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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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German Railways to Test Anti-Graffiti Drones
The idea is to use airborne infra-red cameras to collect evidence, which could then be used to prosecute vandals who deface property at night.
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Century-Old Science Helps Confirm Global Warming
A new NASA and university analysis of ocean data collected more than 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition provides further confirmation...
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Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial...
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How Evolution May Help Build Better Robots
In the real world, animals have evolved the ability to get from point A to B by galloping, crawling, and jumping. Now, robots in the virtual world have accomplished...
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Marketing to the Big Data Inside S
Companies market to you according to your shopping habits, your age, your salary, and your social-media activities. In the future, they may be able to advertise...
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Proofs Probable
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
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The Future Is Flexible Displays
Manufacturers hint that bendable screens are coming soon, but academics argue that many engineering challenges remain.
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What Will Hackers Do with the New Kinect?
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...
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Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
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One Day Your Phone Will Know If You're Happy or Sad
As much time as we spend with our cell phones and laptops and tablets, it's still pretty much a one-way relationship.
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Computer Brain Escapes Google's X Lab to Supercharge Search
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...
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Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all the games of SimCity that have been played, no one in the world can actually simulate living things. Biology...
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The Audacious Plan to End Hunger with 3D Printed Food
Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the "replicator" popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself...
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The Future of Propaganda: Sean Gourley on Big Data and the 'war of Ideas'
In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called "The Mathematics of War."
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How to Hack a Nation's Infrastructure
I'm watching a live video feed of people visiting a cafe in London.
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How to Make a Less Creepy Robot? Simple, Just Add Data
Disney’s research arm has solved a problem that you probably didn’t even know robots have—their inability to accept objects from people in a natural way.
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Princeton niversity Celebrates the Art of Science
Sometimes the connection between art and science is clear.
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Out with the Old
Getting rid of obsolete data is getting more difficult, thanks to new regulations and more personal devices in the workplace.
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If Your Shrink Is a Bot, How Do You Respond?
Her hair is brown and tied back into a professional-looking ponytail.
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