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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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New Approach to Making Graphene Could Lead to Workable Transistors
Researchers at Stanford have used DNA as a template to synthesize ultra-thin ribbons of graphene directly on silicon wafers. This new approach could ultimately...
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Intel's Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links.
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Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People's Calls
A few changes to a standard phone can block calls and text messages intended for nearby users of the same GSM cellular network.
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Seven Over 70
For over a decade, we've celebrated innovators under the age of 35. We choose to write about the young because we want to introduce you to the most promising new...
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35 Innovators Under 35
For our 13th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs, we're presenting the stories in a new way.
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Printed Graphene Transistors Promise a Flexible Electronic Future
Flexible electronic circuits could one day utilize graphene radio-frequency electronics with sufficient speed to generate, receive, and process telecommunication...
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'spoofers' Use Fake Gps Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course
University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...
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World's Most Influential Thinkers Revealed
Who are the most influential thinkers on the planet? That's a question that you might imagine ought to be straightforward to determine, given the recent advances...
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More Connected Homes, More Problems
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...
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Military Considers Sharing Radar Frequencies With Wireless Networks
U.S. Navy researchers want to share rarely used wireless military frequencies so that new services can be developed.
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The Future of Graphics and Gaming
See the best new ideas in computer graphics and interaction from last week’s Siggraph conference.
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The Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
Raymond Laflamme can't yet sell you a quantum computer. But he'll sell you a $13,000 logic board for measuring entangled photons.
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Touch Screen Ids sers via Fingerprints
Tabletop computers have not exactly taken the world by storm, as some predicted they would.
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...
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Human Motion Will Power the Internet of Things, Say Energy Harvesting Engineers
The Internet of Things is the imagined network of data links that will emerge when everyday objects are fitted with tiny identifying devices.
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The Internet of Cars Is Approaching a Crossroads
The phrase "vehicle-to-vehicle communications" might currently mean little more than a few choice words hurled through an open car window.
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Physicists Discover the Secret of Quantum Remote Control
Teleportation is one of the more extraordinary phenomena in the quantum world.
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The Immortal Life of the Enron E-Mails
Former Enron executive Vincent Kaminski is a modest, semi-retired business school professor from Houston who recently wrote a 960-page book explaining the fundamentals...
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Siri’s Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative
SRI International has created a predictive assistant called Bright that reduces cognitive overload by providing specific information at the right time.
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