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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Household Robots Move from Science Fiction to Reality
Rosie the Robot could finally be coming to your home. Willow Garage, a startup in Menlo Park, has designed a robot called the PR2 that calls to mind the Jetsons'...
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The Calm Before the Storm
Revelations of wholesale electronic fraud and massive data heists have become weekly, even daily affairs.
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An Open Secret: Drone Warfare In Pakistan
Drone warfare is now one of the most fundamental features of the U.S. battle against its enemies. Just don't ask anyone in the government to talk about it.
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How 9/11 Inspired a New Era of Robotics
When Robin Murphy saw the World Trade Center towers fall on September 11, she knew of an unexpected group that could help respond: robots.
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Science After 9/11: How Research Was Changed By the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
New work in forensics, biodefense and cyber security blossomed after the attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and in the skies over Pennsylvania, but increased...
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For Software Developers, A Bounty Of Opportunity
As people across the country suffer from long-term unemployment, the tech industry is experiencing a shortage of qualified workers. Particularly in software development...
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How Microsoft Researchers Might Invent a Holodeck
Deep inside Microsoft is the brain of a mad scientist.
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Airline Pilots Forgetting How to Fly? Computer Controls Blamed
Are airline pilots forgetting how to fly? As planes become ever more reliant on automation to navigate crowded skies, safety officials worry there will be more...
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Mining Electronic Records Yields Connections Between Diseases
Danish scientists have devised a new way to connect the dots between diseases.
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Cryptocurrency
The bitcoin, a virtual medium of exchange, could be a real alternative to government-issued money—but only if it survives hoarding by speculators.
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Animated or Real, Both Are Believable
It is still possible to distinguish between a living, breathing character in a movie and an animated one—but it is getting harder.
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Feds, Eff Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on Nsa Spying
A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits...
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Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth And Moon
On its way to the biggest planet in the solar system—Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft took time to capture its home planet and its natural satellite—the moon.
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Online Review Too Good To Be True? Sometimes It Is
Online reviews are many, but it's often difficult to tell the real ones from the fakes. To help sort the genuinely delighted customers from profit-driven praise...
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Csi: Tech to Automatically Identify the Bad Guy
Researchers hope a new system could automatically scan the hours of CCTV footage police have to comb through to identify suspects without invading privacy.
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Technology Is Our Friend... Except When It Isn't
The technology in question starts with "gigapixel" photography. Gigapixel photos are giant panoramas that themselves consist of hundreds of component mega-pixel...
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Increasing Fuel Efficiency With a Smartphone
Researchers at MIT and Princeton University have developed SignalGuru, a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on a car dashboard to collect information...
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Robot Teaches English as Second Language
Pasadena City College professor Ron Chang Lee has developed interactive robots that help students learn English as a second language.
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Replicating Human Errors to Test Network Security
University of Southern California researchers have developed a system for testing the security of computer networks by making computers simulate the type of human...
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