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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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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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Privacy Paradox: Americans Happy to Share Personal Data With Big Business
It's official: Americans may freak out when government collects their data to track terrorists, but they would happily have banks use it to catch some jerk trying...
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Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data
Ram Sriharsha works in the engine room powering one of Silicon Valley's most influential companies. He’s an engineer at Yahoo.
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N.s.a. Leak Puts Focus on System Administrators
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about American surveillance, personifies a debate at the heart of technology...
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nderwater Drones Are Multiplying Fast
The next army of unmanned drones are scurrying beneath the ocean's surface.
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Medicine That Monitors You
They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin.
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All the Items Fit to Print
3-D printing has come of age. It promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries and profoundly change the way people buy and consume.
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Backing Creativity
Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.
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Google Street View Maps First Skyscraper, Dubai's Burj-Khalifa
For years, the Google Street View team has captured the world's most interesting places and put the 360-degree imagery on Google Maps for the world to experience...
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The Most Amazing Map You'll See Today (no Matter What Day It Is)
There are many way to celebrate your 70th birthday.
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Huge Holograms Offer Medics More Memorable Classes
A system which uses giant holograms to help medical students master their subject has been pioneered by two London-based junior doctors.
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Web's Reach Binds N.s.a. and Silicon Valley Leaders
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter, or a similar Silicon Valley concern...
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What the Digital Brains of the Future Might Be Like
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...
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Seeing the Human Pulse
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people...
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Sizing p Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet
In his young career, Jeffrey Hammerbacher has been a scout on the frontiers of the data economy.
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Nvidia's Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.
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Where Rich People Live (AKA Maps of iPhone Use)
Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop.
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Fast Fiber: Apps Coming at 70 Percent the Speed of Light
The speed of data transfer will rise dramatically as Gigabit Ethernet grows increasingly available.
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Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...
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