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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How to Steal an AI
In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems:...
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Why Apple Can Be Forced to Turn Logs of Your Imessage Contacts Over to Police
When a user sends someone a message through Apple's iMessage feature, Apple encrypts that message between Apple devices so that only the sender and recipient can...
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The Computer Voting Revolution Is Already Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...
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Will Driverless-Car Makers Learn to Share?
Last Monday, the Obama Administration released a hundred-and-twelve-page policy tome, "Federal Automated Vehicles Policy," which, despite its sleep-inducing title...
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Mission Complete: Rosetta's Journey Ends in Daring Descent to Comet
ESA's historic Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years.
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Building a Sustainable, Intelligent, and Power-Efficient Cloud
The European Union-funded CLOUDLIGHTNING project seeks to construct a more efficient, heterogeneous, and user-centric cloud.
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Deep Learning Boosts Google Translate Tool
Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...
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Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Israeli Scientists Invent Cannon For Entangled Photon Clusters
Scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a device that can produce large clusters of entangled photons on demand.
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Hackers Infect Army of Cameras, Dvrs For Massive Internet Attacks
Attackers used an army of hijacked security cameras and video recorders to launch several massive internet attacks last week, prompting fresh concern about the...
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Farewell Rosetta: Esa Mission to End on Comet Surface
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission will come to a dramatic end on Friday,
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Catching Dust
The ancient Egyptians believed that the universe emerged from an ocean called Nun, boundless and inert.
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New 'artificial Synapses' Pave Way For Brain-Like Computers
Researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed electronic components that could lead to significant advances in brain-inspired computing.
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Computer Engineers Boost App Speeds By More Than 9%
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new method to boost the speed of computer applications by more than 9%.
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Computer Researcher to Congress: 'it's Possible' For Hackers to Alter Election
Hackers could influence the outcomes of November’s elections, a computer science professor who has demonstrated security weaknesses in voting machines told lawmakers...
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Can Electronics Replace Opioids?
Sophisticated algorithms allow electrical nerve stimulation products to quell pain, in some cases, better than drugs.
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'missing Link' Found in the Development of Bioelectronic Medicines
Researchers have demonstrated that memristors could be the missing link in the development of implants that use signals from the brain to treat medical conditions...
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S Sharpens Surveillance of Crippling Solar Storms
In the fight to protect Earth from solar storms, the battle lines are drawn in space at a point 1.6 million kilometres away.
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Comet Crash: A Guide to Rosetta's Big Finale
The Rosetta comet orbiter will meet a sticky end on 30 September, but not before a finale that should see it gather the most detailed images yet of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko—or...
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Quantum Computing a Step Closer to Reality
Australian National University researchers say they have taken another step toward creating quantum computers by stopping light in a new experiment.
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