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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The 24-Hour Athenian Democracy
"I'm aware of your need to stay anonymous, but I have to be able to describe the scope of this movement. Can any of you tell me where you're typing from?"
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Iphone Games: Kids nknowingly Spend Real Money in 'smurf's Village'
"The Smurfs' Village," a game for the iPhone and other Apple gadgets, was released a month ago and quickly became the highest-grossing application in the iTunes...
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Apple to Tap Intel's Graphics For Future Macbooks
Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors...
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High Hopes, Hard Realities for India's $35 Tablet Computer
The Indian government won headlines around the world when it unveiled a prototype $35 tablet computer in July, but questions are now growing over whether the...
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Cyberattacks Are Retaliation for Pressure on WikiLeaks
A small army of activist hackers orchestrated a broad campaign of cyberattacks on Wednesday in support of the beleaguered antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks,...
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Wikileaks Armors Itself to Survive Cyberattacks
As its operations have come under increasing financial and political pressure, WikiLeaks has quietly bolstered its electronic defenses in an attempt to become...
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Suit to Snuff Out 'history Sniffing' Takes Aim at Tracking Web sers
A lawsuit filed last Friday for alleged use of "history sniffing," a method for surreptitiously detecting what websites a person has visited, is the latest to...
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In Historic Shift, Smartphones, Tablets to Overtake PCs
Shipments of smartphones, tablets and other app-enabled devices will overtake PC shipments in the next 18 months, an event that may signify the end of the PC-centric...
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.s. Chip Manufacturing in the Age of the Ipad
Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products like Apple's iPad and iPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs—mostly overseas. Is it possible...
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WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online After Cyberattacks
An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site late Thursday after a barrage of attacks by hackers threatened to...
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Faculty Innovators Explore Ipad se
A nine-year-old Faculty Innovators program at Western Illinois University strives to mentor faculty on integrating technology and teaching. This year, participating...
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Web Bug Reveals Browsing History
Porn sites are among the top users of a browser bug that reveals all the places people go online, finds research.
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c Breakthrough May Lead to Disposable E-Readers
University of Cincinnati researchers have developed a low-cost, paper-based, disposable e-reader. The researchers say the paper could be used as a flexible substrate...
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Out of Many, One In-Box
Nokia is developing a universal in-box that collects messages and updates from different smartphone applications and organizes them in one location so users can...
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Graduate Students Create Recyclable Laptop
Graduate students at Stanford University and Finland's Aalto University have created a prototype of a recyclable laptop that can be disassembled in about 30 seconds...
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Professors se Twitter in Foreign Language Teaching
Two professors at the University of South Carolina are using Twitter as a tool in teaching foreign languages.
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Distributed Computing in a Wireless Environment
Virginia Tech researchers have launched a proof-of-concept study to develop highly connected computer systems that work in a wireless environment. The study is...
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Analysing Data Is the Future For Journalists, Says Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web says reporters should be hunting for stories in datasets.
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A Matter of Privacy
Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?
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