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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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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells p to 38 Times Faster
A new approach combines computer vision and hardware optimization to sort cells up to 38 times faster than is currently possible.
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More Than a Game
Researchers have used graphics processing units to demonstrate how to crunch certain astrophysics calculations much more quickly than conventional methods.
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How Dia Is Cultivating Google-Like Innovation
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency is using cloud computing to foster innovation among government agencies, industry, and academia.
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Imagining Data Without Division
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...
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Early Humans Saw Black Hole Light in the Night Sky
Some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors were learning to walk upright, a light appeared in the night sky, rivalling the moon for brightness and...
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Did a Hyper-Black Hole Spawn the niverse?
It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed...
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A Google Glass Alternative in Japan
Foreign tourists visiting this city have long encountered translation help.
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c San Diego, md Researchers to Build ‘wifire’ Cyberinfrastructure
A project called WIFIRE aims to develop a cyberinfrastructure to improve wildfire predictions and simulations.
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Website Maps 1.2 Billion Facebook Faces
Facebook has so many users—more than a billion, or roughly the population of India—that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Tiny Sensor Used in Smartphones Could Create Urban Seismic Network
A tiny chip used in smartphones to adjust the orientation of the screen can detect moderate to strong earthquakes when located near the epicenter.
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Bison Enables Complex Nuclear Fuel Modeling, Simulation
BISON is a new software designed to make it easier for researchers to gain insight into processes they would not otherwise have resources to simulate.
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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment
A group of theoretical physicists is using supercomputers to try to understand why the early universe ended up with an excess of matter.
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Seeing Light in a New Way
Scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are challenging the conventional wisdom about light, and they didn't need to go...
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids
Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look.
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How the Fifa 14 Soccer Video Game Finally Got Its Physics Right
When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale last week, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air.
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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Visually Impaired Turn to Smartphones to See Their World
Advocates for the visually impaired say smartphones and tablets could be the most helpful assistive aid to emerge since the invention of Braille.
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