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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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What Can nite Liberals and Tea Partyers? The Nsa
Hoyt Sparks says he has no use for liberal Democrats and their "socialistic, Marxist, communist" ways.
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Palestinian Women Make Strides in High-Tech
Palestinian women are joining the high-tech industry, despite obstacles presented by the economy and traditional culture.
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The Last Places on Earth Without the Internet
It can be easy to forget what life was like before the Internet.
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Computer Scientist Looks For Deeper Meaning in Webcam Videos
A University of Kentucky professor is researching new ways to use computers to understand images.
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Nyc's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing
New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago.
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Last Call For Bad Calls
Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...
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Intel’s Sharp-Eyed Social Scientist
Genevieve Bell runs a skunk works of some 100 social scientists and designers who travel the globe, observing how people use technology in their homes and in public...
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Keeping Women in High-Tech Fields Is Big Challenge, Report Finds
A report found U.S. women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields are 45 percent more likely than their male peers to leave the industry within a year...
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Open Data vs. the Flood: How High-Tech Is Helping Venice Deal With High Tides
The Acqualta project in Venice, aims to engage citizens in an effort to monitor flooding in the city's canals using open data and sensor technology.
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Obama's Big Plan to Protect Businesses from Cyberattack
It's been a long time coming, and some experts say it isn't enough.
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Japan Sensor Will Let Diaper Say Baby Needs Changing
Diapers could enabled to notify parents when they need to change their baby, using a disposable organic sensor developed by University of Tokyo professors.
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Lampsonfest: Celebrating a Computing Legend
Yesterday, at Microsoft Research New England, colleagues were to gather to pay tribute to Butler Lampson, 1992 recipient of the ACM A.M Turing Award.
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Everything We Know About How the Nsa Tracks People's Physical Location
Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept.
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Medicine Gets p Close and Personal
Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, Washington, likes to talk about what he calls P4 medicine: health care that is predictive...
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Inside the Google Earth Satellite Factory
Behind a long rectangular window, in a high white room tended by ghostly figures in masks and hats, a new satellite is taking shape.
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Groups Step Up Efforts to Develop More Female It Workers
The National Center for Women in Technology has partnered with the Million Women Mentors to boost female participation in the technology industry.
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Sochi: Our Tweeted Emotions Decrypted in Real Time
Researchers will use social media to track the emotions of people viewing the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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Baxter and the Second Machine Age
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century is not just the story of steam power, but steam started it all.
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The Growing Need to Recycle Electronics
e-Cycling allows reclamation of valuable materials, and helps prevent pollution.
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