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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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Man and Machine: Cognitive Computing in the Enterprise
The next generation of cognitive computers aims to serve as cognitive assistants that will supplement human intelligence.
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Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth
Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004.
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Titan's Seas Get an Earthly Stand-In as Robot Explores Chilean Lake
Early Mars rovers had little more intelligence than a fancy remote-controlled car.
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Viewing Where the Internet Goes
Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in?
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Water Plumes Spark a Race to Jupiter Moon Europa
Let's put Mars in our rear-view mirror.
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The Internet of Things in 2014: Steady as It Goes
Continued progress is likely this year toward an interconnected network of devices that will communicate with each other over the Internet.
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Out in the Open: Ex-Google Ad Man Saves You From Ad Hell
The World Privacy Forum recently told the U.S. Congress the data brokerage industry is making millions of dollars selling lists of all kinds of data to marketers...
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The Top Four Tech Legal Cases to Watch in 2014
While we're all wiping the champagne-induced sleep from our eyes, inevitably we have to sober up for 2014.
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Inside Tao: Documents Reveal Top Nsa Hacking nit
In January 2010, numerous homeowners in San Antonio, Texas, stood baffled in front of their closed garage doors.
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Faa Picks Six Projects to Tackle Drone Technology Development
The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday designated six projects across the U.S. for research into drones, the unmanned aircraft that have the potential to...
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Dogecoins and Litecoins and Peercoins Oh My: What You Need to Know About Bitcoin Alternatives
By now, most people have heard of Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer currency whose value has soared over the past couple of years.
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Reading Your Palm For Security's Sake
They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain.
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Researchers Simulate a Worm's Internal Muscle Sensations With Code
Researchers have reached a milestone in an effort to create a virtual nematode worm in a computer.
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Motion-Captured Laughs Make Animations More Amusing
The European Commission's Ilhaire project aims to make chatbot avatars laugh more realistically.
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Smartphone as Mentor: How Tech Could Change Behavior
In a University of Michigan class called Imagine, Innovate, Act!, non-computing students design mobile apps to help users set and meet wellness milestones.
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Stanford and Google Team p to Simulate Key Drug Receptor
A first-of-its-kind atom-level simulation of a cell's G protein-coupled receptor could help improve drug design and lead to specialized scientific projects.
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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
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Nsa Phone Surveillance Legal, Federal Judge Rules
The debate over the National Security Agency's collection of millions of Americans' telephone records fell squarely into the courts when a federal judge in Manhattan...
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How Microsoft's 1 Percenters Balance Basic Research with Short-Term Success
When Microsoft launched its research labs in 1991, the personal computer was just beginning to blossom into a worldwide phenomenon, thanks in no small part to Windows...
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