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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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The Best Time to Wage Cyberwar
If you discover a way to hack into your enemy's computers, do you strike while the iron is hot, or patiently wait for a better opportunity to arise?
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What the Heck Is a Ram Scraper?
As the mystery around the credit card hacking at retail giants Target and Nieman Marcus continues to unfold, you’re going to start hearing a lot about something...
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Emory, Georgia Tech Team Up on High-Performance Computing Cluster
Researchers at Emory University and Georgia Tech will share the computing power of TARDIS, a new high-performance computing cluster.
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Confused About the Nsa's Quantum Computing Project? This MIT Computer Scientist Can Explain.
My Washington Post colleagues have reported on a National Security Agency program to to build a quantum computer.
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Designing the Next Wave of Computer Chips
Not long after Gordon E. Moore proposed in 1965 that the number of transistors that could be etched on a silicon chip would continue to double approximately every...
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Listen Up: Online Spies Can Hear Your Computer
Researchers say it is possible to access a non-connected computer through its speakers.
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How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
Google Street View has become an essential part of the online mapping experience.
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New Innovation by NS Researchers Enhances Information Storage in Electronics
Researchers say they have developed magnetoresistive random access memory technology that can boost information storage in electronic systems.
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Thanks to the Nsa, Quantum Computing May Some Day Be in the Cloud
The U.S. National Security Agency is spending about $80 million for basic quantum computing research.
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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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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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Reading Your Palm For Security's Sake
They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain.
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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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Edward Snowden, After Months of Nsa Rvelations, Says His Mission's Accomplished
The familiar voice on the hotel room phone did not waste words.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots
The Schaft robot developed by Japanese researchers dominated the U.S. Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge 2013 Trials.
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Biologically Inspired: How Neural Networks Are Finally Maturing
Neural networks modeled on the human brain have advanced over the past 20 years and are now making their way into mainstream computing.
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Ohio Builds Awesim Web-Based Supercomputing Apps
AweSim is a Web-based app store that will offer high-performance computing tools to small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses.
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The Geeks on the Front Lines
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...
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