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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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The Secret Alliance That Could Give the Web a Massive Speed Boost
WebAssembly is a joint project among Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple to create a new Internet platform.
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Ancient American Genome Rekindles Legal Row
The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to Native American tribes that have for...
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Eight Spacecraft that Have Been Rescued, Resurrected, and Repurposed
Earlier this week, the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander finally woke up after a seven-month snooze.
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Beware the Listening Machines
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.
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App Makes Virtual Clothes Fitting Faster
University of Technology, Sydney researchers are developing a smartphone application to help online clothes shoppers get the purchase right the first time.
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Internet2 Implements Open Source Sdn Networking Os
A software defined networking operating system developed by the ONOS project is now up and running on a "virtual slice" of Internet2.
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A Kaist Research Team Develops the First Flexible Phase-Change Random Access Memory
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) researchers say they have developed the first flexible phase change random access memory.
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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire
Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.
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Samsung, LG Smartwatches Give p Personal Data to Researchers
Researchers have shown they can extract personal information from two smartwatches because none of the data is encrypted.
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Dissolving Titan
Saturn's moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon’s...
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President Obama: The Fast Company Interview
In an interview, U.S. President Barack Obama discusses "digital teams" of technologists he brought in to improve technology across the executive branch of government...
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Alabama Researcher Devises a Way to Harness nused Iot Power
Researchers have developed a computer architecture that can harness the unused computer cycles generated by smart home devices.
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Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?
A multi-university team of researchers has demonstrated that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into changing employment levels.
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U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research
The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...
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Who Will Own the Robots?
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative."
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Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition
A central component of President Obama's effort to give consumers more control over how companies collect and share their most sensitive personal details has run...
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Argonne Scientists Announce First Room-Temperature Magnetic Skyrmion Bubbles
Researchers have developed a method for creating magnetic skyrmion bubbles at room temperature.
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Saturn Spacecraft to Buzz Icy Moon Dione June 16
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make a close flyby of Saturn's moon Dione on June 16, coming within 321 miles (516 kilometers) of the moon's surface.
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Centimeter-Long Origami Robot
At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, researchers presented a printable robot than can fold itself up from a flat sheet of plastic...
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