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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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Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice
GM Voices is nestled on a rolling, leafy road in Alpharetta, Georgia, an affluent suburb of Atlanta.
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Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.
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How Robots Can Trick You Into Loving Them
I like to think of my Roomba as cute and industrious.
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Say Goodbye to the Password
Here's the fundamental problem with passwords: They are most effective in protecting a company when they are long, complicated and changed frequently. In other...
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Bug Bounty Program Slates $300k Mobile Hacking Contest For November
Hewlett-Packard Tipping Point's bug bounty program will sponsor the second annual Mobile Pwn2Own contest this fall.
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Disney Develops 'magical' Device to Make Fingertips Sing
The Inshin-Den-Shin technology developed at Disney Research transmits sound through the human body, and turns fingertips into speakers.
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The Skies. The Limits.
Long ago, in a dreamier era, space stations were imagined as portals to the heavens.
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Security Tech Firms Hit Jackpot in Asia Casino Boom
Asia's new mega-casinos are driving sales and innovation in advanced surveillance technology, from chips with built-in radio transmitters to high-definition, multi...
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Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World, but Struggles For Status
Tien Wu, chief operating officer of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, has a problem: the brightest young people in Taiwan do not want to work in the island’s...
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E-Zpasses Get Read All Over New York (not Just at Toll Booths)
After spotting a police car with two huge boxes on its trunk—that turned out to be license-plate-reading cameras—a man in New Jersey became obsessed with the loss...
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Vote Early, Vote Often: Inside Norway's Pioneering Open Source E-Voting Trials
Norway recently held its second e-voting pilot, following an initial trial that took place during the local government elections in 2011.
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Tough Robo-Challenge Casts Robots as Rescuers
Global robotics specialists are competing to design a robot that can perform emergency-response duties during disasters.
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Wireless Network Detects Falls by the Elderly
New fall-detection technology would not require the elderly to wear any monitoring devices.
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The Boy Genius of lan Bator
Days before I was to meet Battushig Myanganbayar at his home in Mongolia, he sent me an e-mail with a modest request: Would I bring him a pair of tiny XBee wireless...
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Tiny Recon Robots Herald New Generation of Drones
Ex-U.S. Marine Ernest Langdon pulls a pin and throws a small black object onto the ground. But it doesn't explode.
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Grand Theft Auto 5: Inside the Creative Process with Dan Houser
We're four days away now. After a year of pre-publicity and a five-year wait since GTA IV, the latest instalment in Rockstar's gangland opus is almost upon us.
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The Man Who Would Build a Computer the Size of the Entire Internet
Solomon Hykes has started an open source software project called Docker that aims to use the Internet as one enormous computer.
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