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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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What If Web Search Results Were Based on Accuracy?
Imagine, for a moment, that every Web search gave only accurate, verified information.
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Someday Soon, You May Pay Your Restaurant Bill With A Retina Scan
The past 30 years have seen payments shift from cash and checks to debit cards and websites, and most recently to mobile phone apps, including Apple Pay and ...
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From Brain To Computer: Helping 'locked-In' Patient Get His Thoughts Out
In 2009, a man named Barry Beck suffered a series of strokes, which caused extensive damage to his right occipital lobe and to the brain stem.
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Can Google Build a Typeface to Support Every Written Language?
Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects—digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars.
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Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data to Changed Terrorist Behavior
For nearly a year, U.S. government officials have said revelations from former NSA contract worker Edward Snowden harmed national security and allowed terrorists...
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet
The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your...
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Who Has the Right to Know Where Your Phone Has Been?
You probably know, or should know, that your cellphone is tracking your location everywhere you go.
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.k. Official rges .s. Government to Adopt a Digital Core
When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day.
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Ctrl-Alt-Delete Defenders Tell Bill Gates It Wasn't A Mistake
The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons...
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Beyond The Shadows: Apple's Ios 7 Is All About The Screen
At some point in the coming weeks, users of Apple iPhones and iPads will wake up to an alert that there is a new version of the company's mobile operating system...
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How a Look at Your Gmail Reveals the Power of Metadata
Sometimes you have to give up a little privacy in order to find out how much—or how little—privacy you really have.
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Will the Nsa Rethink Its Data Collection System?
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Joel Brenner, former senior counsel at the National Security Agency, about whether the NSA can protect Americans'...
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A Day in the Life of the Relentlessly Tracked
Controversy is raging over a court order allowing the FBI and the National Security Agency to seize aggregate information of millions of Verizon customer phone...
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If Your Shrink Is a Bot, How Do You Respond?
Her hair is brown and tied back into a professional-looking ponytail.
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A New 'smart Rifle' Decides When To Shoot And Rarely Misses
A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate.
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Yes, Your New Car Has A 'black Box.' Where's The Off Switch?
If you're a vehicle owner and happen to have a car accident in the near future (we hope you don't), it's likely the crash details will be recorded.
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