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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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Google's Project Loon Close to Launching Thousands of Balloons
Google is close to launching thousands of balloons in an effort to provide Internet access from the sky.
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N-Zero Envisions 'asleep-Yet-Aware' Electronics That Could Revolutionize Remote Wireless Sensors
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Near Zero Power and Sensor Operations program is working to develop wireless, event-driven sensing capabilities...
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...
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Hackers sing Startling New Ways to Steal Your Passwords
Rsearchers have found hackers can speculate PINs by interpreting video of people tapping their smartphone screens even when the display is not visible.
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Google's Search pdated Will Remake the Web in Its Own Image
Some people are calling it Mobilegeddon.
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Glitter Cloud May Serve as Space Mirror
What does glitter have to do with finding stars and planets outside our solar system?
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What It Feels Like to Fly a Drone with Your Brain
At the Global Conference on CyberSpace, Vint Cerf tested technology that lets a person control a drone’s movements with his or her brain.
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Computing After Moore's Law
The technologies chip makers hope can keep Moore's Law alive.
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3 Questions on Killer Robots
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...
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Researchers Send Out an Extensive Look Into Email Behavior
Researchers conducted a large-scale study of email behaviors involving more than 2 million participants who sent 16 billion messages over several months.
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Video Games Can Power p From Merely Fun to Meaningful Experiences
Pennsylvania State University researchers have found many video games can have meaningful entertainment experiences for players.
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Car Safety System Could Anticipate Driver's Mistakes
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm-based automotive system to predict if the driver will turn, change lanes, or continue going straight. ...
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Proto Quantum Computer Inspired By Victorians Gets a Speed Boost
Quantum computers should theoretically outpace ordinary ones, but attempts to build a speedy quantum machine have so far come up short. Now an approach based on...
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Nasa's New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system...
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As Encryption Spreads, U.s. Grapples with Clash Between Privacy, Security
For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue: Should tech companies be obliged to guarantee government...
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An App That Hides Secret Messages in Starcraft-Style Games
Stony Brook University researchers are developing a prototype tool they believe will be able to send encoded messages using real-time strategy computer games.
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Top 10 Hubble Images
As the famous telescope turns 25, scientists who worked on the project choose their favourite pictures.
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Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Quest to Make Faster, Cheaper Gadgets
Mark Bohr peers through the yellow-tinted windows outside D1D, one of Intel's secretive computer chip factories housed at its 300-acre campus here, about a 30-minute...
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Rule Rewrite Aims to Clean Up Scientific Software
The finding seemed counterintuitive: warming in North America was driving plant species to lower elevations—not towards higher, cooler climes, as ecologists had...
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