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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Life After Siri: Nuance's phill Climb To Being Your Digital Assistant
In the gleaming Silicon Valley branch office of speech-recognition firm Nuance Communications, a small room has been made to look like a homey den.
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Printed Graphene Transistors Promise a Flexible Electronic Future
Flexible electronic circuits could one day utilize graphene radio-frequency electronics with sufficient speed to generate, receive, and process telecommunication...
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Sdsc Launches 'sherlock' to Solve Complex National Challenges
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is offering Sherlock technology to provide healthcare and government IT services to U.S. government agencies and universities...
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Computer Can Read Letters Directly From the Brain
A mathematical model has allowed scientists to analyze magnetic resonance imaging scans of the human brain and reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before...
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NASA Spacecraft Reactivated to Hunt for Asteroids
A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being placed in hibernation will return to...
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Apple Patents 3d Gesture i For Ios Based on Proximity Sensor Input
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday published an Apple patent for a method of generating and manipulating a 3D object on a computing device, with the...
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How Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising Could Work With Google Glass
Google wants to see what you see. And then, of course, make money from those images.
From ACM Opinion
dacity Ceo Says Mooc 'magic Formula' Emerging
After weathering a round of negative publicity, Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun believes vindication is at hand.
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Google Maps Trained S to Follow Directions. Now Its Former Developer Wants S to Explore.
It's not evident from the way his hair flops casually down and across, nor from his equally relaxed demeanor, but John Hanke is one of Google's most important idea...
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When You Can't Tell Web Suffixes Without a Scorecard
On the Web, there's no place like .home.
From ACM TechNews
Intel Proposes New Standard to Light Up Data Transfers
Intel's proposed new optical interconnect, MXC, could be a key step in standardizing optical technology and bringing it to servers faster.
From ACM TechNews
A Cost-Effective Solution to Monitoring and Diagnosing Sleeping Disorders
A new software instantly identifies sleep anomalies by comparing the user's movements to their normal sleeping and waking patterns.
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Nrel Releases Free, Open-Source Energy Analysis Tool
Energy DataBus is a new open source app for tracking, storing, and analyzing energy-related data for optimizing energy use and spotting leaks.
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Foursquare Check-Ins Tell Stores Where to Set Up Shop
A recent study on the use of social media was designed to help retailers find the best locations for new stores.
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Advancing Resistive Memory to Improve Portable Electronics
A new technology could lead to the next generation of memory storage devices for portable electronics such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, and digital cameras...
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Nsa's Surveillance Program Could Dig Deep
The U.S. National Security Agency has shrouded its collection of Americans’ personal information in secrecy, which makes it difficult to judge whether that data...
From ACM Careers
Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online
Next January, the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses for a fraction of the...
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How Big Data Could Help Identify the Next Felon—or Blame the Wrong Guy
Think of it as big data meets "Minority Report."
From ACM News
Among the Nsa's Own Tips For Securing Computers: Remove the Webcam
Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets.
From ACM TechNews