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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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U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016
The U.S. government's widespread data surveillance practices are likely to cost U.S. cloud computing and other technology companies more money than originally expected...
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Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink
In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...
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Brillo as an Underlying Operating System for Internet of Things
The announcement of Project Brillo was one of the highlight's of Google's recent I/O conference.
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Giving Physical Shape to Invisible Signals
When a newly renovated apartment in San Francisco went on the market earlier this year for roughly $8.5 million, its asking price included a somewhat unexpected...
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Falls of the Robots: Disaster Droids Struggle to Stay pright
It's a scenario straight out of a Hollywood movie.
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How the Country's Top Privacy Cop Is Trying to Protect Consumers in the Digital Age
As the digital economy has exploded, tech companies are collecting untold amounts of data on everyday Americans.
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America's Unwanted Ivy Leaguers Are Flocking to India
India's best and brightest students are being drawn back to their homeland, or not leaving in the first place, as the country's technology boom takes off.
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Daphne Koller on the Future of Online Education
Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller hopes her online education platform will expand globally.
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Quest For Buried Knowledge Continues With New Computer Software Tool
A new computer software tool will enable scholars to read the writings of ancient scrolls without having to unroll or open them.
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Korean robot Makers Walk Off With $2 Million Prize
A team of roboticists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claimed a $2 million prize on Saturday that was offered by a Pentagon research...
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Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?
Pim Koeslag designs and fabricates some of the world's most complicated mechanical timepieces.
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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The Emerging Science of Human Computation
A group of computer scientists, crowdsourcing pioneers, and visionaries has created a roadmap for research into human computation.
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Self-Programming Machines Next Phase of Computer Science: Wozniak
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said computers that learn in unsupervised ways and do not need to be told what to do in advance is the next phase of computer science...
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Disaster Droids Face Off in the DARPA Robotics Challenge
Final preparations are being made by 24 robotics teams about to compete for $3.5m (£2.3m) worth of prizes in a Pentagon-backed competition.
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Smart Microgrids to Help Data Centers, Farm Communities se Locally Produced Power
A team of researchers and students are working to develop smart power management technologies.
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Meet the New Generation of Robots For Manufacturing
A new generation of robots is on the way—smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable.
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Crispr, the Disruptor
Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab.
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How the End of Patriot Act Provisions Changes Nsa Surveillance
Thanks to resistance from Senator Rand Paul and other members of the Senate, the provisions of the USA Patriot Act that were used to justify the National Security...
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