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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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Meet The 'assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin.
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Wikimedia Foundation Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Wikipr
On October 21, the Wikimedia Foundation issued a statement from Sue Gardner, our executive director, condemning the black hat practice of paid advocacy editing...
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Tech Leaders Warn IT Talent Shortage Could Curb Hiring Plans
Although technology companies would like to increase hiring this year, they are concerned that a shortage of skilled workers will limit their ability to do so,...
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Stuxnet's Earlier Version Much More Powerful and Dangerous, New Analysis Finds
The version of the Stuxnet worm developed in 2005 was much stronger than the version used in a cyberattack against an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010.
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The Good Judgment Project
A team of researchers tries to determine the best approach to predicting world events by making a game out of it.
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The Brain's Crowdsourcing Software
Neuroscientists are discovering how groups of cells in the human brain cooperate to produce certain results, in a manner similar to crowdsourcing software.
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From data and information to knowledge: the Web of tomorrow
Dr. Serge Abiteboul recently presented the Royal Society Milner Award lecture before the Royal Society in London.
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Ccc Chair Susan Graham Is Named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate two new members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy.
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Every Step You Take
As small cameras with the ability to identify individuals proliferate in public places and data storage prices drop, privacy issues are growing increasingly complex...
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Google’s Vint Cerf Defines Internet of Things Challenges
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf said strong regulations are needed to address privacy and other challenges the Internet of Things presents...
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The Cloud Enables Hpc For All
Demand for high-performance computing is burgeoning and will continue to grow, with or without the requisite hardware.
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Smartphone Accelerometers Can Accurately Distinguish Between Different Motorized Transportation Modalities
Smartphone accelerometers can be used to distinguish between different motorized transportation modalities.
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The Secret Ingredient in Computational Creativity
IBM computer scientists are using big data on the Watson supercomputer to produce cooking results that could be called creative.
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Israel’s Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps
Israel's military is working to draw more women into its computer division.
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A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
It's a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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Shocker: Women Outnumber Men in This Year's Tech Hires
Women represented a majority of workers filling new technology jobs created through September of this year, for the first time in at least 10 years, according to...
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Nsa Leaks Could Inspire a Global Boom in Intrusive Surveillance
The recent leaks of U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs could inspire authoritarian governments in developing economies to boost NSA-style...
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Will Ibm's Watson sher in a New Era of Cognitive Computing?
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.
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