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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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Nasa Working on Tech to Take Humans to Mars – and Bring Them Back
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working on the technologies needed to take astronauts to Mars and back.
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Searching Big Data For 'digital Smoke Signals'
Development and aid programs are embracing the emerging field known as big data for development.
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Next Step in Facial Imaging
A new system capable of recording moving human images in three dimensions allows scientists to research facial movement.
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Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...
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Integrating Left Brain and Right, on a Computer
As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.
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N.s.a. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.s.
The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' email and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people...
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Congress Posts .s. Code in Xml
The U.S. House of Representatives has published all 51 titles of the U.S. Code in XML format for download, as part of the its open government initiative.
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If We Landed on Europa, What Would We Want to Know?
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter's moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA's Galileo...
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Museums Go Mobile
Mobile apps are redefining and reinventing the modern museum, ushering in a new era of interactivity and immersion.
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One Year Later, Nasa Looks Back at Curiosity Rover's Scariest Moment
For the Curiosity rover, it's just another day on Mars—but back on Earth, Tuesday was a day to look back at the $2.5 billion mission's first year, including a moment...
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Helping the Deaf to 'See' and 'Feel' Sound
Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...
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Simulating 1 Second of Real Brain Activity Takes 40 Minutes and 83k Processors
The world's fourth-fastest supercomputer needed 40 minutes to simulate one second of actual brain activity.
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Reliable Communication, nreliable Networks
Researchers recently unveiled a new framework for analyzing ad hoc networks.
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Former Nsa Chief on Latest Leaked Dragnet Spy Program: It's Real, and It's Spectacular
Does the NSA really operate a vast database that allows its analysts to sift through millions of records showing nearly everything a user does on the Internet,...
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The Five Scariest Hacks We Saw Last Week
If something can connect to a network, it can be hacked. Computers and phones are still popular targets, but increasingly so are cars, home security systems, TVs...
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Users of Hidden Net Advised to Ditch Windows
Legitimate users of the Tor anonymous browsing service are being advised to stop using Windows if they want to keep their identity hidden.
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Watch the Intricate Patterns of Global Infrastructure Emerge From Geocoded Tweets
A Northeastern University professor has created a global, navigable map of geo-tagged Twitter data.
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Stanford Engineers Receive Award to Improve Supercomputing and Solar Efficiency
A Stanford University researcher team will spend five years working on predicting the efficiency of a relatively untested, poorly understood method of harvesting...
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Google's Mini-Films Bring to Life the Early Days of Computing and the Internet
Google is sponsoring a series of mini-films about Britain's role in the early days of computers and the Internet.
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