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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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How to Get More Followers on Twitter
Researchers found that informational content attracts Twitter followers at a rate 30 times higher than content focused on the tweeter.
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pc Develops an Advanced Traffic Management System to Reduce Costs and Pollution
A new information system based on intelligent data processing is designed to improve the mobility management of people and vehicles.
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Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years
Los Alamos National Labs has been running a quantum Internet that can transmit perfectly secure messages for more than two years.
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Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke
Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?
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How Today's Sensors Could Make Tomorrow's Cars Safer
Driverless cars haven’t hit the roads yet, but computers are already helping to slow down or stop a car in situations when a crash is imminent.
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After an iPhone Is Snatched, a High-Speed Chase
The woman was talking on her iPhone, and never saw coming her induction into a large and growing subset of crime victims.
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How Facebook Designs the 'perfect Empty Vessel' For Your Mind
One day in March, I was sitting across from Facebook's design director, Kate Aronowitz, at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park when she told me, "It takes a lot of work...
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Emerging Protocol Can Help Manage the Internet of Things
The MQTT protocol for telemetry messaging could help address the significant challenge of enabling all types of smart devices to communicate with one another.
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Digital Tattoos, Mind-Reading Headphones: The Shape of Things to Come?
Forecasting future technology has never been easy. In the 1950s, scientists and technologists envisaged that by now the world would be free from disease, traversed...
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Intel's High-Performance, Low-Power Secret: The Haswell Soc
In the semiconductor world, integration is omnipresent, driven by Moore's Law. Integration reduces power and cost while increasing performance. The latest realization...
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New Chief at Intel Aims to Expand Chip Making
Brian M. Krzanich, who on Thursday was named Intel's next chief executive, knows he faces a hefty challenge when he takes over the world's biggest maker of semiconductors...
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When Will Smartglasses and Other Wearable Computers Hit the Mainstream?
Google has stoked our collective imagination via relentless promotion of its Google Glass wearable computer in recent months.
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Skinny Rfid Tags Could Soon Show Up Embedded in Paper
Two new developments in RFID research could pave the way for tags that are thinner, cheaper, and more versatile. Using new materials and cutting-edge laser fabrication...
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Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea.
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IBM Brings Augmented Reality, Robotics to Field Engineers
Researchers have developed a new system to deliver information and remote expertise to field engineers performing maintenance and repairs on critical equipment. ...
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Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream
Increasingly sophisticated brain computer interfaces might soon allow users to interact with smart devices using only their minds.
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Valuing Versatility
It's often said that we live in an age of increased specialization: physicians who treat just one ailment, scholars who study just one period, network administrators...
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Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream
Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers...
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Diamond Shows Promise For Quantum Internet
Today's Internet runs on linked silicon chips, but a future quantum version might be built from diamond crystals.
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