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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm
Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.
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The History of the Predator, the Drone that Changed the World
These days, the word drone is used to refer to just about any kind of remote-controlled, unmanned aircraft.
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The Hidden World of Facebook 'like Farms'
Facebook has become the advertising outlet of choice for many of the world’s businesses and companies.
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How Two Men nlocked Modern Encryption
In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.
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'honeybee' Robots Replicate Swarm Behavior
A new open-platform system will make it more feasible and economical for researchers to replicate swarm behavior in a large number of robots.
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Time Dilation Measured at 40 Percent of the Speed of Light—in the Lab
Einstein is most famous for general relativity, which is really a theory of gravity.
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Nasa's Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Red Planet
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 7:24 p.m. PDT (10:24 p.m. EDT) Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now...
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Quantum Internet Could Keep S Safe from Spying Eyes
Quantum networks are quietly spreading across the world.
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Visualizing 4-Dimensional Asteroids
One of the largest treasure troves of astronomical data comes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an ongoing scan of the firmament that began 15 years ago...
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Sensors Everywhere Could Mean Privacy Nowhere, Expert Says
Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford says the Internet of Things will permanently record data on people, often without their knowledge.
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Mapping Big Data
Researchers are applying geographic mapping principals to large sets of unstructured data in hopes of gaining insights into the relationships between them.
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...
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Nsa Director Rogers rges Cyber-Resiliency
In his keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, NSA Director and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers, explained that the Defense...
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Battling Bacteria With Software
Researchers have developed software to help track a potentially dangerous bug which has become resistant to some of the most potent antibiotics.
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Njit Computer Scientists Win a Major Grant to Network Mobile Devices in the Cloud
New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers have received a multi-year grant to develop a platform enabling mobile devices to interact with each other via the...
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Dawn Operating Normally After Safe Mode Triggered
The Dawn spacecraft has resumed normal ion thrusting after the thrusting unexpectedly stopped and the spacecraft entered safe mode on September 11.
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MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience
When we need to send a command or a file from our smartphone to our laptop, we do it through menus.
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Researchers' New App Outs Iphone and Android Phone Energy Hogs
New, free iOS and Android software identifies which apps drain the most power from device batteries.
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How Network Theory Is Revealing Previously nknown Patterns in Sport
If you've ever watched soccer, you'll know of the subtle differences in tactics and formation between different teams.
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