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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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New Smart Key Software Enhances Security For Homes and Businesses
A software-based electronic smart key system developed by U.K. computer scientists and security specialists offers a more flexible security system.
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Verizon, At&t Tracking Their Users with 'supercookies'
Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have dubbed "supercookies"—markers...
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Random Image Experiment Reveals The Building Blocks of Human Imagination
Here's a curious experiment.
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Ft Interview with Google Co-Founder and Ceo Larry Page
Wouldn't the world be a happier place if 90 per cent of the people with jobs put their feet up instead and left the robots to do the work?
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New Players in the Nba: Big Data, ser-Controlled Jumbotrons
The NBA ushered in the new season this past week, and fans at the Staples Center for the Los Angeles Clippers' opening game had access to some new toys.
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Harnessing Error-Prone Chips
Chisel is a new system that lets programmers identify sections of their code that can tolerate small errors.
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What Is It Like to Control a Robotic Arm with a Brain Implant?
Jan Scheuermann is not your average experimental subject.
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Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong
It's flu season and Google has some news.
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A Print Magazine For Hackers
On a Saturday afternoon earlier this summer, dozens of hackers, journalists, and activists sat on the floor in a darkened hallway of the Pennsylvania Hotel in Midtown...
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Google Developing a Pill That Would Detect Cancer and Other Diseases
Google is attempting to develop a pill that would send microscopic particles into the bloodstream in an effort to identify cancers, imminent heart attacks, and...
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Brain Decoder Can Eavesdrop on Your Inner Voice
Talking to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime.
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Technology Group Promises Scientists Their Own Clouds (the Data Kind)
The nonprofit Internet2 organization is now offering researchers the opportunity to create clouds that will be connected by its network.
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Cassini Sees Sunny Seas on Titan
As it soared past Saturn's large moon Titan recently, NASA's Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas.
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Beyond Gaming, the Vr Boom Is Everywhere—from Classrooms to Therapy Couches
When Oculus almost single-handedly revived the idea of virtual reality from its '90s vaporware grave, it chose the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo as the place...
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Directing Planes, By Remote Control
On a clear day, Per Granquist cannot see forever. But from his perch inside the airport control tower here, he does have an unobstructed view of the future.
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Tu/e-Researchers Demonstrate Record Data Transmission Over a Specially Fabricated Fiber
A new class of fiber will increase transmission capacity, mitigating an impending "capacity crunch" in communication networks from increasing bandwidth demand.
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Breakthrough in Molecular Electronics Paves the Way For Dna-Based Computer Circuits in the Future
Researchers say they have achieved reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four DNA strands.
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Computers Are Learning to See the World Like We Do
What animal is in the picture above?
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Google's Secretive Deepmind Start-up nveils A 'neural Turing Machine'
One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain.
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