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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researcher Controls Colleague's Motions in First Human Brain-to-Brain Interface
University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send...
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Nasa's Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, a capability that lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely on Mars.
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How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now
If you want to understand the modern academy, it wouldn't hurt to start at "impact factor."
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The New York Times Web Site Was Taken Down By Dns Hijacking. Here's What That Means.
Just weeks after The Washington Post had our own run-in with the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the New York Times is down, and the SEA is claiming responsibility...
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A Glimpse Into the Future of Robotic Technology
The European Union-funded EYESHOTS project has developed a model robot that can acquire awareness of its surroundings and use its memory to reach for objects.
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How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program...
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NASA's Plan to Put a Landsail Rover on Venus
Venus is like a reclusive celebrity that gets the public's attention every couple of years, though in the planet's case it's more like every century.
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Wearable Robots Are No Longer Science Fiction
Exoskeletons will address military, medical, commercial applications.
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Why Video Games May Be Good For You
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.
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How a Look at Your Gmail Reveals the Power of Metadata
Sometimes you have to give up a little privacy in order to find out how much—or how little—privacy you really have.
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Google+ Posts Getting Language Translation Services
The Google+ translation feature will enable desktop users to rapidly receive basic translations when other users make posts in languages other than their own.
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NIST Study Advances Use of Iris Images as a Long-Term Form of Identification
Biometric researchers studying iris stability have determined that no consistent change occurs in the distinguishing texture of irises for at least a decade.
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Wormhole Is Best Bet For Time Machine, Astrophysicist Says
The concept of a time machine typically conjures up images of an implausible plot device used in a few too many science-fiction storylines.
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Productivity Tools For Cybercrime
Stealing 10 million dollars a few hundred dollars at a time used to be too labor-intensive to be a great business.
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Can an AI Get Into the University of Tokyo?
Researchers are attempting to create an artificial intelligence (AI) program capable of passing school entrance exams.
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Researchers Granted Patent For System That Fuses Human and Computer Intelligence
The creators of a system that integrates human and computer intelligence to support decision-making in crisis situations have been awarded a U.S. patent.
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Kean Computer Science Students in nion Travel 'beyond the Grave'
A new smartphone app provides access to information on grave markers in the First Presbyterian Church cemetery in Elizabeth, N.J.
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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Incubator
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is...
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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four...
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