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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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kraine Crisis: Cyber War with Russia Heating up
If you think the crisis in the Ukraine is limited just to being on the ground, think again.
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Remembering Mit, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000
When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.
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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...
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Rise of the Human Exoskeletons
On the outskirts of Pisa in a back room of a modern block, a machine is waiting for its operator.
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What Do Data Brokers Know About Me?
I once ran into a friend and her husband at the playground in our neighborhood in Manhattan.
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Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards
Security people are, by nature, cautious and methodical, and that is even more true of cryptographers.
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...
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Hackers Allegedly Stole $400 Million in Bitcoins. Here's How to Catch Them.
On Friday, what had been the world's leading Bitcoin exchange declared bankrutpcy, claiming that hackers had exploited a technical issue called "transaction malleability...
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The Mammoth Cometh
The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless, for 20 minutes.
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Computer Models Help nravel Mystery of Puebloans' Disappearance
Remember playing "The Oregon Trail" computer game in middle school?
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Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...
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Autonomous Drones Flock Like Birds
A Hungarian team has created the first drones that can fly as a coordinated flock.
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How an nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
Igor Spetic's hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job.
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The Spy Tech That Might Have Kept El Chapo Invisible For So Long
Joaquin Guzman, better known by the nickname "El Chapo," didn't get to be one of the world's most notorious and elusive drug lords without knowing a thing or two...
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How Much Is the Internet of Everything Worth? Cisco Says $19 Trillion
Are you curious why everyone is talking about the Internet of everything?
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Nasa's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza
NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets.
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The Weirdest Thing About the Apple Security Bug Is How Simple It Was
So for the past 18 months, there has been a horrific security hole in many of Apple's products that has allowed "man in the middle" attacks on supposedly secure...
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Nasa's Latest Robot: A Rolling Tangle of Rods That Can Take a Beating
Space-bound robots tend look like tanks and are about as flexible as the Tin Man after a rainstorm.
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