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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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.s. Computer Scientists Reject Mass Surveillance
Fifty influential American computer scientists have signed an open letter urging the United States to reject mass surveillance and preserve privacy.
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Spy Agencies Tap Data Streaming From Phone Apps
When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background...
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How You Might Be Tracked For Ads in a Post-Cookie World
The Web cookie may be dying, but that doesn’t mean it is the end of consumers being tracked online.
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Transponder Allows Cars to 'See' Pedestrians
Researchers have developed a method to enable driver-assistance systems in vehicles to identify pedestrians and cyclists even if they are obscured by large obstacles...
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At Super Bowl, Detecting Threats Is Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Imagine this scenario: In the course of an hour this week, four different people involved in Super Bowl setup require emergency medical assistance, all for nausea...
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An Open Letter from .s. Researchers in Cryptography and Information Security
Leading members of the U.S. cryptography and information-security research communities express their outrage over U.S. surveillance practices.
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Should Everybody Learn to Code?
Not everyone needs coding skills, but learning how to think like a programmer can be useful in many disciplines.
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ACM Fellows Inducted
ACM has recognized 50 of its members for their contributions to computing that are driving innovations across multiple domains and disciplines.
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The Inside Story of Tor, the Best Internet Anonymity Tool the Government Ever Built
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.
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One Day an Elevator Might Ask—are You Getting On?
Microsoft researchers have enabled elevators in a company building to detect the likelihood that a person walking by will want to board it.
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The White House Is Going to Study Big Data. Here Are 5 Things It Should Know
The White House announced via blog post on Thursday that it's forming working group focused on understanding the promises and pitfalls of big data (with a heavy...
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Ford, Stanford, and MIT Research Giving Self-Driving Cars 'intuition'
Ford Motor is working with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to give self-driving cars intuition.
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Bringing the World Reboot-Less pdates
The Ksplice software automatically applies patches to an operating system without having to reboot.
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Big Web Crash in China: Experts Suspect Great Firewall
A massive Internet failure in China on Tuesday prevented most of the country's 500 million Internet users from accessing websites for up to eight hours.
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Bitcoins and Virtual Currency: How Do Businesses Cope?
Bitcoin speculators have made millions of pounds in the last few months as the value of the Internet-based virtual currency has exploded.
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Fbi Warns Retailers to Expect More Credit Card Breaches
The FBI has warned U.S. retailers to prepare for more cyber attacks after discovering about 20 hacking cases in the past year that involved the same kind of malicious...
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Scientists Detect 'spoiled Onions' Trying to Sabotage Tor Privacy Network
Computer scientists have identified almost two dozen computers that were actively working to sabotage the Tor privacy network by carrying out attacks that can degrade...
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kraine Tracks Protesters Through Cellphones
The Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cellphones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early...
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Researchers Plan to se Nano-Satellites as Space Traffic Cops
Researchers are developing a team of small satellites that will serve as traffic cops in space.
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