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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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Monitoring America
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans,...
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The Clock Is Ticking on Encryption
Today's secure cipher-text may be tomorrow's open book.
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Sun's Gravity Could Be Tapped to Call E.t.
Since massive stars cause light to bend, focal points may be found.
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Virtual Spheres Speed Up Skimming Through Mobile Video
With more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute, finding the right video without downloading it first is difficult. And video searching on mobile...
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Raising a Botnet in Captivity
Researchers created their own, imprisoned, network of zombie computers to better learn how to take down those at large on the Internet.
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'Synthetic Biology' Holds Promise, But Vigilance Needed
Far more promise than peril lurks in "synthetic biology," the emerging technology of man-made life, a presidential panel reports yesterday.
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Congress Hears Wikileaks Is 'fundamentally Different' From Media
The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, if it decides to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...
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Tracking Trick Shows the Web Where You Are
A new technique from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley could be used to target advertising to users' surroundings without their knowledge.
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Word-Wide Web Launches
New Google database puts centuries of cultural trends in reach of linguists.
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To Attract the Next Google, the City Seeks a New College
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are...
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Obama Administration Calls For 'privacy Bill of Rights'
The Obama administration released recommendations Thursday to better protect consumer privacy on the Internet, creating baseline guidelines for how companies...
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What Social Networks Reveal About Interaction
Social network systems can reveal insights into how groups of people can efficiently analyze, filter, and use information to harness the wisdom of the crowd, according...
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U.s. Tries to Build Case For Conspiracy By Wikileaks
Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents...
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Google Goes to the Cloud For New Idea in Pc System
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers...
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10 Ways a Digital Big Brother Can Be Good For You
The opening passage from George Orwell's "1984" depicts a guy hustling up a stairwell that's plastered with giant posters of a man's face staring at him.
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Appeals Court Holds Email Privacy Protected By Fourth Amendment
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search...
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WikiLeaks Reveals Everybody's Christmas List: The World Wants Drones
Black Friday has passed, but the holidays are upon us and shopping days are increasingly few. Having a hard time finding the perfect gift for that tiny emirate...
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Life Goes Online After Death with 'memory Boxes'
The death of a close, elderly relative can often mean a sombre weekend or two going through old things, sorting through photographs, donating old clothes to charity...
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I.b.m. Supercomputer 'watson' to Challenge 'jeopardy' Stars
An I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz...
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