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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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Online Friendships Light p Shadow Social Networks
Friending someone on Facebook makes an association public, but many relationships are never professed online.
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Data Mining Meets City Hall
Local and national governments are turning to open data to cut their costs, increase transparency and efficiency, and respond to the needs of citizens.
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Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists.
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Gps Loss Kicked Off Fatal Drone Crash
Hopes that a new breed of commercial drones can be easily integrated into civilian airspace have been dashed after it was revealed that the loss of the technology...
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Defense Contractor Northrop Grumman Hiring For Offensive Cyber Ops
Defense giant Northrop Grumman is hiring software engineers to help it carry out "offensive cyberspace operations," according to a recent job posting.
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DARPA Seeks Holy Grail: Quantum-Based Data Security System
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently launched the Quiness program, which aims to demonstrate that quantum communications can generate secure...
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Silicon Valley Tech Executive Nabbed in False Barcode Scheme Involving Lego Toys
Ever since smartphones got their own bar code scanners, it's become commonplace for store security officers—who carefully monitor surveillance cameras at big box...
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Adaptive Networks Aim to Thwart Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals who take aim at computer networks will find it more difficult to hit their mark if their target is a constantly moving one.
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Onstar Files Patents For Minority Report-Style Billboards
Two weeks ago, a patent filing by General Motors was uncovered that proposed using data collected from its OnStar service to tailor public advertisements to individual...
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Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.s. Is Still Vulnerable
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure...
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Cloud Services Satisfy a Higher Calling
The Internet2 NET+ project recently announced the addition of 16 cloud services to its NET+ program, which is aimed at reducing the barriers to research.
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Here Comes the Sunstorm
With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, U.S. electricity regulators are weighing their options for protecting the nation's grid from the sun's eruptions—including...
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Facebook's Prospects May Rest on Trove of Data
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what?
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Court pholds Google-Nsa Relationship Secrecy
A federal appeals court last Friday upheld the National Security Agency's decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship...
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Cyber Briefings 'scare The Bejeezus' Out Of Ceos
For the CEOs of companies such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, talk of cyberweapons and cyberwar could have been abstract. But at a classified security briefing in...
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FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require the firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build...
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Implanted ser Interface Gives Patients New Options
Researchers at the universities of Potsdam and Toronto have demonstrated that it is possible to communicate with a small user interface device that is implanted...
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How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a...
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