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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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How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its sers Consume Journalism
Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.
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This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever
As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia...
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Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon
After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives.
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From Brain To Computer: Helping 'locked-In' Patient Get His Thoughts Out
In 2009, a man named Barry Beck suffered a series of strokes, which caused extensive damage to his right occipital lobe and to the brain stem.
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Vimeo Tech Chief Takes on 'terrifying' Online Video Challenges
Think online video is old hat? Think again.
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Future Scenarios Show How Easily Ebola Could Explode
Just how bad will the Ebola outbreak in West Africa get?
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The Scent of a Comet: Rotten Eggs and Pee
Eau de Comet isn't, we now know, the most seductive scent floating around in our galaxy. The Rosetta probe's Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis...
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Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distance...
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Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.
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A Quantum World Arising from Many Ordinary Ones
The bizarre behaviour of the quantum world—with objects existing in two places simultaneously and light behaving as either waves or particles—could result from...
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sing Drones to Make Peace, Not War
Amin Rigi says drones should be used to save lives, not spy or kill.
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Scientists Consider Repurposing Robots For Ebola
Robotics scientists nationwide are pondering an intriguing possibility: Might robotic technologies deployed in rescue and disaster situations be quickly repurposed...
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How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?
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Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions
Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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Oldest-Known Human Genome Sequenced
A 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record—revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned...
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.
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.s. Government Probes Medical Devices For Possible Cyber Flaws
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating about two dozen cases of suspected cybersecurity flaws in medical devices and hospital equipment that...
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Data Bank Struggles As Protein Imaging ps Its Game
Structural biology, the mapping of complex biological molecules such as proteins, is in the grip of a revolution.
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