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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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Sandia Hosts Annual Robot Rodeo
The Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise draws bomb squad teams to see who can most effectively use robots to defuse dangerous situations.
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Web's Reach Binds N.s.a. and Silicon Valley Leaders
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter, or a similar Silicon Valley concern...
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A Detailed 3-D Atlas of a Human Brain
BigBrain is an electronic model that will enable scientists to explore the anatomy of a single brain in far greater detail than previously possible.
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Sizing p Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet
In his young career, Jeffrey Hammerbacher has been a scout on the frontiers of the data economy.
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Where Rich People Live (AKA Maps of iPhone Use)
Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop.
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How Smart Technology Could Change Public Transit
Ryerson University professor Joseph Chow is working to improve Canada's urban transportation systems using data analysis and mobile computing.
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Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...
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NASA Issues Grand Challenge, Calls for Public, Scientific Help in Tracking Threatening Asteroids
NASA announced two programs that call on organizations around the world to help spot, track, and possibly alter the direction of asteroids headed for Earth.
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A New Era For Signatures
The market for e-signature software and services is poised for dramatic growth.
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.s. and Russia Sign Pact to Create Communication Link on Cybersecurity
The United States and Russia have agreed to use real-time communications about national security incidents to lower the risk of conflict in cyberspace.
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Mathematical Algorithms Cut Train Delays
New software is reducing delays and waiting times for commuters using railways in European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, and Greece.
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Nasa Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.
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The Limitations Of Crowdsourcing: On The Hunt For The Boston Bombers
Crowdsourcing demonstrated some of its limitations after the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Don't Hurt the Web With Rushed Intellectual Property Laws, rges Internet Society
The Internet Society hopes to get as many different voices as possible involved in bringing intellectual property policies in line with leading online platforms...
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Danger Maps Backed By Alibaba Pinpoint Chinese Pollution
Danger Maps, a crowdsourced mapping project, is helping users locate China's high pollution areas.
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Google to Use Balloons to Provide Free Internet Access to Remote or Poor Areas
Google plans to provide free Internet access to disaster-stricken, rural, or poor areas using giant helium balloons that beam Wi-Fi signals to the ground below. ...
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Phones Leave a Telltale Trail
The April robbery at the Cartier store in Chevy Chase, Md., was brazen and quick.
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