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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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Big Data + Semantic Web: Love at First Terabyte?
The Semantic Web has been slow to catch on with enterprises, but Cambridge Semantics chief technical officer Sean Martin believes big data could give Semantic Web...
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How Google Plans to Find the ngoogleable
Google's stated mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. To achieve this goal the company needs to utilize experience...
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In the Year of Disruptive Education
As college tuitions soar, various online models vie to educate college students worldwide — at no cost.
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Zoom In, Zoom Out
Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still...
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Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
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Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.
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Another Year, Another Doubling of Data Traffic (blame Video!)
Demand for mobile data continues to rise: Doubling in the past 12 months according to a new report for Ericsson. Smartphones are obviously part of the equation,...
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Risk Profiling Software Tackles the Terrorist Threat
The U.K. branch of an American company has developed a hi-tech software programme it believes can help detect and prevent potentially dangerous passengers and cargo...
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Behind the Iron Dome: How Israel Stops Missiles
The success of Israel's Iron Dome in shooting down missiles fired from Gaza has a lot to do with a company you've probably never heard of: MPrest Systems.
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X-37b: Secrets of the .s. Military Spaceplane
In the early morning of 16 June, 2012, a top-secret spaceplane made a picture-perfect landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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A Missile-Defense System That Actually Works?
The fighting between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza strip over the last few days is the latest round of violence in a region that has been torn apart by a...
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Why the Frontiers of Biology Might Be Inside a Computer Chip
When David Harel started the experiment, the petri dish of mouse cells looked just like any other.
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Two-Tonne Witch Computer Gets a Reboot
The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire.
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An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business
Once upon a time, Amazon was a dot-com-era technology company best known for selling books.
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What Goes Down Must Come Back Up
For most of the past two decades, the NASA and European Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites have tracked the gradual rise of the world's ocean in response...
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How Metadata Brought Down CIA Boss David Petraeus
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus was brought down by metadata, which is not covered by the Stored Communications Act.
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Blue Waters Opts Out of Top500
The NCSA Blue Waters system is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but it won't appear on the TOP500 list—nor will it be taking part in the HPC Challenge...
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