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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Leap Second Is About to Rattle the Internet. But There's a Plot to Kill It
The Qantas Airways computers started crashing just after midnight.
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A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage For the Second Time Ever
Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. Unless you follow security news closely...
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Simple Pictures That State-of-the-Art AI Still Can't Recognize
Look at these black and yellow bars and tell me what you see.
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The Space Missions and Events We're Most Looking Forward to in 2015
This year will be another exciting one for space exploration.
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Our Brains Are Being 'continuously Reshaped' By Smartphone se
Extensive use of smartphone touchscreens is changing the sensory relationship between our brains and our thumbs, a study published in Current Biology has revealed...
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This Year's 8 Smartest i Design Ideas
When your family gathered for the holidays this year, did you take note of the technology everyone was using?
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Automated code or bots currently account for 56 percent of all of website visits, and a recent analysis of 20,000 websites found bot traffic can run as high as...
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Data From Our Wearables Is Now Courtroom Fodder
Courtrooms typically lag in technological innovation.
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An Interface For Tracking Botnets That's Fit For a Sci-Fi Starship
What do you get when you ask a bunch of digital artists to dream up a state-of-the-art tool for fighting cybercrime?
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The Last Astronauts to Fly to Hubble Talk About Their Wild Mission
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2009, seven astronauts strapped themselves into the space shuttle Atlantis and rocketed toward the heavens.
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A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to nderstand Emotions
Quoc Le sees the world as a series of numbers.
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Google Can Now Tell You're Not a Robot With Just One Click
When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested that a computer program’s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by making it answer...
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What's Next For the Rosetta Mission and Comet Exploration
Somewhere dark and icy on a comet 320 million miles away, the history-making, comet-bouncing Philae spacecraft is sleeping.
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What's Next For the Rosetta Mission and Comet Exploration
Somewhere dark and icy on a comet 320 million miles away, the history-making, comet-bouncing Philae spacecraft is sleeping.
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The $11m Tool That Could Help Computers Write Their Own Code
Nowadays, if you start typing something into Google, it tries to guess what you’re looking for.
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Google Developing a Pill That Would Detect Cancer and Other Diseases
Google is attempting to develop a pill that would send microscopic particles into the bloodstream in an effort to identify cancers, imminent heart attacks, and...
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This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever
As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia...
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This Incredible Oculus Sim Lets Soccer Players Relive Games
For many athletes, watching game film is a necessary chore.
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