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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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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.
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The Hard Disk of the Future Will Be Ten Thousand Times Faster, Researchers Say
Think your computer is pretty slow?
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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As Tech Firms Track Your Location, Advertisers Zero In For the Sale
Mapping technology advancements from Google Inc and Facebook Inc that provide more precise user location data than ever before are starting to dent advertisers'...
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Transparent Paper Produces Power With Just a Touch
A new transparent-paper device can generate electrical power from a user's touch (ACS Nano 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02414).
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CMU Leads Google Expedition to Create Technology For 'internet of Things'
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Google are collaborating to turn the college campus into a living laboratory.
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The Icy Mountains of Pluto
New close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the...
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Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze
In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...
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The Camera Behind the New Pluto Photos
For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space.
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...
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Virtual Medical Training: Don’t Call It Virtual Reality
Medical professionals prefer to reference the technology with terms that are "less sci-fi."
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Nasa's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.
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How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate
NASA's New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—its size.
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An Algorithmic Sense of Humor? Not Yet.
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...
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The Social Security Number's Insecurities
In both the Anthem insurance hack and the two Office of Personnel Management hacks this year, attackers gained access to Social Security numbers, affecting 80 million...
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Collaborative Photography App Allows Smartphones to Record 'bullet Time'
Anyone can now create "bullet-time" movies using collaborative photography techniques on their smartphones.
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Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children
Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relevance for American parents whose children...
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Nasa Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto
What's icy, has "wobbly" potato-shaped moons, and is the world's best-known dwarf planet?
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Here Are the 12 Most Influential Programmers Working Today
The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum—someone, somewhere, wrote the code.
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