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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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The mbilical Link of Man to Robot
Atlas doesn't shrug. But he teeters, loses his grip, stutters, and staggers.
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Wall Street Banks Learn How to Survive in Staged Cyber Attack
In a staged simulation called Quantum Dawn 2, bank executives in charge of operations, technology, and crisis planning were tasked with detecting how a massive...
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Groovy Programming Language Sees Major Boost in Popularity
Groovy has cracked the Tiobe Index top 20 list of the most popular programming languages.
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Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov
HealthCare.gov, the Web site at the center of President Obama's federal health insurance exchange, has been plagued with problems since it opened for business Oct...
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...
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Credit Cards Under Pressure to Police Online Expression
Earlier this month, major credit card processors including MasterCard, Visa, and America Express announced they would stop processing payments to websites that...
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Huawei (yes, Huawei) Pushing For Global Security Standards
Remember that 1995 Alanis Morissette song, "Ironic?"
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Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow...
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Big Data Heralds Return of the Cray Supercomputer
"Big data" means big computers, and good news for Cray Inc.
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Managing the Deluge of 'big Data' From Space
For NASA and its dozens of missions, data pour in every day like rushing rivers.
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Graphics Chips Help Process Big Data Sets in Milliseconds
New software can use the graphics processors found on everyday computers to process torrents of data more quickly than is normally possible, opening up new ways...
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Dude, Where's My Code?
Stack is a new system that automatically combs through programmers' code, identifying those lines that compilers might discard, but that could be functional.
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Electric Cars: Hidden Habits You Are Sharing with Firms
You wouldn't think that anybody would care about your drive to the supermarket to buy milk.
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Huawei Executive Talks About Cyber Security
As the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, Huawei plays a part in the technology industry's efforts to ensure network security...
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How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real
Despite a strong philosophical connection, computers and brains inhabit separate realms in research.
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This Algorithm Can Predict Your Success At niversity
In a large university full of lecture classes, it can be hard to pinpoint the students who are falling through the cracks.
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On a New Jersey Islet, Twilight of the Landline
Hurricane Sandy devastated this barrier island community of multimillion-dollar homes, but in Peter Flihan's view, Verizon Communications has delivered a second...
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Measuring a Superconducting Qubit by Manipulating Its Environment
Measurement in quantum systems is an inherently challenging problem.
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Google Seeks Student Coders for Code-In, Summer of Code Events
Google is looking for great young software developers to participate in its Google Code-in 2013 and Google Summer of Code 2014 events.
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