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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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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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Someone's Watching You
FX Labs has developed myUnity, a communications application that can tell users if a coworker is busy at the desk, talking on the phone, or has left the building...
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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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Bendable Memory Made from Nanowire Transistors
A new type of device could ultimately hold more data than flash memory.
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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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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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Sensors Use Building's Electrical Wiring as Antenna
The trick lets sensors last five times as long between charges.
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Why Google Went Instant
The service, an engineering marvel, could boost Google's bottom line.
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Anticensorship Tool Proves Too Good to Be True
Experts warn that the software could identify those it claims to protect.
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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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Why Isn't the Price of Broadband Obeying Moore's Law?
A new index from researchers at Northwestern University shows that the explosive pace in adopting broadband Internet access since 2004 has not led to a decline...
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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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Searching For Fun
Research suggests that search engines could tap into users' need to be entertained.
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