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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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Leading Through Impact
Harvard University's Office of Technology Development helped researchers launch a machine-learning startup that wound up being acquired by Twitter.
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Cybersecurity Experts Debate Proper Response to Terrorism
Recent terror attacks are spurring calls for greater government access to electronic communications, but privacy advocates and cybersecurity experts disagree.
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2015 Was the Best Year Ever in Space
With 2015 now behind us, what truly stands out?
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The New Way Police Are Surveilling You: Calculating Your Threat 'score'
While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect's...
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Insurers Brace For the Self-Driving Future and Fewer Accidents
As autonomous driving technology advances, perhaps the most notable benefit is the promise of a striking reduction in accidents.
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New Digital Tools Could Help Speed Up Cultural Heritage Work
The European Union-funded PRESIOUS project is developing software tools intended to facilitate the work of archaeologists via computer simulations.
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.s. Meets Tech Leaders, Forms Task Force to Fight Online Militants
The Obama administration on Friday sent its top national security officials to meet tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley and announced a new task force to counter...
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MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
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Rebooted Kepler Spacecraft Hauls in the Planets
In the second phase of its life as a planet hunter, NASA's Kepler spacecraft is raking in exoplanet discoveries that are surprisingly different from those found...
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Meet the Woman Leading the Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer
The University of New South Wales in Australia continues to make strides in developing the world's first practical quantum computer.
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The 'internet of Touch' Will Require a Network Revolution
Researchers are proposing changes in the way haptic information is transmitted and received.
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Bug Eyes: Tiny Glasses Confirm 3D Vision in Insects
Newcastle University researchers have found the praying mantis uses stereopsis, or three-dimensional perception, for hunting.
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What We've Learned About Pluto So Far
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft concluded its tightly choreographed flyby of Pluto, back in July, with a pirouette, pointing its antenna toward Earth.
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What Does the Internet Actually Look Like?
It’s difficult to define "the cloud." Even more difficult, perhaps, is photographing it. But that's precisely what Peter Garritano set out to do with his photoThe...
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In 2016, Terror Suspects and 7-Eleven Thieves May Bring Surveillance to Supreme Court
It has now been 2.5 years since the first Snowden revelations were published. And in 2015, government surveillance marched on in both large (the National Security...
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Neil Gershenfeld and the Spread of Fab Labs
Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms, discusses the growth and impact of the Fab Lab project.
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Nanowalls For Smartphones
Researchers have used three-dimensional print technology to create a transparent electrode in the form of a grid made of gold or silver "nanowalls" on a glass surface...
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'mind Reading' Computer Deciphers Words From Brainwaves
Kyushu Institute of Technology researchers have developed a computer that can read information from brainwaves and decipher words before they are spoken.
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Science Can Tell If North Korea's Test Was Really an H-Bomb
It was the whomp felt 'round the world.
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