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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Judge: Nsa’s Collecting of Phone Records Is Probably Unconstitutional
A district court judge has ruled the U.S. National Security Agency's daily collection of virtually all Americans' phone records is almost certainly unconstitutional...
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Low-Power Tunneling Transistor For High-Performance Devices at Low Voltage
A new type of transistor could make possible fast and low-power computing devices for energy-constrained applications.
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That Thing Attached to Your Hand? It Might Be Doomed
Harvard University professor Woodward Yang says the personal technology market will experience business disruptions due to constant innovation.
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Keeping the Lights On
The Koopman Mode Analysis is an algorithm that could predict future instabilities in the power grid and make power outages a thing of the past.
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Welcome to the Super Bowl For Robots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's robotics competition is aimed at developing a robot that can function in disaster zones.
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Google Glass Update Lets Users Wink and Take Photos
Google has introduced a new feature to its Google Glass, which allows users to take a photo with a "wink of the eye."
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Are We in the Matrix? Science Looks For Signs We're Not Real
Over the years, some science fiction has popularized the notion that our world might not be what it seems—that we might all be living in the Matrix (to use perhaps...
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4 Reasons Why Apple's Ibeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design
You step inside Walmart and your shopping list is transformed into a personalized map, showing you the deals that'll appeal to you most.
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Drone Gets Its Smarts From a Smartphone
Smartphones could be the key to building low-cost, autonomous drones.
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Microsoft Joins Group Seeking to Replace Passwords
Microsoft has joined the Fast IDentity Online Alliance, which seeks to develop standards to curb corporate reliance on passwords.
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Adding MUSCLE to Multiscale Simulations
The Multiscale Coupling Library and Environment 2 project is aimed at implementing and executing multiscale models with feedback loops.
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New System Allows For High-Accuracy, Through-Wall, 3D Motion Tracking
WiTrack is a new a three-dimensional (3D) motion-tracking technology that uses radio signals to track a person through walls and other obstacles.
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Arms Deal Sets Limits on Cyber Technologies
Additions to the Wassenaar Arrangement will require technology companies to get permission from governments to sell a range of security and surveillance software...
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Judge's Word on Nsa Program Won't Be the Last
A federal judge made headlines Monday by declaring that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records is likely unconstitutional...
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Thinking in Silicon
Picture a person reading these words on a laptop in a coffee shop.
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The Startling Beauty of the Microscopic
When Robert Hooke first looked at a piece of cork under a microscope in 1665, he was looking for scientific reasons–but that didn’t keep him from seeing the intrinsic...
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Officials Say .s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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Hi-Tech Sensors Aim to Help Prevent Obesity
The European Union is funding a project that intends to use high-tech sensors to get young people to adopt healthy lifestyles.
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