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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.
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'space Lawyers' Help Startups Navigate the Final Legal Frontier
When Sagi Kfir meets people and tells them he is a "space attorney," they usually think he has a strange way of saying he is in real estate.
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Will Smart Machines Make S Stupid? AI Experts Weigh In
Society stands at a crossroads of artificial intelligence: We can design computers that sharpen our wits or we can let our machines turn us into ignoramuses.
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Germany Moves Away From .s.-Dominated Iot Standards Groups
Germany's main telco, tech and manufacturing companies have formed an alliance to make sure that when devices do start speaking to each other over the Internet...
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Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses
Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.
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Chip Makers Push New Senses For Smartphones–mobile World
Smartphones are about to get smarter, chip makers say, exploiting technologies that recognize people, objects and sounds to boost security and take helpful actions...
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Invasion of the Friendly Movie Robots
Robots are becoming more of a reality in everyday life, and movies have started to overhaul their depiction of them. They're gentler, friendlier, and often better...
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What Clever Robots Mean For Jobs
For a long time economists maintained that new technology would not result in a net loss of jobs, but some economists now think the situation is more nuanced than...
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White House Names Nation's First Chief Data Scientist
Taking a page from Silicon Valley's playbook, the White House said on Wednesday it had appointed the nation's first chief data scientist.
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Raspberry Pi 2 Review: A $35 Computer Can Do a Heck of a Lot
Our computers have become too easy to use.
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In Image-Guided Operating Suites, Surgeons See Real-Time Mri, Ct Scans
Surgeons sometimes fly blind when operating on hard-to-reach anatomical parts or hard-to-see conditions.
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In Japan, Dog Owners Feel Abandoned as Sony Stops Supporting 'aibo'
Yahui and Tatsuo Matsui met because of their dogs, Ai and Doggy.
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J. Craig Venter on Dna and Life's Mysteries
J. Craig Venter is in the life business.
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The Technology that nmasks Your Hidden Emotion
Paul Ekman, perhaps the world's most famous face reader, fears he has created a monster.
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Time to Change Global Clock Management? It's nder Debate
Does anybody really know what time it is?
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IBM Wins Most Patents—again—but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings
There was little change among the largest recipients of U.S. patents in 2014. But two big Silicon Valley names—Google and Apple—continued climbing the charts.
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'Internet of Things' Poses Risks, FTC Chairwoman Warns
By 2015, the world will have 25 billion smart thermostats, fitness bands, and other Internet-connected, data-spewing devices, according to the Federal Trade Commission...
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Google Seeks Partners For Self-Driving Car
Google is seeking auto industry partners in its efforts to produce a fully autonomous car.
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Sony Made It Easy, but Any of S Could Get Hacked
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...
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