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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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Computer Interfaces: Tech's Next Great Frontier
Consider the tongue. It's sensitive yet muscular, packed with taste buds and nerves, and without its acrobatic ability humans wouldn’t be able to eat or talk. It's...
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Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers
Google Inc. sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that...
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Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars
In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...
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Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company
Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.
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Why Are the Batteries in Boeing's 787 Burning?
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has not had a charmed birth. While some of its problems—a windshield crack, minor fuel leaks—can easily be dealt with, the issues that have...
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Hp Ceo Whitman Dubs Windows 8 a Work in Progress
There are plenty of Meg Whitman doubters out there. Some say the former EBay chief executive officer doesn't have the requisite big company experience to run a...
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Andrew Schwartz: Brain Control For Artificial Limbs
When Jan Scheuermann grasped a chocolate bar and raised it to her mouth last year, it was a neuroscience breakthrough.
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Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple Ceo Speaks
Prior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief executive...
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Desperate, Hockey Fans Root For Virtual Team
Pat Hickey, who covered his first Montreal Canadiens game in 1968 for the now-defunct Montreal Star, and who has chronicled the team's exploits over the past 22...
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Behind the Iron Dome: How Israel Stops Missiles
The success of Israel's Iron Dome in shooting down missiles fired from Gaza has a lot to do with a company you've probably never heard of: MPrest Systems.
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A Short To-Do List For Intel's Next Ceo
With Paul Otellini heading in May to the nearest 18-hole course, speculation is rampant about who will replace him.
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac
Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...
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Cyberwars Reach a New Frontier: The Airport
It sounds like an air traveler's nightmare: a sophisticated software attack that allows hackers to access internal airport computer systems and manipulate data...
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Dinner and a Robot: My Night Out With a Pr2
On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of dining at the exclusive Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Why Apple Will Turn to Holograms
Look around your office hallway or college campus and you'll see people holding interactive panes of glass.
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Apple Warms Up to Hackers, Plans Presentation at Black Hat
In the 15 years that computer hackers have gathered in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference, an event where unknowns can become stars and tech heavyweights are...
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In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again
Since the mid-1990s Liam Casey, PCH International's chief executive officer, has helped technology companies with the nastiest task in Silicon Valley: building...
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'Adaptive Radio': The Next Big Thing in Wireless?
James Collier is loping in a broad circle on the Midsummer Common in Cambridge, England, holding aloft a two-foot fiberglass antenna.
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