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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Cheaper Joints and Digits Bring the Robot Revolution Closer
The Atlas humanoid robot, unveiled last year by Boston Dynamics, a company later acquired by Google, is a marvel.
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Spinoffs from Spyland
It takes more than a little tradecraft to spin off a startup from the National Security Agency.
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Three Questions For Leslie Lamport, Winner of Computing's Top Prize
This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...
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Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do
Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time.
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Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...
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Mathematical Proof Reveals How To Make The Internet More Earthquake-Proof
One of the common myths about the Internet is that it was originally designed during the Cold War to survive nuclear attack.
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
Igor Spetic's hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job.
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Augmented Reality Gets to Work
For Thomas Caudell, it started with a desire to make it easier to build airplanes.
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Marginally seful
Bitcoin, a purely digital currency, is backed by no commodity and governed by no central bank, but it exists because a small number of humans have chosen to believe...
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Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...
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A Robotic Hand, This Time with Feeling
A Dutch man who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident nine years ago is now able to feel different kinds of pressure on three fingers of a prosthetic, robotic...
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'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets
Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography...
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Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?
How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth?
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How a Database of the World's Knowledge Shapes Google's Future
For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years.
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Experimental Surgery Aims to Revive a Paralyzed Limb
Doctors will attempt to reanimate a patient’s paralyzed arm with a pioneering surgery that involves capturing signals from his brain and restoring movement through...
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The Hottest Technology Not on Display at CES: Smart Radio Chips
Beyond the glitz of the International Consumer Electronics Show, the wireless industry faces a fundamental problem: more features and faster data transmission are...
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How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
Google Street View has become an essential part of the online mapping experience.
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How To Track Vehicles Using Speed Data Alone
Location is a key indicator of personal travel patterns and habits.
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Thinking in Silicon
Picture a person reading these words on a laptop in a coffee shop.
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