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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Striking View of Saturn's Polar 'Hexagon'
Nature is often more complex and wonderful than it first appears. For example, although it looks like a simple hexagon, this feature surrounding Saturn's north...
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Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person?
"This is already so real, I don’t know if I even want to do this anymore," I say out loud.
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Town Built For Driverless Cars
A mocked-up set of busy streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will provide the sternest test yet for self-driving cars.
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Protesters in Hong Kong Must Weigh the Promise and Risks of Mesh Networking
In the heart of Hong Kong, where the largest pro-Democracy protest to challenge Beijing since the 1989 Tiananmen Square gathering has been brewing, some protesters...
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Snowflake-Shaped Networks Are Easiest to Mend
Networks shaped like delicate snowflakes are the ones that are easiest to fix when disaster strikes.
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Neuroscience: Brains of Norway
The fact that Edvard and May-Britt Moser have collaborated for 30 years—and been married for 28—has done nothing to dull their passion for the brain.
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Intel Meets its 'makers,' with Chips For Diy Set and the Firms They'll Found
Intel's Edison chip has been launched in a rocket, floated in a weather balloon, fitted into a futuristic light-emitting dress and used to power a dancing robot...
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Technology Takes the Wheel
Google's driverless car may still be a work in progress, but the potential for semiautonomous vehicles on American roads is no longer the stuff of science fiction...
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How Scammers Trick Your Mind
None of us likes being scammed, and David Modic is no different.
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Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets
The four images that make up a new montage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken on September 26, 2014 by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft...
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The npatchable Malware That Infects sbs Is Now on the Loose
It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference...
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Quantum Bits Get Their First Compression
Without algorithms that compress data to encode information into fewer bits, hard drives would clog up and Internet traffic would slow to a snail's pace.
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Computer Science and Engineering Researchers Win Best Paper Award
Texas A&M University researchers received the Best Paper Award at the recent 2014 Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques conference in Alberta, Canada...
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Internet of Things Gets a Hand from Arm's New Operating System
Desktops have Linux. Mobile devices have Android. The Internet of Things has...Mbed?
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess "feel" anything?
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Nasa Mission Points to Origin of 'ocean of Storms' on Earth's Moon
Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery almost as old as the moon itself.
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Obama's Brain Project Backs Neurotechnology
The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...
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Electronic Brain by 2023
Researchers on the European Union's decade-long Human Brain Project disclosed how far they have come toward the goal of creating an artificial brain by 2023.
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