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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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It's Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (and Not Just For the Reasons You Think)
Emergency "mesh" networks that wirelessly connect computers and devices directly to each other have existed for some time and offer numerous benefits.
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Out in the Open: Ex-Google Ad Man Saves You From Ad Hell
The World Privacy Forum recently told the U.S. Congress the data brokerage industry is making millions of dollars selling lists of all kinds of data to marketers...
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Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential...
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4 Reasons Why Apple's Ibeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design
You step inside Walmart and your shopping list is transformed into a personalized map, showing you the deals that'll appeal to you most.
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Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.
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The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true.
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Falling in Love with AI Virtual Assistants: A Creepy Love Affair Nearer Than You Think
"I've never loved anyone the way I've loved you," swoons Joaquin Phoenix, in the movie Her.
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Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system—a...
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A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
It's a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?
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Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data
When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological...
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Why Facebook Is Teaching Its Machines to Think Like Humans
Facebook is turning to deep learning to teach computers to more closely imitate the human brain, with the goal of gaining greater insight into individual users. ...
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Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required For Gps Trackers
An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause...
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...
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Predicting the Future Could Improve Remote-Control of Space Robots
A new system could make robotic space exploration faster and more efficient by predicting the robot's future movements.
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The Future of Prosthetics Could Be This Brain-Controlled Bionic Leg
About a year ago, Zac Vawter climbed all 103 flights of stairs of the Willis Tower in Chicago.
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Big Data Is Too Big For Scientists to Handle Alone
Experts say big data can only be leveraged in future scientific endeavors with a combination of science, statistics, computers, mathematics, and leadership.
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Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone interstellar.
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