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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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Shopping Habits Reveal Personal Details in 'anonymized' Data
Details about where and when you use your credit card could help reveal your identity to data thieves—even if they don't know your name, address and other personal...
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Can Drones Hunt With Wolf Pack-Like Success? DARPA Thinks So
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to enable groups of drones to operate collaboratively under the supervision of a single human commander...
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Portable Mind-Reader Gives Voice to Locked-In People
You wake up in hospital unable to move, to speak, to twitch so much as an eyelid.
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The Technology that nmasks Your Hidden Emotion
Paul Ekman, perhaps the world's most famous face reader, fears he has created a monster.
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Charles H. Townes, Who Paved Way For the Laser in Daily Life, Dies at 99
Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure...
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Bitcoin Scams Steal at Least $11 Million in Virtual Deposits From nsuspecting Customers
Fraudulent schemes have scammed at least $11 million in Bitcoin deposits from unsuspecting cyber customers over the past four years, say researchers.
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What Does Privacy 'look' Like? Carnegie Mellon Project Seeks Drawings
Privacy Illustrated, a Carnegie Mellon University project, invited people to draw what privacy means to them and already has amassed hundreds of drawings.
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The Search Engine of the Future Will Be All-Seeing, All-Knowing 'watcher in the Sky'
Stefan Weitz, until recently senior director of search at Bing, observes the Internet has become much more massive since Google was conceived in the 1990s.
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In the Future, Your Touchscreens Will Touch You Back
You comfort your grieving friend online over chat, but you can't reach out and touch their shoulder.
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Ftc Says Internet-Connected Devices Pose Big Risks
Internet-connected devices present serious data security and privacy risks, according to a U.S. Federal Trade Commission report released this week.
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AI Will Not Kill s, Says Microsoft Research Chief
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.
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Virtual Dissection Method Could Reinvigorate Zoology
Last summer, researchers demonstrated that non-invasive imaging combined with a staining technique enables the fast comparison and study of earthworm species and...
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New Search Engine Lets sers Look For Relevant Results Faster
Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology believe they have developed technology that will make Web searches more efficient.
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New Programming Language For Fast Simulations
SINTEF researchers have developed a new language for faster programming and simulations.
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A Machine Can Learn to Identify Sign Languages
A team of researchers is working to train a computer program to quickly identify the sign language of signers.
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Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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Online Privacy: Regional Differences
How do the U.S., Europe, and Japan differ in their approaches to data protection — and what are they doing about it?
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Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
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