
Make a mobile phone call and encryption is there to stop eavesdroppers listening in.
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'ambiguous' Warfare Buys Upgrade Time For Russia's Military
Unmarked Russian soldiers who seized Ukraine's Crimea region earlier this year gave every appearance of military professionals well equipped with modern body armor...
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
Researchers say there needs to be ethical guidelines in place for social science studies that use personal data collected by various social media websites.
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Energy Harvested From Body, Environment Could Power Wearables, IoT Devices
Low-power wearable devices may soon stop using batteries and start drawing energy generated by body heat and movement, as well as ambient energy from the environment...
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No Boys Allowed: Girls Who Code Takes on Gender Gap
The nonprofit Girls Who Code's summer program has grown from 20 girls in one classroom in 2012 to 380 girls in classrooms at 16 companies across the country.
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It Jobs: Which States Show Most Growth?
Dice's August jobs report found Texas leads in technology job growth in 2014 based on new hiring data, followed by Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington...
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Pairing Old Technologies With New For Next Generation Electronic Devices
University College London researchers say they have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons...
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...
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Okcupid's Co-Founder on Experiments, Data Science and the Myth of the 'unicorn'
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...
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A Grand Vision For the Impossible
Subhash Khot's bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limitations of computation.
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Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.
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Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style
Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.
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