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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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How the Dark Web Spurs a Spying 'arms Race'
It's a technological arms race, pure and simple.
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Ted 2015: Google Boss Wants Self-Drive Cars 'for Son'
The director of Google's self-driving car project says he wants self-driving cars to be standard on roads within five years.
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Is Your Toaster a Silent Recruit in a 'thingbot' Army?
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.
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Time Lords: The Clocks That Rule Our World
Time is money—and never was this clearer than at 09:59:59.985 Eastern Time, on 3 June 2013.
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Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'
Former ACM president Vint Cerf worries a forthcoming "digital Dark Age" will leave behind mountains of data people will no longer be able to access.
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Taking the Robot Dog For a Walk
It's a video which is bound to go viral. Spot sets off down an office corridor, and then out into the open air.
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The Invisible Network That Keeps the World Running
It’s been just over 45 years since the Apollo Moon landings, and some would have it that we are failing to build big anymore; that we've since become too fascinated...
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Not in Front of the Telly: Warning Over 'listening' Tv
Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.
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Lost Chunk of Pioneering EDSAC Computer Found
An original part of one of the United Kingdom's pioneering computers has been donated to a project that is working to rebuild the machine.
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AI Will Not Kill s, Says Microsoft Research Chief
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.
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Back-p Brains: The Era of Digital Immortality
A few months before she died, my grandmother made a decision.
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The Daunting Challenge of Reporting on Cyberwar
The US and UK are soon to take part in cyber war games, testing each other out for when the inevitable real cyberwar kicks off.
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Can the Government Ban Encryption?
Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers...
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Are These the Five Craziest Space Missions?
The landing of the Philae Lander—on a comet travelling at 135,000km/h (84,000mph)—has been hailed as the start of a new chapter in space exploration.
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Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking says he worries about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
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Can Internet Companies Monitor Terrorists?
Facebook is saying little apart from the fact that "we do not allow terrorist content on the site and take steps to prevent people from using our service for these...
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Museum Switches on Historic Computer
A project to recreate one of Britain's pioneering computers has reached a key milestone.
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Rosetta: Concerns For Comet Lander After neven Landing
The lander bounced twice, initially about 1km back out into space, before settling in the shadow of a cliff, 1km from its intended target site.
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