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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Nsa Revelations Could Hurt Collaboration with 'betrayed' Hackers
The U.S. government's efforts to recruit talented hackers could suffer from the recent revelations about its vast domestic surveillance programs, as many private...
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Computer-Brain Interfaces Making Big Leaps
Scientists haven't yet found a way to mend a broken heart, but they're edging closer to manipulating memory and downloading instructions from a computer right into...
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual...
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Crypto Experts Issue a Call to Arms to Avert the Cryptopocalypse
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a quartet of researchers, Alex Stamos, Tom Ritter, Thomas Ptacek, and Javed Samuel, implored everyone involved...
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Cells Reprogrammed on the Computer
Scientists have developed computer-based instructions for reprogramming cells.
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Researchers Aim to Create Virtual Speech Therapist
Researchers working to develop a virtual speech therapist, technology that could help people overcome the language disorder known as aphasia.
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Watson and the Future of Cognitive Computing
Many applications being explored on the Watson supercomputer involve processing huge volumes of data rapidly to enable cognitive systems to engage with people in...
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Turning Unused Tv Frequencies Into Wireless Broadband
The Singapore White Spaces Pilot Group supports Singapore's efforts to adopt TV white spaces for consumer and business services and applications.
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The Invisible Driver
Researchers have shown that full-size remote control cars can be driven safely on public roads, and predict the technology will reach roads in the next decade.
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Sensor Knows When You're Lying Through Your Teeth
The mouth could provide doctors with information on a variety of health issues with the aid of a sensor that sends data on mouth motion to a smartphone.
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Nasa's Curiosity Nearing First Anniversary on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars this week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life.
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Fbi Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal...
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The Future of Graphics and Gaming
See the best new ideas in computer graphics and interaction from last week’s Siggraph conference.
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Light Completely Stopped for a Record-breaking Minute
The fastest thing in the universe has come to a complete stop for a record-breaking minute. At full pelt, light would travel about 18 million kilometres in that...
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Gaming the System to Beat Rush-Hour Traffic
A computer scientist is applying humans' appreciation of incentives and friendly competition to improving rush-hour congestion.
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Networked Cars Are Coming, but Their Hacks Are Already Here
Concurrent with a new push for connected-vehicle technology to facilitate collision avoidance is an emphasis on its potential security vulnerabilities.
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Google's Data-Trove Dance
In 2011, Google Inc. Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page asked executives to develop a new, simplified privacy tool that would act as a kind of sliding scale...
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NSA Announces Winner of Its First Annual 'Science of Security Competition'
A research paper that was highlighted last year at an international symposium is the winner of the National Security Agency's first annual Science of Security (SoS)...
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As Machines Get Smarter, Evidence They Learn Like US
The brain performs its canonical task—learning—by tweaking its myriad connections according to a secret set of rules.
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