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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Msu Collaboration Aims to Recruit More Women Into Engineering, Computer Fields
A new program seeks to boost the number of women in computing and engineering programs.
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Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math
Are you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?
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Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...
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Twitter Can Tell Whether Your Community Is Happy or Not
Researchers recently released a study on whether a community's sense of happiness could be determined from communications on Twitter. The study demonstrates that...
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Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain
The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...
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A Digital Take on 'remembering the Alamo'
The Texas General Land Office is working with several Texas universities to preserve the Alamo through three-dimensional laser scanning and photogrammetry.
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IBM Taps Into Android Devices for Volunteer Computing Effort
Owners of Android-based smartphones and tablets can now "donate" surplus computing power from their devices to science.
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Software Employment Rises 45% in 10 Years, as Angst in Engineering Grows
IT employment has gone up and down over the past decade, but the only tech occupation that appears to have recovered to full employment is software developer, according...
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The Mooc That Roared
Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It's offering a new master's degree in computer...
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For Nsa Chief, Terrorist Threat Drives Passion to 'collect It All,' Observers Say
In late 2005, as Iraqi roadside bombings were nearing an all-time peak, the National Security Agency's newly appointed chief began pitching a radical plan for halting...
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World's Cheapest Computer Gets Millions Tinkering
The Raspberry Pi was designed to help children learn to code; nearly 1.5 million of the Linux-based devices have sold in 18 months.
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Chips That Mimic the Brain
A breakthrough in the effort to build an artificial brain involves using neuromorphic chips to incorporate complex cognitive abilities into electronic systems.
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To Create a Robot With Common Sense, Mimic a Toddler
A new robot is being designed to mimic the common sense of a three-year-old.
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Study: Commerce Department App Privacy Proposal Confuses Consumers
The terminology of the Commerce Department's "short-form notice" privacy proposal is too ambiguous and confusing to be adopted.
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F.T.C. Turns a Lens on Abusers of the Patent System
To its defenders, Intellectual Ventures is a revolutionary company unfairly viewed, in the words of its co-founder Peter N. Detkin, "as the poster child of everything...
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Nsa Surveillance Program Extended By Court, Intelligence Officials Say
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency's authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of millions of American cellphone customers...
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Education Tech: What's Trending?
Educators and industry experts will gather July 25 at the Education Technology Innovation Summit to discuss new ideas and products in education technology.
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Symantec: Google Glass Still Vulnerable to Wi-Fi Attack
Just days after Google said it had patched a QR code vulnerability affecting its Google Glass wearable computer, Symantec says it has found another vulnerability...
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'Huge Opportunities' for Harvesting Data Shown
Huge quantities of useful information are being created by Internet users, but much of it is owned by commercial companies or public agencies.
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