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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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New N.s.a. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...
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Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments se to Hijack Phones
A study of tools used by law enforcment and intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance on computer and mobile phone users revealed a wide range of functions. ...
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The Great Salmon Run Algorithm
Researchers say a new algorithm based on the survival trials faced by salmon swimming upstream to spawn can help them find the optimal solution to a given problem...
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Ray Kurzweil Says He's Breathing Intelligence Into Google Search
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...
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Make Robots seful By Teaching Them to Talk Like S
When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him.
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Larry Page on Google's Many Arms
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.
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E-Voting Experiments End in Norway Amid Security Fears
Norway is ending trials of e-voting systems used in national and local elections.
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How to Make Smart Watches Not Worth Stealing
A prototype device can identify someone by measuring the electrical resistance of tissues within the person's wrist.
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Computer Spots Rare Diseases in Family Photos
New software can learn to identify rare medical conditions by analyzing a face in a digital photograph.
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Goosebump Sensor Developed By Korean Research Team
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology researchers have developed a sensor that can measure goosebumps on the human body in real time.
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Searching For Answers in Very Old Dna
As he puts it in the subtitle of his memoir, "Neanderthal Man," Svante Paabo goes in search of lost genomes.
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Big Data Meets Big Science
Next-generation scientific instruments are forcing researchers to question the limits of massively parallel computing.
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Science Dmz: Faster, More Secure High-Performance Computing
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service is planning to award a contract for the construction of a Science DMZ network.
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Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.
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Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones
In a sweeping victory for privacy rights in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Wednesdayunanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones...
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Computer Spots Rare Diseases in Family Photos
Doctors faced with the tricky task of spotting rare genetic diseases in children may soon be asking parents to email their family photos.
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Who's Your Daddy? Ucf Students Program Computer to Find Out
Researchers are developing a facial recognition program designed to rapidly match pictures of children with their biological parents.
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The Secret Formula to Successful Online Dating
Researchers have studied the behavior of 200,000 people on Chinese dating site Baihe.com to gain insight into how successful online matches are made.
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Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough
Modern computers are not unlike the looms of the industrial revolution: They follow programmed instructions to weave intricate patterns.
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