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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Seven Strategies For Keeping Women in STEM Fields
The 28-member Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Working Group has developed a seven-point plan for achieving gender equity in science, technology,...
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Cars Could Learn to Drive Themselves from Human Behavior
Object recognition makes up one part of autonomous car technology, but then comes the question of what the car does in response to what it detects.
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New Keys to Data Security
An intelligent keyboard can tell who you are, and power itself from your typing.
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Tech Industry's Future Rooted in Blend of Design, Computer Science
Startups as well as large tech firms now realize their products need to be both visually appealing and deliver great user experiences.
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Developing Infrastructure For Data Sharing Around the World
Twice a year, members of the Research Data Alliance meet face-to-face at plenary meetings worldwide to coordinate activities and advance their efforts.
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Google's Eric Schmidt Downplays Fears Over Artificial Intelligence
Arguably the most alarming part of concerns over artificial intelligence's potential to end human civilization is the voices that are speaking out.
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A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It's Secret
A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials...
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Five Solar System Sights Nasa Should Visit
It's show time for NASA's planetary programme.
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So Sayeth Google
Search for "vaccines." At least within our filter bubble, the top item in Google's "In the news" section earlier this week was an anti-vax column about the "feds'...
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Pagerank Algorithm Reveals World's All-Time Top Soccer Team
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...
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Bbc Unveils Micro Bit Coding Device For Make It Digital Initiative
The BBC plans to offer a coding device to more than 1 million U.K. schoolchildren as part of its Make it Digital Initiative.
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Electrical Engineering Employment Declines Nearly 10%, but Developers up 12%
The number of people working as electrical engineers declined by 29,000 last year, even as the number of software developers increased by 132,000.
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Stanford Launches Smartphone App to Study Heart Health
A new iPhone app called MyHeart Counts enables researchers to collect data about users' physical activity and cardiac risk factors.
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On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number
If you like numbers, you will love March 14, 2015.
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DARPA to Pursue 'revolutionary' Privacy Tools
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program aimed at developing a system to keep personal and proprietary information private.
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Guaranteeing Online Anonymity
A new program can provide an accurate assessment of the level of online anonymity an individual user achieves.
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Researchers Develop "visual Turing Test"
Researchers have developed a "visual Turing Test" that can evaluate how well computers understand information taken from images.
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Watch What You Say
Mu'tah University researcher Ahmad Hassanat is developing a computerized system that can analyze the shapes human lips make as they produce different sounds.
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FCC Goes Public with Net Neutrality Rules For Governing Internet
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday finally spelled out how it will preserve the open Internet, publicly releasing a 400-page PDF that details its...
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