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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Dawn in Excellent Shape One Month After Ceres Arrival
Since its capture by the gravity of dwarf planet Ceres on March 6, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has performed flawlessly, continuing to thrust with its ion engine as...
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Planes Without Pilots
Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental...
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Brain Compass Implant Gives Blind Rats Psychic Gps
Who needs sight to get around when you've got a digital compass in your head?
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Can You Vote For the Next President on Your Smartphone? Not Just Yet.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has approved a measure to update the security and accessibility guidelines for voting machines.
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How Google Is Making Sure Cows Won't Foil Its Self-Driving Cars
Most of us haven't had a cow wander on to a road in front of us while we're driving. Still, it's the type of situation Google is wisely anticipating.
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What Are the Colors of Alien Life?
Just before it became the first man-made vessel to leave the solar system, in 1990, Voyager 1 took a portrait of Earth, some four billion miles away.
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The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley
Shariq Hashme squints at his laptop screen as he scrolls through hundreds of lines of computer code.
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Hbo's John Oliver Hits Snowden Hard on Nsa Leaks
Edward Snowden and an unlikely interviewer squared-off on HBO over the leaks that exposed the National Security Agency's extensive surveillance programs.
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Professor Uses Online Data to Predict Future Fashion Trends
A Pennsylvania State University team is collecting and analyzing data in an attempt to make fashion trends comprehensible to the average person.
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Sabina, New Domestic Service Robot
New software enables a domestic service robot to learn under user guidance via remote control, voice commands, or by being shown the tasks.
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Wear Your Social Network
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab students are making it easier for people to make connections by broadcasting their social media interests offline...
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Researchers Build Brain-Machine Interface to Control Prosthetic Hand
Researchers have demonstrated a non-invasive technique to enable a subject to directly control a prosthetic hand using only their thoughts.
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Tech Titans' Latest Project: Defy Death
Seated at the head of a table for 12 with a view of the city's soaring skyline, Peter Thiel was deep in conversation with his guests, eclectic scientists whose...
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Why Shades of Asperger's Syndrome Are the Secret to Building a Great Tech Company
The individuals who have founded some of the most success tech companies are decidedly weird.
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Is 'making a Game Out of Learning' Bad For Learning?
In MIT's Education Arcade, classic game consoles line the office corridor, rafters are strung with holiday lights, and inflatable, stuffed and papier-maché creatures...
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Diagnosis By Keyboard
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.
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New U.s.-Japan Collaborations Bring Big Data Approaches to Disaster Response
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency will jointly fund six collaborative big data projects to enhance disaster management...
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Surveying the Mooc Landscape
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have released "one of the largest investigations of massive open online courses to date."
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