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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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Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality
"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California.
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Engineering the Perfect Baby
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.
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To Bring Virtual Reality to Market, Furious Efforts to Solve Nausea
Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality, which promises to immerse people in 3-D games and video.
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Ncsa Part of Team Developing Tools to Help Governments Deal With Disasters
A $20-million grant is aimed at developing computer tools to help local governments prepare for extreme weather and recover quickly in the aftermath of natural...
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
John is in the playground. Bob is in the office. Where is John?
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...
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'freak' Flaw Undermines Security For Apple and Google Users, Researchers Discover
Companies and government agencies are scrambling to correct a major security flaw revealed this week.
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New App Monitors Net Neutrality in Mobile Networks
Northeastern University researchers have developed an app for detecting traffic differentiation in mobile networks.
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Google Wants to Rank Websites Based on Facts Not Links
The internet is stuffed with garbage.
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Chip Makers Push New Senses For Smartphones–mobile World
Smartphones are about to get smarter, chip makers say, exploiting technologies that recognize people, objects and sounds to boost security and take helpful actions...
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7 Things Net Neutrality Won't Do
When it comes to the new Net neutrality rules adopted last week by the Federal Communications Commission, people think either that US regulators have liberated...
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Megan Smith Wants to 'debug' Tech's Diversity Problem
The lack of representation of women and minorities in the U.S. technology sector is a problem Obama administration chief technology officer Megan Smith wants to...
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Pentagon Shops in Silicon Valley For Game Changers
A small group of high-ranking Pentagon officials made a quiet visit to Silicon Valley in December to solicit national security ideas from start-up firms with little...
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China Draft Counterterror Law Strikes Fear in Foreign Tech Firms
China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security "backdoors", a potential...
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How to Sabotage Encryption Software (and Not Get Caught)
In the field of cryptography, a secretly planted "backdoor" that allows eavesdropping on communications is usually a subject of paranoia and dread.
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.n. Report Focuses on Modern Technology to Improve Peacekeeping Missions
A new report says United Nations peacekeeping missions should use technology to establish situational awareness, carry out mandates, and protect themselves.
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Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting...
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Surveillance-Based Manipulation: How Facebook or Google Could Tilt Elections
Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.
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