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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups
Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...
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How to Tell If You're Being Tracked on Safari
If you're on an iPhone or iPad using the most recent version of Apple's operating system, click on the "Settings" icon, and then click on "Safari."
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question...
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Ultrafast Trades Trigger Black Swan Events Every Day, Say Econophysicists
On 6 May 2010, shares on U.S. financial markets suddenly dropped on average by around 10% but in over 300 stocks by more than 60%. Moments later the prices recovered...
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Big Data Spawns New Breed of 'data Scientist'
A new breed of data scientists is in demand as a result of the rise of big data. Government, universities, and industry are looking for people with a rare mix...
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What Dropbox Can Teach S About Cloud Computing
Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services.
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The Age of Big Data
Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.
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Researchers Claim 100-Fold Increase in Data Storage Speed
Researchers at the universities of York and Nijmegen have developed a method for accelerating data storage hundredfold.
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Scientists Develop Biological Computer to Encrypt and Decipher Images
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a computer made entirely from biomolecules that can...
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Four Telescope Link-Up Creates World's Largest Mirror
Astronomers have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope linking four telescopes in Chile, so that they operate as a single device.
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Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have developed a system that aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research...
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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web Giants Store Big
Consider the tech it takes to back the search box on Google's home page: behind the algorithms, the cached search terms, and the other features that spring to life...
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Phase-Change Materials Can Fix Machine Memory Crunch
Phase-change materials (PCMs) could thwart the limits of digital memory and enable a massive increase in storage density. PCM's biggest advantage is that it can...
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DARPA Takes Aim at "achilles Heel" of Advanced Computing: Power
The power required to increase computing performance, especially in embedded or sensor systems has become a serious constraint and is restricting the potential...
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sing Real-Time Road Traffic Data to Evaluate Congestion
Cambridge University researchers are working on the Transport Information Monitoring Environment (TIME) project, which aims to provide data that enables businesses...
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Car Control Software Chaos Revealed in Major Safety Study
While automated software control systems are increasingly being used in vehicles, safety authorities do not have enough expertise to measure or regulate them, according...
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Oxford, Harvard Scientists Lead Data-Sharing Effort
More than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations worldwide have developed a common standard that will enable scientists to share data from different...
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Fbi Seeks Data-Mining App For Social Media
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to develop a data-mining application that will enable the agency to monitor social media network activity for intelligence...
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Digitizing Health Records, Before It Was Cool
The push to move the nation from paper to electronic health records is serious business. That's why a first look at the campus of Epic Systems comes as something...
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