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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 Robot Tricks to Bridge the Uncanny Valley
If A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better?
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Tiny Transistors For Extreme Environs
University of Utah electrical engineers have fabricated the smallest transistors that can withstand the temperatures and radiation found in a nuclear reactor.
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Mugshots Built from Dna Data
Leaving a hair at a crime scene could one day be as damning as leaving a photograph of your face.
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This Underwater Microphone Could Find the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
Authorities are all but certain Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down in the south Indian Ocean in water that may be as deep as 23,000 feet.
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College Basketball Data Aplenty for Those Who Can Afford It
When Butler fell a precious few inches short of winning a national championship in 2010, its players took the court during that season believing they were the most...
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Could Diamonds Be a Computer’s Best Friend?
Researchers have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire, a finding that could lead to the material's use in computing.
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Quantum Rewrites the Rules of Computing
Quantum computers are rewriting the rules of how computing works, but even the people developing them say they cannot explain how they work.
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A 'crisis' in Online Ads: One-Third of Traffic Is Bogus
Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising. But marketers also are confronting an uncomfortable reality: rampant fraud.
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Nasa Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations
Variations in the stuff that cements grains together in sandstone have shaped the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and could be a study topic at...
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Are Smart Homes Intelligent Enough To Keep Out Hackers?
How hack-resistant are the connected systems in smart homes?
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The Digital nwrapping of the Egyptian Priest Neswaiu
In the 19th century and even later, there was no shortage of people eager to watch the unwrapping of an Egyptian mummy.
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N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the United States for...
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Tor sage in Turkey Surges During Twitter Ban
Since Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan implemented a ban on Twitter late last week, Tor usage in the country has surged—with connections nearly doubling...
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Bioengineer Designs Diagnostic Microscope Costing Less Than $1
It's an invention that would make TV's secret agent MacGyver proud: a fully functional microscope that can be assembled from folded paper and a tiny bead of glass...
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DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2014: Google’s Schaft Will Be Self-Funded, More Competitors Added
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2014 has announced Google’s SCHAFT robot will compete in the self-funded track.
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Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets
A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars.
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Speech-to-Speech Translations Stutter, But Researchers See Mellifluous Future
The practical need for accurate instant or simultaneous machine translations continues to grow as applications multiply.
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Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost .s. Tech Companies
Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.
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