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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...
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Behind the Scenes of Latin America's Internet 'brain'
It may be one of central Miami's most recognisable buildings, yet only a few people know what goes on inside the sturdy concrete block with massive spheres on its...
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
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Eric Schmidt nloads on China in New Book
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.
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Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?
How much has mapping software changed your life?
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Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period.
Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world's most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server...
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The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins
The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple's Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite.
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Has Chip and Pin Had Its Day?
Go to a cash machine in Japan or Poland and there's a good chance you'll find a finger-sized scanner next to the keypad.
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How Google's Jeff Dean Became the Chuck Norris of the Internet
"The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics."—Jeff Dean Facts
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How Vegas Casinos Wage War on Cheating
"I think most people feel that if you can find a way to beat the casino, more power to you," says Arnold Synder, his eyes, those telltale features, hidden behind...
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Google to sers: Here's How We Deal with Requests For Your Information
What happens if the local police, the FBI or any government agency asks Google for information about your Gmail or YouTube account?
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Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company
Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.
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U.s. Homeland Chief: Cyber 9/11 Could Happen 'imminently'
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned on Thursday that a major cyber attack is a looming threat and could have the same sort of impact as last year's...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson: Science Funding Can 'guarantee Your Economic Future'
Neil deGrasse Tyson came to Washington on Wednesday to deliver the science-specific version of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address.
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
At year's end, IBM selects a new innovation that has the potential to change the world.
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Google Report Reveals Continued Rise in .S. Government Requests for Data
Google has revealed the full scale of the U.S. government's use of controversial legislation that bypasses judicial approval to access the online information of...
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Applying Search Engine Techniques to Physics Data, Yandex Partners p with Cern
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is perhaps best-known for two things: (probably) locating the elusive Higgs Boson, and being the birthplace...
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