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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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Nasa's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza
NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets.
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The Weirdest Thing About the Apple Security Bug Is How Simple It Was
So for the past 18 months, there has been a horrific security hole in many of Apple's products that has allowed "man in the middle" attacks on supposedly secure...
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Nasa's Latest Robot: A Rolling Tangle of Rods That Can Take a Beating
Space-bound robots tend look like tanks and are about as flexible as the Tin Man after a rainstorm.
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The nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World
This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company.
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Augmented Reality Gets to Work
For Thomas Caudell, it started with a desire to make it easier to build airplanes.
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Scientists Re-Weigh the Electron, Get More Precise Mass
Ernest Rutherford, pioneer in studying the world inside atoms, famously remarked that all science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Nasa Responds to California's Evolving Drought
NASA is partnering with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to develop and apply new technology and products to better manage and monitor the state's...
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Syria War Stirs New .S. Debate on Cyberattacks
Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and theNational Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured...
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World Without Wires
Capturing electricity from ambient RF transmissions can keep low-power applications off the grid.
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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Reading Brains
The first steps have been taken toward enabling a computer to perceive one's thoughts.
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Telecom Firms Mine For Gold in Big Data Despite Privacy Concerns
Last year's revelations over the U.S. tapping of phone and internet data gave telecoms firms pause for thought over whether they should sell their "big data" for...
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Mt. Gox Disappears From Web in New Setback
Bitcoin suffered a major setback Tuesday as the website of Mt.Gox, the once dominant trading platform for the virtual currency, was all but shut down.
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The Special Effects Firms Transforming the Film Industry
If you are looking for a sure thing at this year's Oscars look no further than Gravity to win the best visual effects category.
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Marginally seful
Bitcoin, a purely digital currency, is backed by no commodity and governed by no central bank, but it exists because a small number of humans have chosen to believe...
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New Study Reveals Communications Potential of Graphene
Graphene could be used to provide secure wireless connections and improve the efficiency of communications devices.
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sing Holograms to Improve Electronic Devices
A new type of holographic memory device could provide unprecedented data storage capacity and data-processing capabilities in electronic devices.
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Willow Garage's Last Days
In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.
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