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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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Edward Snowden, After Months of Nsa Rvelations, Says His Mission's Accomplished
The familiar voice on the hotel room phone did not waste words.
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Distant Planet Weighed sing Clues from Starlight
Researchers have weighed a planet orbiting a distant star by measuring the starlight passing through its atmosphere.
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Into the Bitcoin Mines
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.
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How Rodents and Coffee Could Shape Future Space Robots
What do artificial whiskers and coffee-filled balloons have in common?
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French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm
New method can crack certain cryptosystems far faster than earlier alternatives.
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How Do You Feel? Your Computer Knows
Interfaces can sense your mood, if you let them.
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'Peace Technologies' Enable Eyewitness Reporting When Disasters Strike
Ushahidi — or "testimony" in Swahili — has played a central role in coordinating responses to crises around the globe.
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Curiosity Team Upgrades Software, Checks Wheel Wear
The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed a software upgrade on the vehicle and is next planning a check of wear and tear on the rover's wheels...
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...
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Outdated Magnetic Strips: How U.s. Credit Card Security Lags
Criminals may have stolen information from 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target.
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Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential...
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First Completely 3D-Printed Working Loudspeaker Built
Researchers for the first time have used 3D printing to make a consumer electronic device, a loudspeaker ready for use almost as soon as it comes off the printer...
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Apps Make Sense of Social Media 'noise'
Researchers have developed two applications that could transform New Yorkers' social media activity into viable data.
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Liftoff for ESA's Billion-Star Surveyor
Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way.
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Computers Can Be Hacked Using High-Frequency Sound
Using the microphones and speakers that come standard in many of today's laptop computers and mobile devices, hackers can secretly transmit and receive data using...
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Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50
NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...
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The Geeks on the Front Lines
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...
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Gov’t Review Panel Suggests NSA Stop Holding Massive Phone Database
The panel set up by President Barack Obama to review widespread National Security Agency surveillance has produced a report in remarkably short order, and it contains...
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