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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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Netflix's Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human
On the opening night of this year's Sundance Film Festival, two films, as usual, had their premières, gaining maximum exposure to reporters and critics.
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Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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Online Privacy: Regional Differences
How do the U.S., Europe, and Japan differ in their approaches to data protection — and what are they doing about it?
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Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
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The App Economy Is Now 'bigger Than Hollywood'
What is the major cultural force in America right now? It might just be apps and the web.
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Fujitsu Psychology Tool Profiles sers for Risk of Cyberattacks
Fujitsu researchers are integrating psychology into profiling software to make computer security more personalized.
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Google Lunar Xprize: Testing Rovers on the Beach with Team Hakuto
Before you blast off to the moon in search of $30 million offered as part of the Google Lunar XPrize—or the juicy $20 million grand prize for being the first to...
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How the Home Telephone Sparked the ser-Centered Design Revolution
Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...
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Hands-On With Microsoft's nbelievable New Holographic Goggles
It's the end of October, when the days have already grown short in Redmond, Washington, and gray sheets of rain are just beginning to let up.
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Revealed at Last: Magic Leap’s Vision For Augmented Reality, in 32 Patent Illustrations
A new patent application titled Planar Waveguide Apparatus with Diffraction Element(s) and System Employing Same sounds like a scientific snoozefest, but just also...
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The New Digital Arms Race: Nsa Preps America For Future Battle
Documents provided by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden outline the agency's efforts to carry out covert cyberwarfare.
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High-Tech Warriors: A Glimpse Into the Stadium of the Future
Floor tiles that generate electricity when people walk on them. Streetlamps that transmit data to people passing beneath them.
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Cornell Research Steers Nyc Bikes to Needy Stations
Cornell University researchers have developed algorithms and data analysis tools to help rebalance the New York City Citi Bike system as efficiently as possible...
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Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online
A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.
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Why the Silk Road Trial Matters
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library...
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Robots Are Sneaking p On Congress (along with Four Other Tech Trends)
One of the best Twitter accounts inside the Beltway or out—belongs to former representativeJohn Dingell (D-Mich.), who announced his retirement with self-effacing...
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Snowden: .s. Has Put Too Much Emphasis on Cyber-Offense, Needs Defense
In an on-camera interview with James Bamford for an upcoming episode of PBS' NOVA, Edward Snowden warned that the U.S. Department of Defense and National Security...
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