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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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Big Data, Big Blunders
Companies are finding that big data doesn't necessarily translate into easy success.
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How Big Data Is Changing the Whole Equation For Business
There's a ton of information out there. And businesses are figuring out how to put it to work.
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Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...
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A Genetic Code For Genius?
At a former paper-printing factory in Hong Kong, a 20-year-old wunderkind named Zhao Bowen has embarked on a challenging and potentially controversial quest: uncovering...
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U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms
The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...
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Sewing Machines Go High-Tech
The old-fashioned sewing machine is finally getting a modern makeover.
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Eric Schmidt nloads on China in New Book
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.
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The Trouble With Tinkering Time
It's the latest R&D trend: penciling in tinkering time on the company clock.
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Facebook on Collision Course With Google on Web Searches
After years of collecting photos and personal data from its billion-plus members, Facebook Inc. Tuesday unveiled a search tool that sifts through people's profiles—and...
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The Future of Medicine Is Now
In our era of instant gratification, the world of medicine seems like an outlier.
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They Know What You're Shopping For
Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market for a BMW.
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Heart Gadgets Test Privacy-Law Limits
The small box inside Amanda Hubbard's chest beams all kinds of data about her faulty heart to the company that makes her defibrillator implant.
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In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm
A Des Moines television station has turned off the lights on the city's Weather Beacon, igniting a tempest among residents who were raised to look downtown for...
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New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates
For more than two years, the police in San Leandro, Calif., photographed Mike Katz-Lacabe's Toyota Tercel almost weekly.
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Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't
In 2010, Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, "Mobile advertising really sucks." Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is...
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'Junk DNA' Debunked
The deepest look into the human genome so far shows it to be a richer, messier and more intriguing place than was believed just a decade ago, scientists said Wednesday...
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Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
Astronomers said Wednesday that each of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way probably has at least one companion planet, adding credence to the notion that...
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Justices Weigh Privacy vs. Gps Bugs
In a case that questions the Constitution's meaning in light of modern surveillance technology, the Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a...
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Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security For Post Office's Scribble Specialists
A man in Emden, Mo., recently mailed a letter that he had addressed, in a scribble, to somebody in "Shelhjreille, Mo." That's the way his handwriting made it...
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