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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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War of the Worlds: When Science, Politics Collide
Roger Cone is a microbiologist, not a politician. He struggles with a basic truth: For all the scientific acceptance of evolution, many Americans simply don't believe...
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Security Researcher nearths Plans For Iran's Halal Internet
Iran appears to have recently published a Persian-language "Request for Information" for an even-more filtered and monitored version of the Internet than what presently...
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Digitally Possessed
Virtual possessions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. How we think about them and deal with them is changing the way we think and interact...
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A Workshop Revival
The success of Germany's Dagstuhl Seminars has inspired a proliferation of Dagstuhl-like venues, especially in India.
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Demand For Linux Skills Sets a New Record This Month
People with Linux skills and experience have a good chance of finding a Linux job, or landing a better position.
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Network Science Reveals the Cities That Lead the World's Music Listening Habits
Clique Research Cluster scientists recently analyzed data from Last.fm, a social Web site for music, to determine which cities set the world's listening trends.
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Data Centers in Va. and Elsewhere Have Major Carbon Footprint, Report Says
Data centers and mobile telecommunications networks use more than 623 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually, and a 2008 study found that the IT sector...
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Programming Project Comes to Primary Schools
A volunteer project in the United Kingdom is writing session plans for teaching the basics of computer programming to children between the ages of 10 and 11.
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Tina Seelig
Stanford University’s Technology Ventures leader discusses tools to enhance creativity, how entrepreneurs can create ingenious products more efficiently, and ways...
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Secret Computer Code Threatens Science
Modern science relies upon researchers sharing their work so that their peers can check and verify success or failure.
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The Technology That Allowed the Titanic Survivors to Survive
More than 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, but more than 700 survived. Those who did owed their escape to the newest communications technology of...
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Web Freedom Faces Geatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to...
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ndergrad Computer Science Enrollments Rise For Fourth Straight Year
The number of undergraduate students enrolled in computer science programs rose 9.6 percent in the 2011-12 school year, the fourth consecutive annual increase,...
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Geek Chic: 'Brogrammer?' Now, That's Hot
The image of the geeky techie is fading in real life, thanks to the legacy of industry giants such as Apple founder Steve Jobs and the increasing dependence of...
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Iran Moving Ahead with Plans for National Intranet
Iran topped a recent list of repressive regimes that most aggressively restrict Internet freedom. The list, published by Reporters Without Borders, is a part of...
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Mobile Apps Reach Internet Tipping Point
June 2011 appears to be the first time people in the U.S. spent more time online with apps than with the Web.
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Stanford Study to Try Cold Cash and Social Game to Relieve Rush Hour Traffic
Stanford University's Capri project aims to motivate people to avoid rush hour traffic by offering a chance at a large reward instead of a guaranteed small payout...
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Robotic Design and Production as Easy as 1-2-3
Researchers at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania are developing technology that could make...
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