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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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What a Dinosaur's Mating Scream Sounds Like
Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy...
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This Little 3D Printed Robot Cracks Combination Locks in 30 Seconds
Careful what you leave in your lockers, high school students and gym-goers.
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Brain Technology Patents Soar As Companies Get Inside People's Heads
From ways to eavesdrop on brains and learn what advertisements excite consumers, to devices that alleviate depression, the number of U.S. patents awarded for "neurotechnology"...
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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With Boxing Match, Video Piracy Battle Enters Latest Round: Mobile Apps
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night's big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives...
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To Invent the Future, You Must nderstand the Past
"You can't really understand what is going on now without understanding what came before."
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Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the Dsl Internet Technology, Dies at 82
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...
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Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...
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Holograms Could Bring Videogame-Like Navigation to Your Car
There are plenty of ways to get directions in the car, but most have one big shortcoming.
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Microsoft Shows Hololens' Augmented Reality Is No Gimmick
Microsoft demonstrated how far its augmented-reality HoloLens wonderland project has come.
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One Way to Reduce Email Stress: Re-Invent the Mailing List
Researchers at MIT CSAIL have developed a prototype system called Murmur that they hope will improve the experience of using email mailing lists by incorporating...
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You Can't Backdoor a Platform
According to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, encryption should come with a backdoor.
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Smartphone Secrets May Be Better Than a Password
Before you read this story, try to answer the following question: Who was the first person to text you today?
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Prosthetics That Can Feel, Thanks to the Science of Touch
In 2012, Pennsylvania native Jan Scheuermann ate the most satisfying bite of chocolate of her life.
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Project Elysium Wants to se Vr to Revive Deceased Loved Ones
How far is too far when it comes to pushing the boundaries of virtual reality?
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Should Law Enforcement Have the Ability to Access Encrypted Communications?
People's distress over the privacy of their communications has never been more acute. Whether the fear is over U.S. surveillance or breaches by hackers of unknown...
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Is 'Good Enough' Computing Good Enough?
The energy-accuracy trade-off in approximate computing.
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Putting the Data Science Into Journalism
News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify...
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