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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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Warning to Gossipy Grunts: Darpa's Eyeing Your Email
The Pentagon's intent on weeding out "insider threats"—troops or other military personnel who might be disgruntled enough to (Wiki)leak some documents or mentally...
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5 Disruptive Technologies Happening Now
From e-books to 3D printing, these technologies are destroying markets and creating new ones.
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Spam Works
Every day three-quarters of all e-mail that flies across the Internet is spam. Some of it tricks customers into installing a virus or forking over personal information...
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Cities Fail to Recognize Full Potential of Smart Technologies
Opening up data and digital assets is critical to accelerating low-carbon cities, according to a recent University of Nottingham report.
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Zynga's Ipo Will Make Mark Pincus Silicon Valley's Next Billionaire
Zynga, the maker of Mafia Wars and FarmVille, is about to go public in the biggest tech stock offering since Google.
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Carrier Iq Gets Transparent About Its Mobile Monitoring
It's been a tumultuous few weeks for Carrier IQ, the mobile analytics outfit at the center of a continuing privacy brouhaha over what its diagnostic software...
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Flight of the Warbots
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.
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Cyber-Intruder Sparks Massive Federal Response
The first sign of trouble was a mysterious signal emanating from deep within the U.S. military’s classified computer network.
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Silicon Valley Fighting Proposed Law Pushed By Hollywood
Silicon Valley is making one of its biggest lobbying pushes ever, as it fights a proposed law championed by Hollywood called the Stop Online Piracy Act. But whether...
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A New Secret Weapon For Electronics Shoppers
There was a time not so long ago that buying a car was one of the worst shopping experiences. As you drove off the dealer's lot, you couldn't escape the feeling...
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Pentagon Fast-Tracks Hacker Research
The Pentagon has long had a love-hate relationship with computer hackers: On the outside, they can infiltrate vulnerable defense networks. On the inside, they...
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A High-Stakes Search Continues for Silicon's Successor
In a cluttered chip-making laboratory on Stanford's campus, Max Shulaker is producing the world's smallest computer circuits by hand.
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New Efforts to Extend Moore's Law
Continually needing to add computing power to its microprocessors, Santa Clara behemoth Intel this year announced it was venturing beyond its traditional method...
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Facebook Auditions Kid Hackers with All-Night Codefest
"Yes! We have elegance!" says a student from the University of Waterloo. Then he pauses, and his shoulders slump.
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Everything You Need to Know About Carrieriq
"Carrier IQ" is a company that sells software to wireless companies that reports how well networks are performing in real-time, by sending performance data from...
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Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site
Government intelligence service targets "self-taught" hackers with cryptic Web site that features no obvious branding.
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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information...
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Cloud Centers Bring High-Tech Flash but Not Many Jobs to Beaten-Down Towns
Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment...
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Patent Office Highlights Jobs's Innovations
The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late...
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