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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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Watching Electrons Move Within an Atom
Can scientists image the motion of electrons inside atoms?
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Icann Ceo Sets Off Explosion of New Internet Names
Starting next week, the Internet is going to look very different—and ICANN Chief Executive Fadi Chehade is the one who'll get both the credit and the blame.
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How Can Supercomputers Survive a Drought?
Recent drought conditions around the United States have increased concerns over the tremendous amount of water required to run data centers and supercomputers.
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Nasa Preparing For 2014 Comet Watch at Mars
This spring, NASA will be paying cautious attention to a comet that could put on a barnstorming show at Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.
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How Real Is Spike Jonze's 'her'? Artificial Intelligence Experts Weigh In
In Spike Jonze's Oscar-nominated, futuristic film 'Her,' computers compose music, carry on seamless conversations with humans, organize emails instantaneously,...
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Spy Agencies Tap Data Streaming From Phone Apps
When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background...
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Graphene Rival 'phosphorene' Is Born to Be a Transistor
Phosphorene, which is structurally similar to graphene, is a natural semiconductor that could be used in the next generation of computers.
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Bio-Inspired Robotic Device Could Aid Ankle-Foot Rehabilitation
Robotics researchers have developed an active orthotic device that can duplicate the natural motions in a person's ankle.
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Crowdsourcing a Living Map of World Health
A project at University of California, San Diego uses crowdsourcing to create maps of large-scale health problems and environmental damage.
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The Race to Buy the Human Brains Behind Deep Learning Machines
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.
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How You Might Be Tracked For Ads in a Post-Cookie World
The Web cookie may be dying, but that doesn’t mean it is the end of consumers being tracked online.
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How the Incite Project Allots Supercomputer Hours
Researchers vie for some of the billions of computer-hours available on two of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
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China's Jade Rabbit Rover May Be Victim of Moon Dust
A plucky bunny on the moon may have just met an untimely end.
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The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking are playing poker together.
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10 years of Opportunity: Celebrating the Rover’s Role on Mars and Earth
On January 25, 2004, a strange object fell out of the sky on a distant planet—and when it hit the surface, it started to bounce.
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D-Wave Aims to Beat Any Classical Computer
D-Wave says its D-Wave Two quantum computer's 509-qubit Vesuvius 6 (V6) processor can rival state-of-the-art semiconducting processors.
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At Super Bowl, Detecting Threats Is Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Imagine this scenario: In the course of an hour this week, four different people involved in Super Bowl setup require emergency medical assistance, all for nausea...
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The Inside Story of Tor, the Best Internet Anonymity Tool the Government Ever Built
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.
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One Day an Elevator Might Ask—are You Getting On?
Microsoft researchers have enabled elevators in a company building to detect the likelihood that a person walking by will want to board it.
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