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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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After Boston: The Pros and Cons of Surveillance Cameras
Even after the identification of the Boston bombing suspects through grainy security-camera images, officials say that blanketing a city in surveillance cameras...
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Deep Learning
When Ray Kurzweil met with Google CEO Larry Page last July, he wasn't looking for a job.
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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper Versus Screens
In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons.
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From Hackers to Security Experts, the Balkan It Sector Is Booming
After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy.
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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Bioengineers Build Open Source Language For Programming Cells
Drew Endy wants to build a programming language for the body.
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A Simple Way to Turn Any Lcd Into a Touch Screen
Electromagnetic interference can screw up cell phone and radio reception. But it may also be the key to cheaply transforming regular LCD screens into touch- and...
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With Wave of the Hand, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Touch-Based Interfaces
Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface into a touchscreen. But...
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Nasa Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager
A gauge on the Voyager home page, http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov, tracks levels of two of the three key signs scientists believe will appear when the spacecraft leave...
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The Martian Chroniclers
There once were two planets, new to the galaxy and inexperienced in life. Like fraternal twins, they were born at the same time, about four and a half billion years...
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Vanishing Electronics
Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from...
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'Small Data' Enabled Prediction of Obama's Win, Say Economists
"Big data" from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions.
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A Digital Eye to Watch Soccer's Trouble Spots
The organization at the heart of international soccer’s technological advancement is located in a generic two-story building just off the A4 highway here, a few...
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The Digital Public Library of America: Adding Gravitas to Your Internet Search
One year ago, a group of professors, librarians, and futurists gathered in San Francisco to discuss how they would go about building a Digital Public Library of...
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Space Telescopes and Human Genomes: How Researchers Share Petabyte Data Sets
Computational research is evolving as organizations seek to eliminate barriers that prevent collaborative teams from accessing data.
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Tech-Savvy Public Plays Key Role in Hunt For Bombing Suspects
Since the bombs went off in Boston's Copley Square on Monday, the FBI and Boston Police Department have been enlisting the public's help with what may be the world's...
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Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a...
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We Need More Cameras, and We Need Them Now
On Thursday afternoon, the FBI released photos and video of two persons of interest in the Boston Marathon bombing.
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How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements
Wireless operators have access to an unprecedented volume of information about users' real-world activities, but for years these massive data troves were put to...
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