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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone
A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the RSA security conference showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google's Android...
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How Data Storage Cripples Mobile Apps
The latest smart phones and tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month came with an emphasis on faster processors and compatibility with faster...
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Why Viewers Could Soon Control Super Bowl Ads
During this Sunday's Super Bowl, a record five million viewers are expected to tweet or make other social media comments—not just about the game, but also about...
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Hacking Cars to Keep Them Safe
Tiffany Rad got interested in hacking cars because she wanted to drive her Land Rover off-road on rugged terrain without worrying about setting off the air bags...
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Automobile Design for the Connected Age
Car design is in a state of flux. The designer's job used to be about tail fins and chrome. Then it was all about cup holders and plastics.
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Cheating Spreads Like Infections in Online Games
Online gaming communities are investing significant resources to find and stop cheaters.
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Seven Ways to Get Yourself Hacked
In recent months, I've met at least three people who have been the victim of hackers who've taken over their Gmail accounts and sent out emails to everyone in...
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Quantum Pagerank Algorithm Outperforms Classical Version
Google's PageRank algorithm is the idea that the importance of a Webpage can be measured by the number of important papers that point toward it.
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The Cyber Security Industrial Complex
Documents point to a huge industry that provides online surveillance tools to governments and police agencies.
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Does Apple's Siri Threaten Google's Search Monopoly?
The future of search may look a little like Kirsten Goldenberg, a 14-year-old high-school student in Los Angeles. When she needs help with a homework problem,...
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Everything You Need to Know About Carrieriq
"Carrier IQ" is a company that sells software to wireless companies that reports how well networks are performing in real-time, by sending performance data from...
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How Games Are Driving a Mobile Graphics Revolution
The needs of players are helping to push advances from chip makers like Qualcomm and Nvidia.
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Gestural Interfaces Go Mainstream
Starting with the handheld controllers introduced by the Nintendo Wii console in 2006, gamers have been able to control computers by making gestures in the air...
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A New Chapter For E-Books
The problem with the Harry Potter series, for me and many others, was that it had to end.
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A Social-Media Decoder
From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its...
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Mouthpieces Gather Impact Data from Football Players
Stanford researchers think the wireless mouth guards will be better than specialized helmets at measuring head injuries.
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Giving Prosthetics a Sense of Touch
Brain-machine interfaces have made it possible for monkeys and some humans to control robotic limbs using just their thoughts. But ideally, a person using an...
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Taking Touch Beyond the Touch Screen
A tablet computer developed collaboratively by researchers at Intel, Microsoft, and the University of Washington can be controlled not only by swiping and pinching...
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Turn Your Smart Phone Into a Robot Remote Control
Android and iPhone users alike are newly empowered over robots, in two very different ways.
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