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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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The Economic Payoff of Federally Funded IT Research
How basic IT research has yielded huge commercial benefits.
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Autonomous Shipping Charts Its Course
The maritime industry wades into digitalization; will it float?
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Using Crowdsourced Computing to Fight the Coronavirus
Folding@Home is more powerful than the world’s top seven supercomputers combined.
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The Evolution of Brick and Mortar
New technologies are transforming the future of in-person retail.
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COBOL Programmers are Back In Demand. Seriously.
States race to upgrade their legacy mainframe systems to meet the cascade of unemployment claims caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Shuttering of Corporate Datacenters
Datacenters are being decommissioned at a rapid pace.
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Head in the Clouds
Brain-computer interfaces, like so much else, may be migrating to the cloud.
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Hacking the Body Electric
Electroceuticals use electricity, rather than chemicals, to treat the body's ills.
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An Emerging Threat, Hiding in Plain Sight
Steganography hides information, sometimes right before your eyes.
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Crawling Inside Hard Drives
Digital forensics seeks evidence in stored digital information; it's not as easy as it sounds.
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Hijacking the CryptoMine
The lure of easy money leads to explosive growth in cryptojacking.
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Pressure Building for Rules of Engagement for Cyberwarfare
The call for an international legal framework governing cyberwarfare is gaining momentum.
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Into the Breach
Cyber ratings firms help companies evaluate the risks of doing business.
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Getting Past The Ad Blockers
Online consumers use software to block ads; online advertisers can pay to be whitelisted by some ad-blocking software.
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You Can Hear the Future Calling
Hearables are not your father’s earphones, limited to taking calls and listening to music.
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Speeding Delivery By 3D-Printing Products
Online mega-retailer Amazon appears to be exploring the use of 3D printing to get products to consumers faster.
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Anticipating Computational Fashion
Wearable technologies are poised to move beyond the wrist.
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