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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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Micro-Drones: The New Face of Cutting-Edge Warfare
Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) with uncanny navigation and real-time mapping capabilities could soon be zipping through indoor and outdoor spaces, running reconnaissance...
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Broader Horizons
ACM's Committee for Women in Computing (ACM-W) is widening its reach to involve women in industry as well as academia, including community college faculty and students...
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Advertising Gets Personal
Online behavioral advertising and sophisticated data aggregation have changed the face of advertising and put privacy in the crosshairs.
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Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet
Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government's investment in education and basic infrastructure...
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Russia's Top Cyber Sleuth Foils S Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals
It's early February in Cancun, Mexico. A group of 60 or so financial analysts, reporters, diplomats, and cybersecurity specialists shake off the previous night's...
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.k. Government Calls on Academia to Train Tomorrow's Cyber Security Experts
The U.K. government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has invited universities to apply for grants to run two new dedicated Centers for Doctoral...
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Study: Twitter Analysis Can Be Used to Detect Psychopathy
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University, the Online Privacy Foundation, and Kaggle recently invited computer scientists to develop models that can identify psychopathy...
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Apple Warms Up to Hackers, Plans Presentation at Black Hat
In the 15 years that computer hackers have gathered in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference, an event where unknowns can become stars and tech heavyweights are...
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Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device
Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones.
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Can Data Mining Stop the Killing?
Would Total Information Awareness have stopped James Eagan Holmes?
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One Course, 150,000 Students
MIT professor Anant Agarwal recently completed teaching Circuits and Electronics, the first course in MITx, a massive open online learning platform from MIT, which...
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Nsf Announces New Savi at Intersection of It, Disasters
U.S. and Japanese researchers will collaborate on developing fundamental advances in information technology to support disaster management under a new Science Across...
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Assistance Systems Help Out Distracted Drivers
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are changing the way we drive — and paving the way for cars that can drive themselves.
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Top Five 'earth as Art' Winners
During a span of 40 years, since 1972, the Landsat series of Earth observation satellites has become a vital reference worldwide for understanding scientific issues...
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Minister Stresses Iran's Ability to Confront All Spy Malwares
Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour announced that Iran has successfully confronted sophisticated spy malwares and thwarted...
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Gps Hijacking Catches Feds, Drone Makers Off Guard
On June 19, when University of Texas researchers successfully hijacked a drone by "spoofing" it— giving it bad GPS coordinates–they showed the Department of Homeland...
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Imagining Tomorrow's Computers Today
Intel principal engineer and futurist Brian David Johnson discusses his presentation at the recent Euroscience Open Forum on a future world of computers that develop...
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Would German-Style Apprenticeships Work in the .s.?
In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational...
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