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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Will Science Burst the Multiverse's Bubble?
This philosophical question overlaps with real physics when hypothesizing what lies beyond the boundary of our observable universe.
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Iran's Liberals and Conservatives Argue Over Internet Restrictions
When Iran's authorities started to block websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia in 2006, only a tenth of the population used the Internet.
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Oco-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations...
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Travis County Developing Electronic Voting System With a Paper Trail
An electronic-voting system that prints out a paper copy of the ballot and a take-home receipt is under development and could be in operation within three years...
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People in Leadership Positions May Sacrifice Privacy For Security
Researchers are examining how people with high-status job assignments assess security and privacy, and how impulsive or patient they are in making decisions.
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Virtual Finger Takes Scientists Through 3D Landscapes
Scientists will be able to use software called the Virtual Finger to navigate three-dimensional images of biological structures on computer screens.
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For Tv 'white Spaces,' the Global Outlook Is Hopeful but Cautious
Developed and developing markets' spectrum policies are starting to accommodate TV white spaces.
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Scientists Track Quantum Errors in Real Time: Step Toward Age of Quantum Computing
Researchers have brought functional quantum computing another step forward by developing a method for real-time tracking of quantum errors.
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How Can a Civilian Plane Accidentally Be Shot Down?
Pro-Russian separatists may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday because they mistook the civilian plane for something else...
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In Gaza, Epithets Are Fired and Euphemisms Give Shelter
The Gaza-based interior ministry advises its supporters in a YouTube video that whenever talking about the dead, "always add 'an innocent citizen.' "
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Neuroscience: 'i Can Read Your Mind'
Jack Gallant can read your mind. Or at least, he can figure out what you're seeing if you're in his machine watching a movie he's playing for you.
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Math Can Make the Internet 5-10 Times Faster
Researchers say they have developed software that can make Internet communications via computer, mobile phone, or satellite significantly faster and more secure...
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Electric Vehicles Drive Iot Research at Four Universities
Internet2 announced that it will provide four U.S. universities with an all-electric micro vehicle which will be used in a variety of research projects in Internet...
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Air Force Research: How to se Social Media to Control People Like Drones
Facebook isn't the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media.
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As China Stalks Satellites, .S. and Japan Prepare to Defend Them
In May 2013 the Chinese government conducted what it called a science space mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
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Mars Rover Facing Harshest Journey Yet
After making it across 8.5 kilometres on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is now facing some of the most dangerous terrain it has ever encountered.
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.
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How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.
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Inside the Artificial Brain That's Remaking the Google Empire
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...
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