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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Scientists se Slack
When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app.
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.s. Set to Announce Response to Russian Election Hacking: Sources
The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals...
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b Awarded $1.2 Million For Self-Driving Car Research
University at Buffalo researchers have received a $1.2-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create a research center for self-driving and connected...
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Can Alexa Help Solve a Murder? Police Think So—But Amazon Won't Give p Her Data.
When police responded to a home in Bentonville, Ark., one Sunday morning last November, they discovered Victor Collins's dead body in the backyard.
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Exploring Post-Quantum Cryptography
The New Hope post-quantum algorithm to protect encryptions against quantum computers won its developers Facebook’s 2016 Internet Defense Prize (and $100,000); Google...
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How Much Are You Worth to Facebook? A Free Tool Now Provides the Answer
Researchers at Spain's University of Madrid have developed a tool that can identify a Facebook user's economic value on the advertising market in real time.
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Rewriting the Code of Life
Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island.
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Deep Learning AI Listens to Machines For Signs of Trouble
Driving your car until it breaks down on the road is never anyone's favorite way to learn the need for routine maintenance.
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Nist Asks Public to Help Future-Proof Electronic Information
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the world's cryptographers to help stave off the potential decryption of digital information by...
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Astronauts to Get Help From Snake Robots
Snake robots that can assist astronauts are being investigated by researchers at Norwegian independent research organization SINTEF as part of a project with the...
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Walking the Line: Wpi Students Develop App as Sobriety Test
A smartphone application in development at Massachusetts' Worcester Polytechnic Institute tells users when they have had too much alcohol by monitoring changes...
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New Rules For Avoiding Cyber Bugs in Medical Devices
The U.S. government on Tuesday issued rules for addressing cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, providing manufacturers with guidelines for fixing security...
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2016: The Year That Deep Learning Took Over the Internet
On the west coast of Australia, Amanda Hodgson is launching drones out towards the Indian Ocean so that they can photograph the water from above.
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Silicon Valley Reckons With Its Political Power
On Sept. 12, 2016, there was a momentary realignment in the constellation of global business.
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New Technology Coordinates Drones in Team Missions
West Virginia University researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to mobilize unmanned aerial vehicles in team missions.
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Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
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Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets
Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.
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Canadians Solve Key Puzzle For Future of Encryption
Students at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing have developed a system to transmit numerical keys that will unlock coded messages no future...
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Apple and Nokia Battle Over Cellphone Patents
Apple's iPhone is a technological marvel.
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