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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Time Lords: The Clocks That Rule Our World
Time is money—and never was this clearer than at 09:59:59.985 Eastern Time, on 3 June 2013.
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If Software Looks Like a Brain and Acts Like a Brain—will We Treat It Like One?
Long the domain of science fiction, researchers are now working to create software that perfectly models human and animal brains.
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Obama Calls For New Cooperation to Wrangle the 'wild West' Internet
President Barrack Obama has called on the private sector to take greater steps to share information about cybersecurity threats.
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The Shape of Things to Come
In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has...
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Star Buzzed Solar System During Human Prehistory
A recently discovered stellar neighbour of the Sun penetrated the extreme fringes of the Solar System—the closest encounter ever documented—at around the time that...
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Comet on 14 February from 8.7 Km
On 14 February 2015, Rosetta swooped over the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at a distance of just 6 km. The closest approach took place at 12:41 GMT...
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New Algorithms Locate Where a Video Was Filmed From Its Images and Sounds
A new system can geolocate videos by comparing their audiovisual content with a worldwide multimedia database.
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Smarter Multicore Chips
Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores...
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Raspberry Pi 2 Review: A $35 Computer Can Do a Heck of a Lot
Our computers have become too easy to use.
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Did Nsa Plant Spyware in Computers Around World?
Did the National Security Agency plant spyware deep in the hard drives of thousands of computers used by foreign governments, banks and other surveillance targets...
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...
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Dawn Captures Sharper Images of Ceres
Craters and mysterious bright spots are beginning to pop out in the latest images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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Cryptographers Could Prevent Satellite Collisions
In February 2009 the U.S.'s Iridium 33 satellite collided with the Russian Cosmos 2251, instantly destroying both communications satellites.
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To Avert Another Heartbleed, Open Source Group Narrows List of Projects in Need of Support
The Core Infrastructure Initiative was formed to identify and provide extra funding to critical open source projects that need help ensuring the security of their...
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Google Retires Spdy in Favor of Http/2
Google plans to phase out its SPDY open networking protocol in early 2016 and instead support HTTP/2 in Chrome.
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In Image-Guided Operating Suites, Surgeons See Real-Time Mri, Ct Scans
Surgeons sometimes fly blind when operating on hard-to-reach anatomical parts or hard-to-see conditions.
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The Coming Boom In Brain Medicines
Tony Coles could have had any job he wanted in the drug industry.
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Jupiter Glimpsed As Aliens Would See It
Astronomers have observed Jupiter for centuries.
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Nasa Rides Artificial Intelligence to the Moon and Mars
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration will use artificial intelligence to schedule research opportunities for its many probes and rovers.
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