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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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6 nexpected Places Hackers Can Find Your Information
Sharing facts like your birthday or your parents' names can open you up to identity theft.
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These Hidden Women Helped Invent Chaos Theory
New material provides a fuller, fairer account of the birth of chaos.
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5G Networks Could Throw Weather Forecasting Into Chaos
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are concerned that 5G wireless phones could interfere with weather forecasts.
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GM Gives All Its Vehicles a New Soul
A new electronic platform from General Motors is envisioned as the linchpin of the automaker's future, enabling the function of almost all its cars' digital systems...
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Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets From Millions of PCs
Intel and a coalition of security researchers have identified a new vulnerability in Intel's chips which could permit the theft of sensitive data from central processing...
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Nike Wants Your Sneakers to Fit Better, So It's sing AR
Starting in July, customers in any Nike retail store in the U.S. can have their feet scanned to learn exactly what shoe size they need, in any style Nike makes....
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A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle
A self-taught Belgian programmer has solved a puzzle required to open a 1999 time capsule at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Forget about Artificial Intelligence, Extended Intelligence is the Future
We should challenge the cult of Singularity. Artificial Intelligence won't take over the world.
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Cracking the Crypto War
Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: it satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
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DJs of the Future Don't Spin Records--They Write Code
Artists in the underground electronic music culture are performing live-coding shows or "algoraves," in which they program software algorithms to create new forms...
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The ncanny Valley Nobody's Talking About: Eerie Robot Voices
Call it the Great Convergence of Creepiness. The first bit, the uncanny valley, we're all familiar with by now: If a humanoid robot looks super realistic, but not...
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The World Wide Web Turns 30. Where Does It Go From Here?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, on his invention of the World Wide Web in 1989.
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NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source
The U.S. National Security Agency has chosen to open source the cybersecurity tool Ghidra, a reverse-engineering platform that takes "compiled" software and "decompiles"...
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How I Became a Robot in London, From 5,000 Miles Away
I am but a babe, exploring the world for the first time. Wearing a computerized glove, I reach forward in pursuit of a little toy basketball.
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How Facebook Has Changed Computing
Because of Facebook's openness, many of its technologies have become industry standards.
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Your Old Tweets Give Away More Location Data Than You Think
An international team of researchers has developed an algorithm that uses Twitter to automatically predict a user's location within minutes.
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How Russian Trolls sed Meme Warfare to Divide America
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...
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Learn to Fly Sikorsky's New Helicopter in Just 45 Minutes
A specially equipped Sikorsky helicopter can be controlled through a handheld tablet, and learning to pilot it can take as little as 45 minutes.
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Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars.
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