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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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White House Says Supercomputing 'arms Race' Could Prove Costly
Looks for better ways to make sure supercomputers "address our current national priorities."
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Gadgets Bring New Opportunities For Hackers
Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with...
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Report Strengthens Suspicions That Stuxnet Sabotaged Iran
A new report appears to add fuel to suspicions that the Stuxnet superworm was responsible for sabotaging centrifuges at a uranium-enrichment plant in Iran.
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Will Feds Mandate Internet Routing Security?
Resource Public Key Infrastructure developed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allows network operators to verify that they have the ability to route traffic...
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Pentagon Wants to Give Troops Terminator Vision
No more will soldiers' vision be limited to the socket-embedded spheres that God intended. The Pentagon now wants troops to see dangers lurking behind them in...
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Microsoft Said to Be nveiling Windows For Arm Chips
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will announce a version of its Windows computer operating system that runs on ARM Holdings Plc technology...
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FCC Approves Net-Neutrality Rules
The U.S. FCC passed net neutrality regulations that require Internet service providers to treat all Web content equally. However, they do not extend to wireless...
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Email Gets an Instant Makeover
Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using email.
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In Ages 25 to 29, Half in .s. Have a Cell Phone, but No Landline
In a first for any age group, more than half of Americans who are 25 to 29 years old live in households with cell phones but no traditional landline telephones...
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India's Elephantine Effort
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
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The Touchy Subject of Haptics
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
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Augmented Gps Could Transmit Emergency Information Around U.s.
University of Rhode Island professor Peter Swaszek has modified a global positioning system so that it can be used to concurrently transmit emergency messages and...
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The Brainy Learning Algorithms of Numenta
How the inventor of the PalmPilot studied the workings of the human brain to help companies turn a deluge of data into business intelligence.
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Web Giants Get Bigger, Location Takes Off
The easiest way to sum up the Web in 2010 is that it was a year of growth. The big got bigger and smaller companies came out of the woodwork with new plays on...
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Your Apps Are Watching You
A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users.
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Word Lens: Augmented Reality App Translates Street Signs Instantly
Word Lens for the iPhone is one of the most amazing apps we have ever seen. Take a look at this video, but put down any hot liquids first.
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For Software Developers, More Speed and Mobility
Northeastern University researchers have developed a program that enables software developers to save their work and relaunch the project instantly from another...
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Jason: Science of Cyber Security Needs More Work
The JASON independent scientific advisory panel has produced a report on cyber security for the U.S. Department of Defense that says a fundamental understanding...
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Monitoring America
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans,...
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