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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Tangled Web of Shortened Links
Link-shortening services may be slowing down parts of the Internet, according to the Foundation for Research and Technology and Microsoft Research. And it might...
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Light-Emitting Rubber Could Sense Structural Damage
Researchers at Princeton University have built a new type of sensor that could help engineers quickly assess the health of a building or bridge. The sensor is...
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Extracting Business Ideas From It Logs
Many companies' IT infrastructure is automatically gathering a comprehensive picture of their whole business, in the form of everything from Web server and phone...
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Dazzling Dual-Core Phones and Tablets
New processors are a big improvement, but it will take time for apps to take advantage.
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Raising a Botnet in Captivity
Researchers created their own, imprisoned, network of zombie computers to better learn how to take down those at large on the Internet.
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.
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A Minority Report Interface For the Rest of S
Two programmers have developed Toscanini, a free gestural computer interface that provides a connection between a user's movements and digital instruments such...
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New Google Tool Makes Websites Twice as Fast
The optimization tool is the latest result of Google's speed obsession and could add to the company's bottom line.
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Supercomputer Digests Twitter in Real-Time
Specialized hardware and software could provide new insights into the social Web.
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Adding Human Intelligence to Software
MIT researchers have developed TurKit, a toolkit that enables users to write algorithms to coordinate online workers using Javascript and create human intelligence...
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Scvngr's Hunt: Retailers Who See Dollars in Game Dynamics
Can location-based games for smart phones boost foot traffic at stores?
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An Operating System to Run It All
Intel's MeeGo will let apps span tablets, phones, and TVs.
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Now Your App Knows Where You Are
Geolocation analytics could help companies to improve their apps—and make more money from them.
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Cell Phones Make a Touch Surface Smarter
A new system identifies users by their mobile phones.
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Turning Thoughts Into Words
University of Utah researchers are developing a brain-computer interface that provides a way to communicate for people who are unable to talk or move but are awake...
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Sensors Use Building's Electrical Wiring as Antenna
The trick lets sensors last five times as long between charges.
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The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution
HTML5 is changing the look of Web video, but can it edge out Flash?
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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