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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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nblinking Eyes Track Employees
A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse.
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Indoor Gps Is the Final Frontier of Personalized Navigation
Labs in the U.S. and U.K. are working on next-generation GPS that's so cool, it won't even use satellites.
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Columbia Engineering Team Finds Thousands of Secret Keys in Android Apps
Columbia University researchers have discovered a security problem in Google Play.
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Hackers Reverse-Engineer Nsa's Leaked Bugging Devices
Security researchers have reverse-engineered some of the wireless spying devices used by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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The Game Theory of Life
An insight borrowed from computer science suggests that evolution values both fitness and diversity.
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As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise
From driverless cars to delivery drones, a new generation of robots is about to revolutionize the way people work, drive and shop.
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Mind-Control: 'i Drove a Car with My Thoughts'
Henrik Matzke is in the driving seat of a car, poised to make a very unusual manoeuvre.
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nicode pdate Adds Emoji For Spiders, Chili Pepper, 'live Long and Prosper,' and More
The Unicode consortium has updated its character-encoding standard to include an additional 250 emoji.
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A New Safety System For City and School Buses Will Avoid Accidents Around Bus Stops
A new safety system for city and school buses detects the presence of pedestrians in the area surrounding a bus stop and warns the driver of dangerous conditions...
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Lighting on the Wall: World's Most Spectacular Video Projections
Sydney has had a radical makeover this summer, with the famous Opera House dressed in snakeskin and the underpass dotted with flowers to mark the city's Vivid festival...
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Mobile Apps Enable Professional Development
Continuing Education begins adapting to the smartphone.
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Facial Recognition Algorithms Improve
The accuracy of facial-recognition algorithms has improved over the past three years, according to a U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
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The Thought Experiment
I was about 15 minutes late for my first phone call with Jan Scheuermann.
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Losing the Key
In this age of rapid transformation, the house key has been surprisingly resistant to change.
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Software That Sees Employees, Not Outsiders, As the Real Threat
A growing number of companies are under pressure to protect sensitive data—and not just from hackers lurking outside the digital walls.
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Roads in the Future Will Need Data Standards as Well as Signs, Says Dot's Cio
Data standards will be needed to facilitate traffic flow in the future, and government officials, engineers, and automakers are considering how to implement the...
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Forget Touchscreens, 3D Holographic Displays Are Coming
As it stands, the touchscreen experience is confined to a flat, two-dimensional world.
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Mastercard Expects Big Growth from 'big Data' Insights
MasterCard Inc, the world's second-largest debit and credit card company, sees business booming from selling data to retailers, banks, and governments on spending...
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Meet Diesel, a Cute Dog and Organic Robot
A Labrador Retriever named Diesel has become a canine that functions as a Cyber-Physical Search and Rescue Dog through a high-tech vest.
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