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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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Companies Rush to Fix Shellshock Software Bug as Hackers Launch Thousands of Attacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week warned about the newly discovered Shellshock bug affecting a widely used Bash Unix shell.
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...
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Airlines Take the Bump Out of Turbulence
Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex.
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Drone Developers Consider Obstacles That Cannot Be Flown Around
Drone makers are eager for a new age of drone ubiquity, but several issues remain to be resolved.
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Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
Robots can outperform humans in areas such as strength and precision, but humans still are ahead of robots in the use of the senses, especially that of touch.
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Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
In factories and warehouses, robots routinely outdo humans in strength and precision.
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New Era in Safety When Cars Talk to One Another
A driver moves along in traffic, the forward view blocked by a truck or a bend in the road. Suddenly, up ahead, someone slams on the brake. Tires screech.
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Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate
For the second time in its four-year history, the Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge saw dramatic improvements in the quality of machine-vision technology...
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Rosetta Spacecraft Set For nprecedented Close Study of a Comet
After 10 years and four billion miles, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will arrive at its destination on Wednesday for the first extended, close...
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Security Secrets, Dated but Real
Was the National Cryptologic Museum designed using a code of some kind?
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Where Tech Is Taking s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.
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More Eyes on the Skies
The future, it is often said, belongs to those who plan for it.
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New Dimension in Scoreboard Watching
The seemingly endless prairie that blankets this part of the United States would seem to be an unlikely place for one of the largest makers of sports video displays...
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Real-Life Illness in a Virtual World
A 3-D animated creature, affectionately named Gerald, appears to walk in circles while floating in front of an elaborate viewer that resembles something from an...
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Intel, Qualcomm and Others Compete For 'internet of Things' Standard
If the stakes are big enough, companies will compete even for something that is supposed to be free to all comers.
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Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough
Modern computers are not unlike the looms of the industrial revolution: They follow programmed instructions to weave intricate patterns.
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As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise
From driverless cars to delivery drones, a new generation of robots is about to revolutionize the way people work, drive and shop.
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FCC Begins Investigation Into Quality of Internet Download Speeds
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is investigating deals in which some companies have agreed to pay Internet service providers for faster video delivery...
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Intelligence Too Big For a Single Machine
Ever since the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, the field has gone through cycles of boundless optimism and sobering...
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