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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Organic Synthesis: The Robo-Chemist
In faded photographs from the 1960s, organic-chemistry laboratories look like an alchemist's paradise.
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Communication-Optimal Algorithms For Contracting Distributed Tensors
A new framework derives algorithms for distributed contraction of arbitrary dimensional tensors on the IBM Blue Gene/Q Mira supercomputer.
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Penn Researchers Develop Technology to Improve Computer Networks
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed technology that helps make computer networks run more efficiently.
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Wirelessly Charged Microchip Opens Doors Into 'electroceutical' Devices
A Stanford University project uncovered a technique for wirelessly charging tiny devices implanted in the human body to treat illness and alleviate pain.
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Rosetta Arrives at Comet Destination
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA's Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System...
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Watch This Wireless Hack Pop a Car's Locks in Minutes
Shims and coat hangers are the clumsy tools of last century's car burglars.
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Beyond GPS: Five Next-Generation Technologies
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is currently running five programs to improve civilian and military GPS navigation technology.
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10 Technologies That Will Transform Pcs in 2015 and Beyond
There is much to get excited about computers when you consider all the things that go into PCs to make them faster, lighter, more powerful, and more convenient...
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Experimental Software Allows 3D Object Manipulation in 2d Photos
The scene in Blade Runner is famous: taking a grainy photo, Rick Deckard zooms, enhances and moves around corners just as you would a 3D space.
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Fiendish Million-Dollar Proof Eludes Mathematicians
Is a solution to one of the most important, beautiful and potentially lucrative problems in mathematics right around the corner?
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Rosetta Spacecraft Set For nprecedented Close Study of a Comet
After 10 years and four billion miles, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will arrive at its destination on Wednesday for the first extended, close...
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Twitter Bots Grow p and Take On the World
On 18 July, someone in the Russian government edited Wikipedia.
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Nasa Mars Rover Curiosity Nears Mountain-Base Outcrop
As it approaches the second anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is also approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount...
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Security Secrets, Dated but Real
Was the National Cryptologic Museum designed using a code of some kind?
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New Protection Scheme Makes Weak Passwords Virtually Uncrackable
PolyPasswordHasher is a new open source password protection scheme that could help organizations better protect passwords.
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Study: Software Developers Starting to Write For Internet of Things
A new study found about 40 percent of 1,400 software developers worldwide are writing applications for Internet of Things-connected devices or intend to do so soon...
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Robot 'learns to Keep Going With Broken Leg'
Scientists used a methodology modeled on the behaviors of injured animals to help a six-legged robot relearn how to walk once one or more of its legs were damaged...
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A Smart Wristband For Nocturnal Cyclists
The "Intelligent Blinker," a smart illuminating wristband developed by five doctoral students, could make it safer for cyclists to ride at night in big cities.
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Where Tech Is Taking s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.
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