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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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Future Science: sing 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Researchers are conducting experiments with CAVE2, a virtual world consisting of eight-foot-high screens and 72 stereoscopic LCD panels.
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When Will the Internet Reach Its Limit (and How Do We Stop It from Happening)?
The number of smartphones, tablets and other network-connected gadgets will outnumber humans by the end of the year.
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...
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Crowds Prowl Google Street View to Speed Road Repairs
Software developed by a team at the University of Maryland at College Park makes use of crowdsourcing to report road problems to local governments.
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Robots With Lift
Harvard University researchers have developed a soft robot that can leap up to one foot in the air using small explosions.
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.s.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps...
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New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash
The Pentagon sparked an uproar among troops and veterans when it revealed that a new high-level medal honoring drone pilots will rank above some traditional combat...
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Why Didn't We Know the Russian Meteor Was Coming?
Thomas Pynchon said it best, years before: "A screaming comes across the sky." Midmorning today, near the city of Chelyabinsk in western Siberia, a meteor came...
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The Drones of the Future May Build Skyscrapers
Drones can't just destroy, they can create.
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Self-Driving Car Given Uk Test Run at Oxford University
Oxford University researchers have developed a self-driving car that uses lasers and small cameras, rather than GPS, to direct the vehicle along regular routes. ...
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Hidden System Makes It Easier For Elderly People to Live at Home
A new assistive system to help senior citizens live at home embeds a tablet computer in the wall for centralized information access.
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Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex
Every summer, computer security experts get together in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEFCON, conferences that have earned notoriety for presentations demonstrating...
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In Cyberwar, Software Flaws Are a Hot Commodity
There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons...
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Nanoscale Chip Design Enables Future 'internet of Things'
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...
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Obama Order Gives Firms Cyberthreat Information
President Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday that promotes increased information sharing about cyberthreats between the government and private companies...
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3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products
While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...
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How 'bullet Time' Will Revolutionize Exascale Computing
A new method for compressing output data without losing its essential features in exascale computing is based on a Hollywood special effects technique.
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MIT Aids Human, Robot Cooperation With Cross-Training
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that enables robots to learn from switching roles with humans.
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The Browser Wars Go Mobile
When surfing the Web on a smartphone, most of us stick with the browser that came with our handset.
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