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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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How Dry Is Texas? Smap, Txson Network Aim to Find Out
A new network of sensors in the bone-dry Texas hill country will produce detailed data on soil moisture—when there is any.
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Rice Engineering Students Create Real-Time 3D Radar System
An impulse-based radar for real-time three-dimensional imaging recently was awarded the top prize at Rice University's annual Engineering Design Showcase.
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Brain Technology Patents Soar As Companies Get Inside People's Heads
From ways to eavesdrop on brains and learn what advertisements excite consumers, to devices that alleviate depression, the number of U.S. patents awarded for "neurotechnology"...
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Crawling Toward a Wiser Web
Carrying out and storing a crawl of the Web requires access to significant storage and computing resources, but the Common Crawl Foundation is trying to change...
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Here's What a Cyber Warfare Arsenal Might Look Like
The Pentagon has made clear in recent weeks that cyber warfare is no longer just a futuristic threat—it is now a real one.
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The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.
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The Path to a Wearable Future Lies in Academia
Many of the innovative products now available to consumers are based on technologies developed in academic laboratories years ago.
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6 Big Data Projects to Aid Disaster Response
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency will fund research to transform disaster management with big data and analytics...
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Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Calls For Rapid Web Security Enhancements
The need for security was a recurring theme of the remarks made by Internet pioneer and former ACM president Vint Cerf at the National Press Club on Monday.
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.
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The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers
When Prabal Dutta accidentally drops a computer, nothing breaks.
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Microsoft Age-Estimate Tool Unleashed Real-Time Virality
Microsoft's Project Oxford has launched a range of machine-learning application programming interfaces in beta, including How-Old.net.
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Carnegie Mellon Project Divides Everyday Tasks, Expenses In Ways Scientifically Calculated to Make Everyone Happy
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a free website that leverages decades of research on how to divide things equitably without resentment.
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Tanja Lange Leads Multi-Million Euro Project to Protect Data Against Quantum Computers
Eindhoven University of Technology cryptology professor Tanja Lange is leading a European project to protect data against quantum computers.
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With Boxing Match, Video Piracy Battle Enters Latest Round: Mobile Apps
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night's big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives...
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To Invent the Future, You Must nderstand the Past
"You can't really understand what is going on now without understanding what came before."
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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The Cloud Is Dead. Long Live the Cloud
Inspired by the tech behind the digital currency Bitcoin, IBM and Samsung are rethinking how connected devices connect.
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