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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising,...
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Who Tracks the Trackers that Track You Online? You Can, with Lightbeam.
When your browser landed on this article, it didn't just talk to the friendly servers at washingtonpost.com.
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Google Launches Build-Your-Own-Phone Project Ara
Motorola wants to allow users of its smartphones to customize the device's components. The company has been working on Project Ara for more than a year, and has...
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Sticky Memory May Turn Post-It Notes Into Flash Drives
The National Taiwan University's Yang-Fang Chen and colleagues have developed a self-adhesive memory card using a layer of graphene coated with conductive polymers...
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Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
If the New York Times's latest article is to be believed, artificial intelligence is moving so fast it sometimes seems almost "magical."
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Japan: A Haven For Humanoid Robots
Noriko Arai is not the first woman to spotlight the hazard that boys and their toys can present, and she won't be the last.
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Making Robots More Like S
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...
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Dm Warns of Enemies' Cyber War Against Iran
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan warned of enemies' possible plots to wage a cyber war against the country to destroy Iran's scientific...
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Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...
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Intelligence Chief Clapper Cites 'casablanca' in Dismissing Merkel Mess
You must remember this: A kiss is just a kiss, a spy is just a spy.
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Research Brings nbreakable Phones One Step Closer
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology researchers have developed a method to transfer electronics with versatile functionality onto a flexible surface. RMIT's...
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'feel' Objects in Thin Air: The Future of Touch Technology
Touch technology has come a long way in the last decade.
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Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes
How has the definition of life changed during your lifetime?
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Of Fact, Fiction and Defibrillators
In a chilling episode of "Homeland" last year, a terrorist killed the vice president with a fiendishly clever weapon: a remote-control device that attacked the...
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Germany Wants a German Internet as Spying Scandal Rankles
As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate...
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Can Technology Help Avoid Stampedes?
It seems the cruellest and most unnecessary of deaths—to be crushed in the midst of a crowd.
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The Information-Gathering Paradox
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...
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Cassini Swings Above Saturn to Compose a Portrait
It's a view as good as gold. A loop high above Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its main rings.
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