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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape.
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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...
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Fda Approves Pill Camera to Screen Colon
A kinder, gentler approach to one of the most dreaded exams in medicine is on the way: U.S. regulators have cleared a bite-size camera to help screen patients who...
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Attempting to Code the Human Brain
Somewhere, in a glass building several miles outside of San Francisco, a computer is imagining what a cow looks like.
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Mind Meld: The Genius of Swarm Thinking
Iain Couzin does not have fond memories of field research.
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Government Wants You to Broadcast Your Driving Data—Eventually
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that it's finally ready to consider regulations that...
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Evidence Emerges That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All
Back in 2011, the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin paid a cool $10 million for the world's first commercial quantum computer from a Canadian start up called D-Wave...
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Scientists Reading Fewer Papers For First Time in 35 Years
A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to have halted.
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Humanity's Forgotten Return to Africa Revealed in Dna
Call it humanity's unexpected U-turn.
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In the Eye of the Beholder
Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...
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Capturing Football's Snaps, Crackles, and Pops in Madden Nfl
The football players strutted down a 40-yard strip of synthetic turf, yelling, jumping and flailing their arms to whip the fans into a frenzy.
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Humans Came Long After Aliens, Scientist Suggests
I've never thought of humanity as being especially advanced.
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Tech's Diversity Problem Is Apparent as Early as High School
In three states, not a single girl took the Advanced Placement exam in computer science last year. In eight states, no Hispanic students took it. And in 11 states...
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Silicon Brains That Think as Fast as a Fly Can Smell
Researchers in Germany have discovered what they say is a way to get computers to do more than execute all the steps of a problem-solving calculation as fast as...
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'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets
Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography...
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Another Super Bowl Ad Fest, This Time on the Cellphone
Want to see the Vince Lombardi Trophy that goes to the Super Bowl winner? Take a left in 15 feet.
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N.s.a. Choice Is Navy Expert on Cyberwar
In nominating Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the new director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, President Obama chose a recognized expert in the new...
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Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?
How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth?
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