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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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How Google 'translates' Pictures Into Words sing Vector Space Mathematics
Translating one language into another has always been a difficult task.
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Intel pgrades Stephen Hawking's Portal to the World
Movie audiences who went to theaters this fall to see The Theory of Everything got a glimpse of the challenges physicist Stephen Hawking has overcome to deliver...
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Researchers Engineer Improvements of Technology sed in Digital Memory
Researchers have engineered and tested improvements in the performance of a memory structure known as a ferroelectric tunnel junction.
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Can We Create an Energy Efficient Internet?
A new research program seeks to reduce the energy consumption of Internet-connected devices by developing new hardware and cloud-based solutions.
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To Lure Young, Movie Theaters Shake, Smell and Spritz
Having tried 3-D films, earsplitting sound systems and even alcohol sales in pursuit of younger moviegoers, some theater chains are now installing undulating seats...
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The Supreme Court Debates Rap Lyrics to Draw a Line on Criminalizing Online Speech
The Supreme Court on Monday looked ready to clarify the law on whether violent threats made on websites like Facebook should be liable for criminal prosecution,...
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Why Nasa Looks to Europa to Find the Building Blocks of Life
When it comes to life, biologists have long hypothesised that its origins—on Earth, at least—were in thermal vents on the ocean floor, following a period of ...
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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...
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Time Cloak sed to Hide Messages in Laser Light
A "time cloak" that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended...
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...
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Co-Robots Team Up With Humans
A group of researchers believe people and robots will be able to accomplish much more by working together, as long as robots have common sense.
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Simple Circuit Could Double Cell-Phone Data Speeds
A simple circuit could enable smartphones and other wireless devices to send and receive data twice as fast as is currently possible.
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Supreme Court Case Tests the Limits of Free Speech on Facebook and Other Social Media
About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to say: "Fold up...
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Hacker Mitnick Has a Plan to Help You Stay Safe Online
Even famed hacker Kevin Mitnick—labeled a "computer terrorist" by the FBI in the '90s—worries about getting hacked.
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Intelligent Living
After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.
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What's Next For the Rosetta Mission and Comet Exploration
Somewhere dark and icy on a comet 320 million miles away, the history-making, comet-bouncing Philae spacecraft is sleeping.
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New Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
Researchers have developed a new kind of load driver that could enable biological circuits to behave almost as predictably as electronic circuits.
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Tomorrow's Degradable Electronics
SINTEF researchers in Norway say they have made electronic components that are soluble in water and disappear after a few hours.
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