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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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The Top Four Tech Legal Cases to Watch in 2014
While we're all wiping the champagne-induced sleep from our eyes, inevitably we have to sober up for 2014.
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Inside Tao: Documents Reveal Top Nsa Hacking nit
In January 2010, numerous homeowners in San Antonio, Texas, stood baffled in front of their closed garage doors.
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Faa Picks Six Projects to Tackle Drone Technology Development
The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday designated six projects across the U.S. for research into drones, the unmanned aircraft that have the potential to...
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Dogecoins and Litecoins and Peercoins Oh My: What You Need to Know About Bitcoin Alternatives
By now, most people have heard of Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer currency whose value has soared over the past couple of years.
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Reading Your Palm For Security's Sake
They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain.
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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
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Nsa Phone Surveillance Legal, Federal Judge Rules
The debate over the National Security Agency's collection of millions of Americans' telephone records fell squarely into the courts when a federal judge in Manhattan...
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How Microsoft's 1 Percenters Balance Basic Research with Short-Term Success
When Microsoft launched its research labs in 1991, the personal computer was just beginning to blossom into a worldwide phenomenon, thanks in no small part to Windows...
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The Great Ideas Hiding nder the Invisibility Cloak
Physicist John Pendry talks about the profound physics obscured by his invisibility cloak and how metamaterials could help realise the perfect lens.
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Nasa Lays Out Long-Term Vision For Astrophysics
A new year is a good time to make long-term plans, and NASA has jumped into the deep end of planning.
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The One Big Question About Rsa and Its Relationship With the Nsa
Last week, the Internet security world was jolted by a Reuters report detailing a secret $10 million payment to the security company RSA from the National Security...
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Google's Schaft Robot Wins DARPA Rescue Challenge
Team Schaft's machine carried out all eight rescue-themed tasks to outscore its rivals by a wide margin.
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Stanford Researchers: It Is Trivially Easy to Match Metadata to Real People
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...
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New Magnetic Behavior in Nanoparticles Discovered
Researchers say they have reproduced the antiferromagnetic coupling between layers in particles measuring 10 to 20 nanometers.
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New Data Compression Method Reduces Big-Data Bottleneck; Outperforms, Enhances Jpeg
A new method of data compression outperforms existing techniques and could eventually be integrated into medical, scientific, and video-streaming applications.
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The Predictive Power of Big Data
Right now, the average person's data footprint—the annual amount of data produced worldwide, per capita—is just a little short of one terabyte.
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Edward Snowden, After Months of Nsa Rvelations, Says His Mission's Accomplished
The familiar voice on the hotel room phone did not waste words.
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Distant Planet Weighed sing Clues from Starlight
Researchers have weighed a planet orbiting a distant star by measuring the starlight passing through its atmosphere.
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Into the Bitcoin Mines
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.
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