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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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Send in the Bots
Scientists are using autonomous robots to make discoveries about animal behavior and cognition, some of which would be impossible using live animals.
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Sc13 Supercomputing Show Must Go On, Government Shutdown or Not
SC13 will hold its annual Supercomputing Conference the week of November 17 in Denver as scheduled, regardless of the status of the U.S. government shutdown.
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Disney Develops Algorithm For Rendering 3D Tactile Features on Touch Surfaces
Disney researchers have developed an algorithm for tactile rendering of three-dimensional features and textures.
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Big Data Is Too Big For Scientists to Handle Alone
Experts say big data can only be leveraged in future scientific endeavors with a combination of science, statistics, computers, mathematics, and leadership.
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In Digital Era, What Does 'watching Tv' Even Mean?
We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.
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The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Simon DeDeo, a research fellow in applied mathematics and complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute, had a problem.
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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Silk Road Bust Hints at Fbi's New Cybercrime Powers
The biggest drug marketplace on the Internet has been busted.
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Nsf Awards $12 Million to Sdsc to Deploy Comet Supercomputer
Comet, a supercomputer awaiting deployment, is designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity.
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Google Debuts Google Web Designer Beta For Html5 Creativity
Google has released the beta version of a tool designed to help Web developers create interactive and vibrant Internet content using HTML5, Google Web Designer...
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DARPA Adds $15.5 Million to Help Take Semiconductors Beyond Moore's Law
Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp. has received $15.5 million to further development of future semiconductor technology.
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Stanford Algorithm Analyzes Sentence Sentiment, Advances Machine Learning
Neural Analysis of Sentiment is software that analyzes sentences from movie reviews and rates the sentiments they express on a five-point scale.
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Making Artificial Intelligence More Human
The MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines has launched an initiative to develop intelligence incorporating the ability to intuit basic concepts of psychology...
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Spy Agencies Exploit It Vulnerabilities
The U.K.'s Government Communications Headquarters surveillance group and the U.S. National Security Agency use hacking techniques to eavesdrop on Internet users...
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How Gaming Tech Is Making For Better Interplanetary Exploration
"My dream in this area is that, someday, when we put human boots on the surface of Mars, I want there to be millions of people in attendance for that event," Jeff...
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Graphene: 'miracle Material' Will Be in Your Home Sooner Than You Think
Just under 10 years ago, the Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim stumbled across a substance that would revolutionize the way we understand matter and win him and...
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.s. Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts to Break Tor Anonymity Network
The National Security Agency may have attempted to penetrate and compromise a widely used network designed to protect the anonymity of its users, but it was only...
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New Kind of Microscope Uses Neutrons
Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA, have developed a new concept for a microscope that would use neutrons—subatomic particles with no electrical...
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