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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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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...
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Tech Companies Are Slamming a Proposed k Terrorism Law. Here's Why.
The world's biggest tech firms—including Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo—are pressing for changes to a proposed British law aimed at expanding the government's electronic...
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Cassini Completes Final Close Enceladus Flyby
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting data and images from the mission's final close flyby of Saturn's active moon Enceladus. Cassini passed Enceladus...
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Better Memory
Advances in non-volatile memory are changing the face of computing and ushering in a new era of efficiencies.
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Preserving the Internet
Is the Internet ephemeral by its nature, or can it be archived?
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The rban, Infrastructural Geography of 'the Cloud'
The relationship between data to space extends beyond the network equipment, services, and mobile devices that transmit and present information to a user.
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A Master Algorithm Lets Robots Teach Themselves to Perform Complex Tasks
For all the talk of machines becoming intelligent, getting a sophisticated robot to do anything complex, like grabbing a heavy object and moving it from one place...
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The First Person to Hack the Iphone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on.
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Rocks Rich in Silica Present Puzzles For Mars Rover Team
In detective stories, as the plot thickens, an unexpected clue often delivers more questions than answers.
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Facewatch 'thief Recognition' Cctv on Trial in k Stores
Until now, Facewatch has provided local groups of businesses with a way to share their CCTV images of shoplifters and other potential offenders.
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European Satellites: How Islamic State Takes Its Terror To the Web
No terror organization uses the Internet as successfully when it comes to marketing itself and recruiting supporters as Islamic State (IS) does. But how is it able...
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Cassini Closes in on Enceladus, One Last Time
A thrilling chapter in the exploration of the solar system will soon conclude, as NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft makes its final close flyby of the ocean...
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Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a Mysterious New Particle
Does the Higgs boson have a cousin?
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Facedirector Software Generates Desired Performances in Post-Production, Avoiding Reshoots
New software could mean film directors will no longer need to reshoot crucial scenes dozens of times until they are satisfied.
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China's Internet Forum May Provide a Peek at Its Cyber-Ambitions
Heads of state, including the prime ministers of Pakistan and Russia, and major technology firms will gather Wednesday in Wuzhen, a picturesque little town of canals...
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Two Atoms Make Quantum Memory, Processing Gate, and Test of Entanglement
Quantum systems are inherently fragile as any interactions with the outside world can change their state.
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Do Computers Need Pressure-Sensing Screens?
The computer mouse, when it first went mainstream, was awkward to describe but easy to use.
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The Secret History of World War Ii-Era Drones
Drones are the hallmark of tech-y modern warfare, but weapons piloted from afar have been around for more than a century.
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5 Amazing and Alarming Things That May Be Done with Your Dna
"You're a male, you're 34-years-old and your 5-foot-10 1/2 inches tall." That's a prediction that Craig Venter, long a pioneer on the frontier of genomics, offered...
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