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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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Last Command Sent to Planck Space Telescope
The Planck space telescope has been turned off after spending nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars...
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Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required For Gps Trackers
An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause...
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'running Battle': How Google Hopes to Beat Countries Cracking Down on Internet Freedom
Google hopes a little browser tool will help change the world.
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Future-Proof Encryption
Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.
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More Than a Mouse
Gesture and gaze are among the newest additions to a growing family of computer interfaces.
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Legal Issues with Robots
Who is responsible when property is damaged or someone is injured by an automated system? Existing product liability laws have not yet been tested in the context...
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The mbilical Link of Man to Robot
Atlas doesn't shrug. But he teeters, loses his grip, stutters, and staggers.
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Wall Street Banks Learn How to Survive in Staged Cyber Attack
In a staged simulation called Quantum Dawn 2, bank executives in charge of operations, technology, and crisis planning were tasked with detecting how a massive...
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Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov
HealthCare.gov, the Web site at the center of President Obama's federal health insurance exchange, has been plagued with problems since it opened for business Oct...
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...
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Credit Cards Under Pressure to Police Online Expression
Earlier this month, major credit card processors including MasterCard, Visa, and America Express announced they would stop processing payments to websites that...
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Huawei (yes, Huawei) Pushing For Global Security Standards
Remember that 1995 Alanis Morissette song, "Ironic?"
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Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow...
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Big Data Heralds Return of the Cray Supercomputer
"Big data" means big computers, and good news for Cray Inc.
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Managing the Deluge of 'big Data' From Space
For NASA and its dozens of missions, data pour in every day like rushing rivers.
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Graphics Chips Help Process Big Data Sets in Milliseconds
New software can use the graphics processors found on everyday computers to process torrents of data more quickly than is normally possible, opening up new ways...
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Electric Cars: Hidden Habits You Are Sharing with Firms
You wouldn't think that anybody would care about your drive to the supermarket to buy milk.
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Huawei Executive Talks About Cyber Security
As the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, Huawei plays a part in the technology industry's efforts to ensure network security...
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How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real
Despite a strong philosophical connection, computers and brains inhabit separate realms in research.
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