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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Wallflowers of Silicon Valley Get Asked to Dance
After years of being wallflowers at Silicon Valley's hottest tech conferences and Sean Parker's after-parties, enterprise technology firms are now part of the "in"...
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Stretchable Electronics
University of Delaware researchers are developing power sources for flexible, stretchable electronics, which could find applications in biomedical, wearable, portable...
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There's So Much Data that We're Running Out of Words to Describe It
The world is producing and storing data at such a rate that the day isn't far off when we will literally no longer have a proper way of describing it.
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Hacking the Human Brain: The Next Domain of Warfare
It's been fashionable in military circles to talk about cyberspace as a "fifth domain" for warfare, along with land, space, air, and sea.
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.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens
The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center implemented a new program in March that allows the agency to copy entire government databases and examine information...
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Robots Ride the Ocean Blue
When superstorm Sandy was rampaging across the Caribbean and mid-Atlantic, heralded by gale force winds, torrential rain, and surging tides, people rushed to get...
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China Looks to Lead the Internet of Things
When architect James Law looks in the mirror each morning his reflection is not all that greets him—he can also see the weather report, email messages, and his...
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25-Gpu Cluster Cracks Every Standard Windows Password in <6 Hours
A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster that can cycle through as many as 350 billion guesses per second.
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Business Opportunities Come From Big Data
Big data offers vast potential to disrupt existing businesses and create new ones, but to realize its potential inexpensive storage, faster processing, smarter...
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By 2020, There Will Be 5,200 Gbytes of Data For Every Person on Earth
Over the next eight years more than 40 zettabytes of digital data will be produced, which is equal to 5,200 gigabytes of data for every person on Earth, according...
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7 Secret Ways America's Stealth Armada Stays Off the Radar
It's no secret how America's stealth warplanes primarily evade enemy radars.
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More Radar, Less Radio for Safer Takeoffs And Landings
US Airways Flight 27 was roaring down Runway 15R at Boston's Logan Airport when a pickup truck suddenly pulled into its path.
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Is the Pixel About to Die?
University of Bath researchers say they have developed a vector-based video codec that could lead to the death of the pixel within five years.
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They Know What You're Shopping For
Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market for a BMW.
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'biology Is a Manufacturing Capability'
Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology.
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A Rising Tide of Noise Is Now Easy to See
When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms...
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Federal Agency Wants Black Boxes in Every New Car By September 2014
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed a new unified standard for event data recorders for cars, commonly known as "black boxes."
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Iran: All Data of Captured U.S. RQ-170 Drone Decoded
A senior Iranian commander announced that the country has extracted all the data and information existing in the intelligence gathering systems of the United States'...
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