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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 Your Metadata Says About You
As recently as a few weeks ago, "metadata" was an obscure term known mainly to techies and academics.
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Future Cops: How Technology Is Set to Change Policing
The sci-fi vision of police officers rushing to the scene of a crime before any crime has even been committed may be rather far-fetched but technology is increasingly...
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Big Data Spells Trouble For Consumer Privacy
Matt Valentine, head of Microsoft's enterprise solutions for Hong Kong, shares a key piece of advice with his five- and seven-year-old children: when it comes to...
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Douglas Engelbart, 1925 – 2013
Douglas Engelbart, creator of the computer mouse, died last week at his home in Atherton, CA.
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Y No Go Viral: The Emerging Science of Memes
Scientists are beginning to study how memes are created, which ones fail, and how certain memes go viral.
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Technology Workers Are Young (really Young)
Technology industry employees are significantly younger, on average, than those in the workforce overall.
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Why the Airline Industry Needs Another Data Revolution
Over the years, airline travel has been a prime testbed for advanced computing and data tools.
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In Worldwide Surveillance Age, U.s. Has Big Edge
The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA makes one thing clear: The United States' central role in developing the Internet and hosting its most powerful players has...
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The Last Survivors of the End of the World
In 2 billion years' time, life on Earth will be confined to pockets of liquid water deep underground, according to PhD astrobiologist Jack O'Malley James of the...
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Colleges Work to Retain Women in STEM Majors
Higher education institutions are working to encourage women to pursue majors in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Pruning the Power Grid
A new algorithm identifies the most dangerous pairs of failures among the millions of possible failures in a power grid.
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Move Over Messi, Here Come the Robots
More than 1,000 soccer-playing robots from 40 countries are competing against each other in the RoboCup soccer tournament.
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What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter
In the summer of 2011, while he was fighting an indictment for alleged computer crimes, Aaron Swartz, an information activist, read Kafka’s "The Trial" and ...
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Computer Models Figure Out Sickle Cell Crisis
Researchers have used computing models to show how different types of red blood cells interact to cause sickle cell crisis.
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Artificial Intellience in Mental Healthcare
The mental healthcare field is seeking to use artificial intelligent agents to provide training, consultation, and treatment services.
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Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps For First Time Ever, Feds Say
For the first time, encryption is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps, U.S. officials said Friday.
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Detroit, Embracing New Auto Technologies, Seeks App Builders
The increasing use of computer technologies in automobiles has turned Detroit into a growing center for information technology employment.
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Bitcoin Draws Attention of California Regulators
Even the state of California can't quite figure out what the bitcoin Internet currency phenomenon is all about—or whether it's legal in California.
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New System ses Low-Power Wi-Fi Signal to Track Moving Humans—even Behind Walls
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects.
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