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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at niversities. Here's What Students Learn.
Last week, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh became one of the latest—and most prestigious—schools to partner with the National Security Agency on a program...
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Researchers Developing New Systems to Improve Voice Recognition
A new system can identify speaking voices even while whispering, speaking through various emotions, or talking with a stuffy nose.
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Mapping the Bitcoin Economy Could Reveal Users' Identities
An analysis of the public log of Bitcoin digital currency transactions could enable law enforcement to pinpoint user identities.
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Team Attempts to Restore Communications
Ground controllers have been unable to communicate with NASA's long-lived Deep Impact spacecraft.
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...
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The Nba Will Now Track Every Player's Movements
The National Basketball Association announced a contract with sports information company Stats to install player-tracking camera systems in every arena beginning...
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The New Era of Toy Robotics
In olden times, the most an ambitious young tinkerer could hope for in a toy was to be able to stick one funny-shaped piece onto another. Kids built airplanes with...
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md Engineering Group on Cutting Edge in Car Safety
Researchers have developed programming that will give drivers instant information on what lies ahead of them on the road.
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Beyond Passwords: New Tools to Identify Humans
As everything around us becomes connected to the Internet, from cars to thermometers to the stuff inside our mobile phones, technologists are confronting a tough...
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A Peek nder the Hood at the Brains of Self-Driving Cars
What car maker today doesn't seem to have an autonomous car bumbling around its test lot?
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Why Bluetooth se Is On the Rise
Bluetooth has been with us for around 15 years. Named after Denmark's King Harald "Bluetooth" Blatand, who reigned in the first century AD, it is a technology that...
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Can You Beat This Machine at Angry Birds?
A new artificial intelligence agent is capable of playing Angry Birds independently.
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Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.
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The Smoke Alarm in Your Pocket and Other Winning Apps
One of the winners of Australia's Apps4Broadband competition is a Web-based app that enables tutors to teach students remotely.
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The Big Data Employment Boom
Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector.
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How the N.S.A Cracked the Web
It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications.
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This Augmented-Reality Sandbox Turns Dirt Into a i
We've seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks...
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Huge Botnet Found sing Tor Network For Communications
In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA's domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a...
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Older Brains Benefit From Video Game
University of California, San Francisco scientists found that people between the ages of 60 and 85 who played a videogame showed improved cognitive controls and...
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