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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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Eugene Kaspersky: Major Cyberterrorist Attack Is Only Matter of Time
A major, global cyberterrorist attack has long been the stuff of fiction, the threat that a malevolent hacker could bring down businesses, sabotage power plants...
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Basic Science Finds Corporate Refuge
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.
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Watch the Earth From Space, Live!
It doesn't get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).
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5 New Record-Breaking Roller Coasters That Will Terrify You This Summer
Taller, faster, steeper, and more stomach-dropping amusement park rides are opening across the country.
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Carnegie Mellon-Disney Researcher Invents 3D Printing Technique For Making Cuddly Stuff
Researchers have developed a type of three-dimensional printer that produces 3D objects made of a form of loose felt.
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Transcending Artificial Intelligence
While it can be a blast going to see the latest Hollywood sci-fi thriller, watching it along with a leading expert in the science and technology fields relevant...
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Friends, and Influence, for Sale Online
Whoever said, "Money can't buy you friends," clearly hasn’t been on the Internet recently.
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Police Use New Tool to Source Crowds For Evidence
An annual spring party in a Southern California beach town devolved into a riot last month when revelers turned violent, rocking cars, smashing windows and throwing...
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity
No one ever accused Mark Zuckerberg of standing pat.
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Future Macbook Keyboards May Come Loaded with In-Key Displays, Capacitive Touch
Showing the company is still making advances in more traditional tech, an Apple patent filing for "Multi-functional keyboard assemblies" describes a keyboard consisting...
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Target on Mars Looks Good For Nasa Rover Drilling
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover performed a "mini-drill" operation Tuesday, April 29, on the rock target under consideration for the mission's third sample-collection...
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This 3D Printer Technology Can Print a Game Controller, Electronics and All
The Rabbit Proto is an open source three-dimensional printer attachment that enables the device to make functioning electronic prototypes.
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Cyborg Angst: 5 Ways Computers Will Perplex S in 2039
Brain chips mean we are struggling to distinguish our own thoughts from ideas implanted by advertisers.
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What's The Nsa Doing Now? Training More Cyber Warriors
The U.S. needs more cyber warriors, and it needs them fast, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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Watson in Your Pocket: Supercomputer Gets Own Apps
If you could quiz Watson, IBM's all-knowing supercomputer, from an app on your phone, what would you ask it?
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Justices Appear Divided on Cellphone Warrants
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed torn as it considered a pair of cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
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New Material For Flat Semiconductors
Researchers have discovered a two-dimensional material whose properties are very similar to those of graphene, but with some distinct advantages.
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Hackers Can Mess With Traffic Lights to Jam Roads and Reroute Cars
The hacker in the Italian Job did it spectacularly.
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