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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A New Era For Signatures
The market for e-signature software and services is poised for dramatic growth.
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Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
The Tempest—wingspan 3.2 metres, cruising speed 75 knots—was designed to fly into severe storms.
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Phones Leave a Telltale Trail
The April robbery at the Cartier store in Chevy Chase, Md., was brazen and quick.
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Will the Nsa Rethink Its Data Collection System?
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Joel Brenner, former senior counsel at the National Security Agency, about whether the NSA can protect Americans'...
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Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind
In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo's top lawyers made their case.
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Supreme Court Says Human Genes Aren't Patentable
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that human genes isolated from the body can't be patented, a victory for doctors and patients who argued that such...
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The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators
The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...
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Big Data Sleuthing, 1960s Style
America's intelligence agencies have long prodded the frontiers of computing and data analysis as the most demanding of customers, willing to pay whatever it takes...
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Spies Like s: How We All Helped Build Prism
It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.
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How Google Transfers Data to Nsa
How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure "file transfer protocol," or FTP. And sometimes even by hand.
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How the .s. ses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails, and other data piling up as digital communications...
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Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight
By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...
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Administration Says Mining of Data Is Crucial to Fight Terror
In early September 2009, an e-mail passed through an Internet address in Peshawar, Pakistan, that was being monitored by the vast computers controlled by American...
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People's Locations Could Be Tracked
Data collected by the National Security Agency's program that monitors Americans' phone calls could be used to track millions of people's locations through their...
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To Catch a Cyber-Thief
A new method for analyzing computer data automatically identifies criminal topics discussed in a textual conversation.
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Contact Lens Computer: Like Google Glass, Without the Glasses
For those who find Google Glass indiscreet, electronic contact lenses that outfit the user’s cornea with a display may one day provide an alternative.
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President Obama: 'right Balance' on Surveillance
President Barack Obama defended his administration’s data-gathering programs Friday, calling them necessary for national security and well within the bounds of...
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China Is Victim of Hacking Attacks
China has been the target of serious cyberattacks from the United States, but Beijing has never blamed Washington or the Pentagon because such accusations would...
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