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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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Researchers Propose Way to Thwart Fraudulent Digital Certificates
Security researchers Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin say an extension to the transport layer security protocol could help address spoofing attacks on the Secure...
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Was Flame Virus that Invaded Iran's Computer Networks Made in sa?
As the United Nations and Iran warn that the newly discovered Flame computer virus may be the most potent weapon of its kind, U.S. computer security experts tell...
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Shots Fired, Pinpointed and Argued Over
At 7:22:07 p.m. on a recent Thursday, an electronic alarm went off in the soundproof control room of a suburban office building here.
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What Fearmongers Get Wrong About Cyberwarfare
Should we worry about cyberwarfare? Judging by excessively dramatic headlines in the media, very much so. Cyberwarfare, the argument goes, might make wars easier...
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Study Highlights How Twitter Is sed to Share Information After a Disaster
North Carolina State University researchers recently studied how people used Twitter following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan.
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Jonathan Ive: Simplicity Isn't Simple
"Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don't really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas...
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Researchers 'map' Android Malware Genome
North Carolina State University's Android Malware Genome Project is a malware-sharing initiative aimed at encouraging more collaboration on a new generation of...
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As Computing Changes, Hewlett-Packard Struggles to Follow
As the computer industry makes a radical shift to new modes of computing—in the cloud and on tablets and smartphones—Hewlett-Packard, a stalwart of the previous...
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Dark Shadows on Mars: Scene from Durable Nasa Rover
Like a tourist waiting for just the right lighting to snap a favorite shot during a stay at the Grand Canyon, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has used...
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High Court to Hear Warrantless Eavesdropping Challenge
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether to halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications...
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Online Friendships Light p Shadow Social Networks
Friending someone on Facebook makes an association public, but many relationships are never professed online.
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Telerobotics Offers Third Way For Space Exploration
Space exploration may have a new direction. In the 1960s, humans did the exploring but since the last moon landing in 1972, NASA's only explorers beyond low Earth...
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Browser Choice: A Thing of the Past?
Like to pick your browser? Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs.
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Microsoft's Fds Data-Sorter Crushes Hadoop
Microsoft researchers have developed the Flat Datacenter Storage approach, which features new sorting algorithms for the Bing search engine that beat a Hadoop cluster...
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Researchers Improve Fast-Moving Mobile Networks
A new method developed by researchers from North Carolina State University promises to improve the quality and efficiency of data transmission in mobile ad hoc...
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Data Mining Meets City Hall
Local and national governments are turning to open data to cut their costs, increase transparency and efficiency, and respond to the needs of citizens.
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Analyzing Medical Data
Electronic patient records contain a treasure trove of data, and researchers are using natural language processing technology to mine the structured data and free...
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Gps Loss Kicked Off Fatal Drone Crash
Hopes that a new breed of commercial drones can be easily integrated into civilian airspace have been dashed after it was revealed that the loss of the technology...
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