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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computer Scientists' App Measures Our Online Footprints
A new app can assess how well someone's online persona matches their true nature.
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Document Reveals Growth of Cyberwarfare Between the .S. and Iran
A newly disclosed National Security Agency document illustrates the striking acceleration of the use of cyberweapons by the United States and Iran against eachnuclear...
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Social Network Analysis Privacy Tackled
Pennsylvania State University researchers are researching ways to maintain privacy on social networks.
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Polymers Brighten Hopes For Visible Light Communication
Today nearly all computers, tablets, and cell phones have Wi-Fi capabilities, receiving and transmitting data over a range of radio frequencies.
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Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from...
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Poor Decision-Making Can Lead to Cybersecurity Breaches
Michigan State University professor Rick Walsh is studying the reasoning process behind the decisions people make that lead to computer security breaches.
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Spies Can Track You Just By Watching Your Phone's Power se
A new paper from a team of researchers found it is possible to determine an Android phone's location and movement by monitoring and analyzing its power consumption...
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Secrets Become History: Edward Snowden in Citizenfour Wins Documentary Oscar
Citizenfour is filmmaker Laura Poitras' account of the first meetings between herself, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden.
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What 'the Imitation Game' Didn't Tell You About Turing's Greatest Triumph
Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea-time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute...
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Beijing Subway Swipe Data Betrays Social Class
Beijing is an enormous city, sprawling over an area 10 times larger than Greater London.
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Spies Can Track You Just By Watching Your Phone's Power se
Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal...
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Is Your Toaster a Silent Recruit in a 'thingbot' Army?
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.
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How a Wedding Engagement Changes Twitter Feeds
A Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has studied engagement on social media, focusing on the phases people experience as they transition from singles to...
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Patterns in Large Data Show How Information Travels
Umea University researchers have found an analysis of how people edit content on Wikipedia can reveal what matters to them and with whom they have most in common...
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Can an Led-Filled "robot Garden" Make Coding More Accessible?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say their new tablet-operated system serves as a visual embodiment of their latest work in distributed computing...
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A 'flickr-Ing' View of the World, in 4-D
The Scene Chronology system enables an observer to navigate a virtual 3D space while using a slider control to move forward and backward in time.
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The Great Sim Heist
American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect...
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Magic Leap
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.
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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.
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