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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Google Spans Entire Planet With Gps-Powered Database
A new Google research paper details the workings of the Spanner data storage and compilation system, billed as the first database capable of quickly storing and...
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Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality
The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.
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Google Adds Coral Reef Panoramas to Street View Maps
Google recently added panoramas of coral reefs to its Street View services, enabling users to navigate their way around the sites.
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Nasa Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface
NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving.
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Nist's Hash Algorithm Refresh Possibly Premature
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology soon will announce the winning hash algorithm, which eventually will become the next-generation industry...
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Hitachi Targets 2015 For Data Storage That Last 100 Million Years
Hitachi hopes to bring new storage technology capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years to market by 2015.
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m Researchers Mine Data to ncover Terrorist Threats
U.S. counterterrorism efforts monitor and sort vast databases of information for clues on potential plots. Now a team of University of Maryland researchers have...
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Hubble Goes to the Extreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the niverse
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.
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Why Everyone (not Just Geeks) Should Care About Big Data
Hugo Campos has a cardiac defibrillator implanted in his body. It sends data about his heart to his doctors and back to the manufacturer, but it takes days to get...
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Dbtoaster Breaks p Data Jams in Server Farms
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne researchers have developed DBToaster, a system designed to improve the flow of database queries into server farms by accelerating...
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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes niverses
Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...
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Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody.
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.
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Facebook Can Id Faces, but Using Them Grows Tricky
Facebook on Friday confronted a new obstacle over what to do with one of its most vital assets—pictures.
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Why Wi-Fi Is Often So Slow
A number of Internet service providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., have recently upped the maximum speeds of broadband they offer...
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Big Data Brings Big Academic Opportunities
Many colleges and universities are developing advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data.
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Digging For Drug Facts
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
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Big Data and Its Big Problems
Imagine every thousandth blood cell in your body has a tiny radio transmitter in it.
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Watch Your Tongue: Law Enforcement Speech Recognition System Stores Millions of Voices
Intercepting thousands of phone calls is easy for government agencies. But quickly analyzing the calls and identifying the callers can prove a difficult task.
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Bionic Eyes: Sensors That se Lookout's Brainwaves to Spot Trouble
As good as surveillance technology has gotten at some tasks, computers still frequently fail when it comes to figuring out the difference between a threat and a...
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