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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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Princeton niversity Celebrates the Art of Science
Sometimes the connection between art and science is clear.
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Out with the Old
Getting rid of obsolete data is getting more difficult, thanks to new regulations and more personal devices in the workplace.
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If Your Shrink Is a Bot, How Do You Respond?
Her hair is brown and tied back into a professional-looking ponytail.
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Nasa Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."
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Web Browsers Are Reinvented
Mobile phones, wearable devices, and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend...
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Why Google and the Pentagon Want 'quantum Computers'
Imagine a computer that can teach your mobile phone to recognize any object it sees, or one that can instantly find optimal travel routes for thousands of planes...
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Google Introduces New Search Tools to Try to Read Our Minds
The company revealed some new search tools on Wednesday at I/O, its annual developers conference.
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Kepler Telescope's Planet-Hunting Days Crunch to a Close
"Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever...
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Google Overhauling Flagship Search with 'answer, Converse, Anticipate'
During its Keynote today, Google announced new features coming to its flagship search function—you know, that thing we all started using Google for. VP Amit Singhal...
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Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
Jason Mars is a rarity. He's an outsider with regular access to Google's data centers.
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MIT Robots Can Assemble Your Ikea Furniture For You
Oh, IKEA. Your modern and affordable Scandinavian-inspired furniture is full of such promise.
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Touching the Future: Artificial Skin Isn't Sci-Fi
A whisper-thin new pressure sensor could be a step toward creating artificial skin that is able to actually feel.
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Litterbugs Beware: Turning Found Dna Into Portraits
Heather Dewey-Hagborg was sitting in a therapy session a while ago and noticed a painting on the wall. The glass on the frame was cracked, and lodged in the crack...
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Landlords Double as Energy Brokers
The trophy high-rises on Madison, Park, and Fifth Avenues in Manhattan have long commanded the top prices in the country for commercial real estate, with yearly...
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A Hack-Proof Internet Exists, Thanks to Quantum Physics
Leave it to the quantum physicists at Los Alamos National Labs to have run for the past two years something that sounded like science fiction: a quantum Internet...
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Inside the Drone Economy
Last month the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the unmanned systems industry's largest trade organization, released its first economic study...
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What to Expect When Elevators and Toys Start Phoning Home
Your next elevator pitch might actually come from data derived from your elevator.
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U.s. Cyberwar Strategy Stokes Fear of Blowback
Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers...
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Big Data from Cheap Phones
At a computer in her office at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, epidemiologist Caroline Buckee points to a dot on a map of Kenya's western highlands...
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