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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 Class of Malware Attacks Specific Chips
Computer scientists reveal malware that attacks specific processors rather than the operating system that runs on them.
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Watch Where You're Going
Businesses are quietly buying mobile-phone data to discover the paths that consumers take.
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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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Bogus Grass-Roots Politics on Twitter
Data-mining techniques reveal fake Twitter accounts that give the impression of a vast political movement.
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Where Good Ideas Come From
New search technologies can identify influential documents without relying on links.
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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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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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Improving Phones Through Surveillance
Apps that track how people use their phones could help make the devices more efficient.
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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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Tapping the Powers of Persuasion
B.J. Fogg's lab at Stanford focuses on the ways technology can influence behavior.
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What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets
The company's head of analytics explains how Twitter mines the data users produce.
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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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Why Google Went Instant
The service, an engineering marvel, could boost Google's bottom line.
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Intel Puts Game Physics in the Cloud
Simulating the physics of light makes for games that better mimic the real world.
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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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Wheelchair Makes the Most of Brain Control
Artificial intelligence improves a wheelchair system that could give paralyzed people greater mobility.
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