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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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What Washington Really Knows About the Internet of Things
President Barack Obama wears a FitBit monitor on his wrist to count his steps and calories, and has waxed poetic about the power of wearable technology to "give...
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The Filter Bubble: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
What are the consequences of the same searches yielding different results for different people?
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In Search For Alien Life, Experts Reveal Cutting-Edge Science
Where can scientists find clues to help them locate and understand life beyond Earth?
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Bringing Big Data to the Big Tent
Open source tools assist data science.
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What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?
Given the amount of mobile phone traffic that cell phone towers transmit, it is no wonder law enforcement agencies target these devices as a rich source of data...
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Facebook Can Recognise You in Photos Even If You're Not Looking
Thanks to the latest advances in computer vision, we now have machines that can pick you out of a line-up. But what if your face is hidden from view?
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Europe's First Humans: What Scientists Do and Don't Know
Over the past two years, breakthroughs in ancient genomics and archaeology have revolutionized the story of the first humans in Europe—who are thought to have appeared ...
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Facebook's New AI Can Paint, But Google's Knows How to Party
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...
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Face Recognition Row Over Right to Identify You in the Street
"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you without your permission?"
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The Surreal Dreams of Google's Image Recognition Software
Image recognition is a complicated business. For Google, that means an artificial neural network—software capable of learning.
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Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition
A central component of President Obama's effort to give consumers more control over how companies collect and share their most sensitive personal details has run...
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Facial Recognition Technology Is Everywhere. It May Not Be Legal.
Being anonymous in public might be a thing of the past.
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Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.
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Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing
"Where am I?" In the real world, it's an easy question to answer. Online, things can get more complicated.
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Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink
In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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Deep Learning Catches On in New Industries, from Fashion to Finance
A machine-learning technique that has already given computers an eerie ability to recognize speech and categorize images is now creeping into industries ranging...
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How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
Nicole Keplinger, 22, had long seen ads on Facebook promising financial relief, but she always ignored them and assumed that they were scams.
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'deep Web Search' May Help Scientists
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is collaborating on a platform for searching the Deep Web.
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