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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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Of Fact, Fiction and Defibrillators
In a chilling episode of "Homeland" last year, a terrorist killed the vice president with a fiendishly clever weapon: a remote-control device that attacked the...
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Germany Wants a German Internet as Spying Scandal Rankles
As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate...
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Can Technology Help Avoid Stampedes?
It seems the cruellest and most unnecessary of deaths—to be crushed in the midst of a crowd.
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The Information-Gathering Paradox
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...
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Killer Apps That Could Keep You Healthy
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory recently hosted a competition in which graduate students designed two mobile apps, called FoodFeed and FL•U, to fight...
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Cassini Swings Above Saturn to Compose a Portrait
It's a view as good as gold. A loop high above Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its main rings.
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
"It depends on what you mean by artificial intelligence."
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Haunted House Business Gets Boost As Techs p Thrill Ante
Ed Terebus was an 18-year-old high school student when he and his big brother Jim, a laid-off auto worker, decided to build their first haunted house 34 years ago...
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Roller Coaster Technology: 'bigger! Faster! Scarier!'
Alton Towers in Staffordshire has just opened the world's first 14-loop roller coaster, called The Smiler, while in Abu Dhabi, Ferrari World claims to have the...
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Smuggler-Spotting Software Sniffs Out Dodgy Shipments
Machine intelligence could make it easier to spot illicit cargo among the goods that move through the world's ports.
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Technology Mimics the Brushstrokes of Masters
Emerging printing technologies are enabling high-quality reproductions of art masterpieces that copy color, brushstrokes, and paint thickness precisely.
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.k. Official rges .s. Government to Adopt a Digital Core
When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day.
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Noise Pollution Maps Crowdsourced From Smartphone Data
Researchers say they have developed an improved method of creating noise pollution maps that uses crowdsourced smartphone data.
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Study: 80% of College Students Say They Text in Class
From the front of his classroom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor Barney McCoy noticed that students’ smart phones were making regular appearances...
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Nasa Laser Communication System Sets Record with Data Transmissions to and from Moon
NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239,000 miles between the moon and Earth...
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In Cyberarms Race, North Korea Emerging As a Power, Not a Pushover
Often dismissed as a laggard in the global cyberarms race, North Korea has long been seen as a chronic cyber-superpower wannabe.
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The Secrets of Online Money Laundering
Money laundering is increasingly becoming a cybercrime.
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Two-Legged Robots Learn to Walk Like a Human
An international team of researchers from seven institutions are teaching two-legged robots a stable, robust human way of walking.
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Interview With 13-Year-Old MIT App Inventor Winner Arjun Kumar
A chat with Arjun Kumar, winner of the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology App Inventor contest in the K-8 division for his EZ School Bus Locator.
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