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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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Here's What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014
Graduates around the world gather at the end of spring for one final lesson: the commencement speech.
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The AP's Newest Business Reporter Is an Algorithm
Journalistic earnings stories can feel robotic, even when written by a news organization as prestigious as the Associated Press.
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New N.s.a. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...
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New York Subway Cell Coverage Stinks, But Here Are the Best Lines
The New York City subway system may run 24 hours a day and represent the most efficient means to get around the metropolis, but it has long been a sore spot for...
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Ray Kurzweil Says He's Breathing Intelligence Into Google Search
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...
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Larry Page on Google's Many Arms
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.
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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn
It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn.
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Robots Compete in Disaster Scenarios
The DARPA Robotics Challenge pitted teams from around the world against each other in a series of disaster-themed tasks.
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Science Dmz: Faster, More Secure High-Performance Computing
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service is planning to award a contract for the construction of a Science DMZ network.
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Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.
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Big Broadcasters Vanquish Upstart Aereo at U.s. Supreme Court
Broadcast and cable TV are not dead yet.
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The Case That Might Cripple Facebook
An Irish judge has rendered a preliminary judgment that may have sweeping consequences for U.S. e-commerce firms.
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Former Nsa Chief Mike Mcconnell Says Culture, Not Tech, Is Key to Cyber Defense
John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.
From ACM Careers
nblinking Eyes Track Employees
A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse.
From ACM TechNews
Scheduling Algorithms Based on Game Theory Makes Better se of Computational Resources
A new method has been developed to address the scheduling problem in the ASTRO program in cosmology and the WIEK2k program in theoretical chemistry.
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Can Hp Build the Computer of the Future?
On June 11, Hewlett-Packard revealed plans to make a new kind of computer that it's playfully calling The Machine.
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Supreme Court Tosses 'abstract' Software Patent
The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out an Australian company's patent for business software in a decision that clarifies standards for awarding patents, but not...
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Software That Sees Employees, Not Outsiders, As the Real Threat
A growing number of companies are under pressure to protect sensitive data—and not just from hackers lurking outside the digital walls.
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Titan Flybys Test the Talents of Nasa's Cassini Team
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific...
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