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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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In Ruling on Iphones, Apple Loses a Bit of Its Grip
Apple likes to maintain tight control over what programs can appear on the iPhone—a task that just became a little bit harder.
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The Technical Muscle Behind Wikileaks
WikiLeaks isn't much to look at. The Website's homepage is largely composed of a plain-text logo and a giant hyperlink that simply says: "Submit documents."
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Wikileaks: Hard Facts and a Hacker Ethos
Julian Assange has been hailed as a hero of investigative journalism and condemned as a risk to national security. Wikileaks, the site of which he is director,...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Plato
The PLATO@50 Conference marked the semicentennial of the computer system that was the forerunner of today's social media and interactive education.
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Making Sense of Real-Time Behavior
Data captured by sensors worn on the human body and analyzed in near real-time could transform our understanding of human behavior, health, and society.
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Ads that Match a Web Page's Images
Using the contents of images or videos to target Web ads could improve click-through.
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Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates...
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Wireless Companies Could se Your Friends
Each time you make a cellphone call, your network provider knows whom you're calling, for how long, and what device you're using. Now researchers at one of the...
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Crash Spurs Interest in Real-Time Flight Data
In the year since the fatal, still-unexplained crash of a French airliner over the mid-Atlantic, interest has intensified in technologies to enhance the tracking...
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Fewer Ads, More Clicks
Search engines get smarter at predicting when we'll respond to a pitch.
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New Cybersecurity Degree Program Designed to Fill Workforce Needs
The University of Maryland University College is reporting robust response to a first-of-its kind cybersecurity degree program scheduled to commence this fall.
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You Want My Personal Data? Reward Me For It
Life, as they say, imitates art. And the way things work commercially today across much of the Web recalls that chapter in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” where...
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Google Search: Political Power
Google’s aggressive tactics have put it on top of the business world, and now the Internet giant is looking to leverage the high profile and sterling connections...
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Htc, Samsung Rebut Apple's Smartphone Claims
Asian handset makers HTC Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday rebutted claims made by Apple Inc. that the iPhone 4's reception problems are shared by other...
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China Seeks to Reduce Internet Users' Anonymity
A leading Chinese Internet regulator has vowed to reduce anonymity in China's portion of cyberspace, calling for requirements that people use their real names when...
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Feds Publish Final Ehealth 'meaningful Use' Rules
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued the final guidelines that will determine how doctors, hospitals and other medical care facilities...
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7887 Khz, Your Home For Classic Cuban Espionage Radio
The FBI documents that accompanied last week's arrest of 10 alleged Russian spies are alternately creepy—who knew the Tribeca Barnes & Noble was a hotbed of espionage...
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DARPA Plots Death-From-Above, On Demand
Before a bomb gets dropped in Afghanistan, dozens of people weigh in: air controllers bark coordinates over a radio; officers double-check the target’s location...
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