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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful
New techniques are designed to translate "invisible numbers" into visible images.
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Nasa Announces Global Award Winners of the 2014 International Space Apps Challenge
Judges have selected five winners in the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 2014 International Space Apps Challenge.
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Engineering Graduate ses Big Data to Seek Insights to Bicycle Travel Flow
A recent big data project was designed to get a better understanding of bicycle usage and its relationship to automobile and bus traffic.
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My Duolingo Learning App Can Reshape Education
Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn says he believes his Duolingo venture is determining what next-generation education will look like.
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The Age of Quantum Computing Has (almost) Arrived
Google owns a lot of computers—perhaps a million servers stitched together into the fastest, most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet.
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Should .s. Hackers Fix Cybersecurity Holes or Exploit Them?
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government—specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Command—should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities or disclose...
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Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Crisis
Nearly 4.3 billion kilometres from Earth, and most of the way to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is in danger of missing out on half of its mission.
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Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander
NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review...
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Stanford Engineer Invents a Way to Beam Power to Medical Chips Deep Inside the Body
Researchers say they have has developed a technology that paves the way for 'electroceutical' devices to treat illness or alleviate pain.
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Three Questions with the Man Leading Baidu's New AI Effort
Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.
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Hidden Greenland Canyons Mean More Sea Level Rise
Scientists at NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), have found that canyons under Greenland's ocean-feeding glaciers are deeper and longer than previously...
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From the Smartphone to the Cloud and Back Again
College of William & Mary professor Robert Dickerson says there are many reasons to tie a smartphone app to the cloud.
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The Myths & Realities of How the Eu's New 'right To Be Forgotten' in Google Works
Is it true that anyone in the EU can have anything removed from Google and other search engines?
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For U.s. Companies That Challenge China, the Risk of Digital Reprisal
Two large American steel makers, U.S. Steel and Allegheny Technologies, each lost confidential files giving access to their computer networks.
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Microbial Stowaways to Mars Identified
Dozens of microbial species may have accompanied the Curiosity rover to Mars, where it landed in August 2012.
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How Google Built Its 3-D Interactive Rubik's Cube Doodle
Today Google launched one of its coolest doodles yet: a 3-D interactive Rubik's Cube.
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Why the Death of Net Neutrality Would Be a Disaster For Libraries
The Internet's eyes turned to the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, as the panel approved a plan to consider allowing Internet service providers to...
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Harvard's Robotic Bees Aim to Pollinate Crops, Search For Survivors in Rubble
Researchers hope to prove within the next few years that it is possible to use robotic bees to artificially pollinate crops.
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The Emerging Science of Superspreaders (and How to Tell If You're One of Them)
Who are the most influential spreaders of information on a network?
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