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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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'password Fatigue' Haunts Internet Masses
Passwords have proliferated so broadly that it is a daily struggle for users to cope with dozens of them, a syndrome known as password fatigue.
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Team Creates Techniques For High-Quality, High-Resolution Stereo Panoramas
New methods promise to correct the problems of steroscopic panoramas, yielding high-quality panoramas at megapixel resolutions.
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New Stanford Software Helps Identify Cost-Effective Ways to Invest in Clean Water
The new Resource Investment Optimization System (RIOS) is an open source program designed to help identify cost-effective investments for clean and reliable water...
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Father's Genetic Quest Pays Off
Hugh Rienhoff says that his nine-year-old daughter, Bea, is "a fire cracker", "a tomboy" and "a very sassy, impudent girl". But in a forthcoming research paper,...
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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Intel Links Many Screens Into a Giant, Wireless Display
The Display as a Service (DaaS) wireless technology enables a single screen image to be shown on a wall of displays all working as parts of a large display.
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Rosphere: a Spherical Robot For Exploration Missions
The ROSPHERE spherical robot has no wheels or legs, but is able to scroll by itself to conduct missions in wild environments, and is inherently stable.
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How to Fit 1,000 Terabytes on a Dvd
Researchers have developed a technique that increases the data capacity of a single DVD from 4.7 gigabytes to one petabyte.
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Privacy Paradox: Americans Happy to Share Personal Data With Big Business
It's official: Americans may freak out when government collects their data to track terrorists, but they would happily have banks use it to catch some jerk trying...
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Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data
Ram Sriharsha works in the engine room powering one of Silicon Valley's most influential companies. He’s an engineer at Yahoo.
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N.s.a. Leak Puts Focus on System Administrators
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about American surveillance, personifies a debate at the heart of technology...
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Printing Tiny Batteries
Researchers have printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair.
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nderwater Drones Are Multiplying Fast
The next army of unmanned drones are scurrying beneath the ocean's surface.
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Medicine That Monitors You
They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin.
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All the Items Fit to Print
3-D printing has come of age. It promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries and profoundly change the way people buy and consume.
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Google Street View Maps First Skyscraper, Dubai's Burj-Khalifa
For years, the Google Street View team has captured the world's most interesting places and put the 360-degree imagery on Google Maps for the world to experience...
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The Most Amazing Map You'll See Today (no Matter What Day It Is)
There are many way to celebrate your 70th birthday.
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