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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Software Adapts Speech to Ambient Noise Level
Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology researchers have developed software that significantly improves the intelligibility of speech.
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Hack-Proof Rfid Chips
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Instruments have developed a virtually hack-proof radio-frequency identification chip.
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Europe's Top Court Mulls Legality of Hyperlinks to Copyrighted Content
Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before...
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
Meet Xiaoice. She’s empathic, caring, and always available—just not human.
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Meet the Soft, Cuddly Robots of the Future
In 2007, Cecilia Laschi asked her father to catch a live octopus for her seaside lab in Livorno, Italy.
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Will AI-Powered Hedge Funds Outsmart the Market?
Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.
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The Massive New Privacy Deal Between U.s. and Europe, Explained
U.S. and European regulators have agreed to a tentative deal, officials say, that would allow thousands of U.S. companies to continue moving the personal information...
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Machine Learning, Social Media Data Help Spot Flooded Areas
Researchers analyzed 2013 flooding in Colorado and found 150,000 tweets from people affected by the disaster.
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A Virtual 'guide Dog' For Navigation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have modified an algorithm for processing three-dimensional camera data, with power conservation in mind.
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Apps in Your Browser
Google has started hosting mobile apps and incorporating them into search results.
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Making Our Digital World Safer From Cyberattacks
Researchers are working to help ensure cybersecurity develops in conjunction with changes in technology and with emerging threats.
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Saturn's Rings: Less Than Meets the Eye?
It seems intuitive that an opaque material should contain more stuff than a more translucent substance.
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How Do Americans Weigh Privacy Versus National Security?
Three years ago, Edward Snowden leaked troves of previously classified information that laid bare the American government's widespread surveillance of its citizens...
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If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard
Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way.
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How to Make Your Own Nsa Bulk Surveillance System
A network surveillance and security issues expert built a miniature bulk surveillance system like the one used by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest
After hackers breached the computer network of the U.C.L.A. medical center last summer, Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, and her office...
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Robotic Comet Lander Philae Says Good-Bye
On a dark stretch of the chilly Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko the lander Philae has begun a lonely and silent vigil.
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Usda Announces Open Data Challenge Winners
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced the winners of the USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge.
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Solving a Problem With Data: Researchers Build System to Protect Roads in the Spring
Researchers are using near-real-time data collection to demonstrate how states can improve their ability to protect brittle roads from heavy vehicles at the end...
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