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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...
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Outdated Magnetic Strips: How U.s. Credit Card Security Lags
Criminals may have stolen information from 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target.
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Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential...
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Apps Make Sense of Social Media 'noise'
Researchers have developed two applications that could transform New Yorkers' social media activity into viable data.
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Biologically Inspired: How Neural Networks Are Finally Maturing
Neural networks modeled on the human brain have advanced over the past 20 years and are now making their way into mainstream computing.
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Never Forget a Face
A new algorithm makes subtle changes to various points on a face to make it more memorable without changing the subject's overall appearance.
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3D Technology From Film Industry Improves Rehabilitation For Stroke Patients
Researchers are using three-dimensional technology traditionally used in the film industry to analyze the everyday movements of stroke patients.
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Liftoff for ESA's Billion-Star Surveyor
Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way.
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Computers Can Be Hacked Using High-Frequency Sound
Using the microphones and speakers that come standard in many of today's laptop computers and mobile devices, hackers can secretly transmit and receive data using...
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Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50
NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...
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Cobol Still Integral to Government Systems
Many of the U.S. government's older mission-critical systems continue to run on a programming language developed in 1959.
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Ohio Builds Awesim Web-Based Supercomputing Apps
AweSim is a Web-based app store that will offer high-performance computing tools to small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses.
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The Geeks on the Front Lines
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...
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Gov’t Review Panel Suggests NSA Stop Holding Massive Phone Database
The panel set up by President Barack Obama to review widespread National Security Agency surveillance has produced a report in remarkably short order, and it contains...
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Judge: Nsa’s Collecting of Phone Records Is Probably Unconstitutional
A district court judge has ruled the U.S. National Security Agency's daily collection of virtually all Americans' phone records is almost certainly unconstitutional...
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Low-Power Tunneling Transistor For High-Performance Devices at Low Voltage
A new type of transistor could make possible fast and low-power computing devices for energy-constrained applications.
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That Thing Attached to Your Hand? It Might Be Doomed
Harvard University professor Woodward Yang says the personal technology market will experience business disruptions due to constant innovation.
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Keeping the Lights On
The Koopman Mode Analysis is an algorithm that could predict future instabilities in the power grid and make power outages a thing of the past.
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