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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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Web Freedom Faces Geatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to...
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Law Allows Creationism to Be Taught in Tenn. Public Schools
A bill that allows Tennessee public school teachers to teach alternatives to mainstream scientific theories, such as evolution, will become law this month after...
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Check Your Mac For Malware
Mac fans recently got a little taste of what it's like to be a Windows user.
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Will We Ever Create a Perfect Lie Detector?
To create machines that can always tell when someone is lying, we need to know much more about what goes on in our brains.
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Iran Moving Ahead with Plans for National Intranet
Iran topped a recent list of repressive regimes that most aggressively restrict Internet freedom. The list, published by Reporters Without Borders, is a part of...
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Company Wants to Pull Small Town Pay Phones
Phone service was spotty in Chambers before the two new nearby cell towers.
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Driverless Cars Ready to Hit Our Roads
Driverless cars are moving closer to becoming a reality, as politicians in several U.S. states rush to get such cars on the roads.
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Watching and Waiting
It is called an advanced persistent threat, and if it sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, that's because it pretty much is.
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Hacking It Systems to Become a Criminal Offense
A draft law supported by the Civil Liberties Committee would criminalize the hacking of information technology systems and carry a minimum prison sentence of two...
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How China Blocks the Tor Anonymity Network
The Tor Project is a free network run by volunteers that hides users locations and usage from surveillance and traffic analysis.
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Apple's War on Android
In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge.
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Icann Under More Scrutiny
Critics of ICANN's plan to create hundreds of new generic top-level domains are likely going to continue closely monitoring the organization now that it is clear...
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Uspto Partners With Nasa's Center For Collaborative Innovation and Topcoder
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, working with the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation and TopCoder, recently launched PatentLabeling2, the second...
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Jeffrey Bigham: sing the Crowd to Help People With Disabilities
Jeffrey Bigham's research uses Web-based applications and crowdsourcing to help people with disabilities in near real-time. Is it any surprise he won a NSF Career...
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Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials...
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Google's Grand Plan
In a typical month, David Lawee meets two dozen founders of new companies. He grills them on their businesses, their ambitions, their funding, and their clever...
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Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun
Information technology is changing the way nations wage war, with philosophical and ethical perspectives struggling to keep pace with those changes.
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The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the Ftc's New Approach to Privacy
A mile or two away from Facebook's headquarters in Silicon Valley, Helen Nissenbaum of New York University was standing in a basement on Stanford's campus explaining...
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.s. Outgunned in Hacker War
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation's efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks...
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