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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites
Businesses should brace for a new crop of so-called "accessibility" lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access...
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Rosetta Mission Selfie at 16 Km
Using the CIVA camera on Rosetta’s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a "selfie" at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from...
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How to Make a Black Hole
On July 2, 1967, a network of satellites designed to detect tests of nuclear weapons recorded a flash of gamma rays coming from the wrong direction—outer space.
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Nasa Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced...
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Nasa Prepares its Science Fleet For Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter
NASA's extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby...
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How Jean Tirole's Work Helps Explain the Internet Economy
For anyone who has wondered how it’s possible to get so much stuff from web companies free or at too-good-to-be-true prices—whether Google searching, Facebook socializing...
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Should Industrial Robots Be Able to Hurt Their Human Coworkers?
How much should a robot be allowed to hurt its coworkers?
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Wonder Stuff: Glass That Will Store Your Info For Ever
New meticulously focused lasers are close to enabling a durable transparent material such as glass to serve as a long-term data storage solution.
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Gravity Map Uncovers Sea-Floor Surprises
s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...
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Hadoop Wins Converts Outside Silicon Valley
Two years ago, when the Detroit Crime Commission began collecting and analyzing the social media posts of suspected criminals, it found Excel wasn’t up to the task...
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Microsoft's Quantum Mechanics
In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize.
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Hackers Gather For Cyberwar in an Intense 48-Hour Sim
Locked Shields is among the world's preeminent cyber attack simulations.
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Tiny U.s. Region Is Methane 'hot Spot,' Nasa Finds
One small "hot spot" in the U.S. Southwest is responsible for producing the largest concentration of the greenhouse gas methane seen over the United States—more...
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How 3-D Printing Is Revolutionizing the Display of Big Data
One of the characteristics of our increasingly information-driven lives is the huge amounts of data being generated about everything from sporting activities and...
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5 Insights from Vint Cerf on Bitcoin, Net Neutrality and More
When Vint Cerf, often called the "father of the Internet," is speaking, it's wise to listen.
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Artificial Arms Get Closer to the Real Thing
Powered prosthetic hands and arms have advanced little in the last 50 years.
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Found: Closest Link to Eve, Our niversal Ancestor
A man who died in 315 BC in southern Africa is the closest relative yet known to humanity’s common female ancestor—mitochondrial Eve.
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A Shiny, New Graph Query System
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have developed the Graph Engine for Multithreaded Systems program, a multilayer software system for semantic graph...
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Printing Paper-Thin, Touch-Sensitive Displays
Computer scientists in Saarland University's Embodied Interaction research group say they have developed inexpensive technology that eventually could enable users...
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