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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Password in a Heartbeat
A new, secure method may dramatically cut the risk that an implanted medical device could be altered remotely without authorization.
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Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data
The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only U.S...
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Wi-Fi Sniffing Lets Researchers Take Social Snapshots of Crowds
Researchers have used Wi-Fi probe requests from smartphones to take a social snapshot of large gatherings of people.
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Better Thinking Tools
A new book calls for human-computer interfaces that better support thinking and learning.
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Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg sing Thought Alone
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...
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How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets
Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has evolved into a premier observatory for an endeavor not envisioned in its original design...
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Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone interstellar.
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Internet Archaeologists Reconstruct Lost Web Pages
Researchers recently embarked on an effort to reconstruct deleted social media posts and resources, in part from the clues they leave behind on the web.
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New Computer Program Redefines Interview Preparation
My Automated Conversation Coach is a new interactive program designed to strengthen users' social skills, especially as they pertain to conversations.
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Military Lags in Push For Robotic Ground Vehicles
While private companies are moving forward with self-driving vehicles, the U.S. military has been slow to deploy the technology.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
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Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion.
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Ready, Aim . . . Puff?
New 3D haptic technologies let users touch and feel virtual objects.
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Empty F-16 Jet Tested By Boeing and .s. Air Force
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones.
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How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer
The BlackBerry melodrama may finally be coming to a close.
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Encrypted Heartbeats Keep Hackers from Medical Implants
Rice University researchers have found a solution to the potential for hacking an implanted defibrillator.
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Teardown Shows Iphone 5s Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 For the 5c
New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart.
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Utilities Try to Learn From Smart Meters
Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade.
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