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The Quadriplegic Who Moved His Hand
Ian Burkhart was 19 and fearless and horsing around in the surf with friends on vacation in North Carolina’s Outer Banks when he mistimed a dive and a wave drove...
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Larry Page on Google's Many Arms
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.
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E-Voting Experiments End in Norway Amid Security Fears
Norway is ending trials of e-voting systems used in national and local elections.
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Computer Spots Rare Diseases in Family Photos
New software can learn to identify rare medical conditions by analyzing a face in a digital photograph.
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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn
It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn.
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Searching For Answers in Very Old Dna
As he puts it in the subtitle of his memoir, "Neanderthal Man," Svante Paabo goes in search of lost genomes.
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How Isis Is Winning the Online War For Iraq
As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) claimed control of Iraq's biggest oil refinery and akey border crossing between Iraq and Jordan—it lost a key...
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Internet Traffic Congestion Real, But Sporadic, Study Says
A new study suggests Internet congestion can be a problem, but it is often intermittent and temporary.
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Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.
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Brain Power
A "kick" during the World Cup opening ceremonies shows the progress of helping the paralyzed to move again.
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Massachusetts High Court Orders Suspect to Decrypt His Computers
Massachusetts' top court ruled, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, that a criminal suspect can be ordered to decrypt his seized computer.
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Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones
In a sweeping victory for privacy rights in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Wednesdayunanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones...
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The Quest For Ethical Algorithms
Imperial College Intelligent Systems and Networks Group deputy head Jeremy Pitt is working to endow algorithms with a sense of ethics.
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Big Broadcasters Vanquish Upstart Aereo at U.s. Supreme Court
Broadcast and cable TV are not dead yet.
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The Case That Might Cripple Facebook
An Irish judge has rendered a preliminary judgment that may have sweeping consequences for U.S. e-commerce firms.
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.s. Intelligence Agency Wants Brain-Like Algorithms For Complex Information Processing
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to develop technology that will enable computers to think like humans.
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Statistical Tricks Extract Sensitive Data From Encrypted Communications
Private information can be obtained from encrypted communications using a technique known as traffic analysis to find patterns in the data stream.
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Who's Your Daddy? Ucf Students Program Computer to Find Out
Researchers are developing a facial recognition program designed to rapidly match pictures of children with their biological parents.
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The Secret Formula to Successful Online Dating
Researchers have studied the behavior of 200,000 people on Chinese dating site Baihe.com to gain insight into how successful online matches are made.
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