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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.
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The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers
When Prabal Dutta accidentally drops a computer, nothing breaks.
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To Invent the Future, You Must nderstand the Past
"You can't really understand what is going on now without understanding what came before."
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What Would You See in a Black Hole?
Something about a black hole just pulls you in. Sure, its gravity is so strong that not even light can elude its grasp. But, there's something else, something harder...
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the Dsl Internet Technology, Dies at 82
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...
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Ancient Dna Tells a New Human Story
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...
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Deep Learning Machine Solves the Cocktail Party Problem
The cocktail party effect is the ability to focus on a specific human voice while filtering out other voices or background noise.
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Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...
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Holograms Could Bring Videogame-Like Navigation to Your Car
There are plenty of ways to get directions in the car, but most have one big shortcoming.
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Nih Reiterates Ban on Editing Human Embryo Dna
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reaffirmed its ban on research that involves gene editing of human embryos. In a statement released on 29 April,...
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Microsoft Shows Hololens' Augmented Reality Is No Gimmick
Microsoft demonstrated how far its augmented-reality HoloLens wonderland project has come.
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IBM Brings Quantum Computing a Step Closer
Researchers at IBM have stitched together a prototype circuit that could become the basis of quantum computers a decade hence.
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Is the niverse a Hologram?
At first glance, there is not the slightest doubt: to us, the universe looks three dimensional. But one of the most fruitful theories of theoretical physics in...
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You Can't Backdoor a Platform
According to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, encryption should come with a backdoor.
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Smartphone Secrets May Be Better Than a Password
Before you read this story, try to answer the following question: Who was the first person to text you today?
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Mercury Mission Set to End with Dramatic Crash
On 30 April, after more than four years in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER probe will plunge to its doom.
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Researchers Plan to Demonstrate a Wireless Car Hack This Summer
A note of caution to anyone who works on the security team of a major automobile manufacturer: Don't plan your summer vacation just yet.
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Prosthetics That Can Feel, Thanks to the Science of Touch
In 2012, Pennsylvania native Jan Scheuermann ate the most satisfying bite of chocolate of her life.
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