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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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Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets
The four images that make up a new montage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken on September 26, 2014 by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft...
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The npatchable Malware That Infects sbs Is Now on the Loose
It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference...
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Quantum Bits Get Their First Compression
Without algorithms that compress data to encode information into fewer bits, hard drives would clog up and Internet traffic would slow to a snail's pace.
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Internet of Things Gets a Hand from Arm's New Operating System
Desktops have Linux. Mobile devices have Android. The Internet of Things has...Mbed?
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess "feel" anything?
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Nasa Mission Points to Origin of 'ocean of Storms' on Earth's Moon
Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery almost as old as the moon itself.
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Obama's Brain Project Backs Neurotechnology
The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...
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Robotic Explorers
Yonsei University researchers have developed a system to enable air- and ground-based robot vehicles to cooperate without GPS signals or sensor devices.
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'glass Brain' Offers Tours of the Space Between Your Ears
Former Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart takes pride in his brain.
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New Technology May Lead to Prolonged Power in Mobile Devices
New technology accesses the power of a single electron to control energy consumption inside transistors, which could lead to wearable computers with built-in power...
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New Discovery Could Pave the Way For Spin-Based Computing
Researchers have found a way to fuse electricity and magnetism in a single material, which they say could lead to ultrahigh density storage and computing architectures...
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Putting the Squeeze on Quantum Information
Researchers have demonstrated that information stored in quantum bits can be exponentially compressed without losing data.
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A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How To Write Proofs
Believe it or not, I do have friends who would describe themselves as not liking math, and every so often one of them will share this meme on Facebook: And then...
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Weathering a New Era of Big Data
Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.
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The Solace of Oblivion
October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father's sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California...
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Tiny Robot Learns to Fly a Real Plane
A small, hobby-sized robot could herald the pilot of the future.
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New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind
Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...
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Ieee Standards Group Wants to Bring Order to Iot
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) P2413 Working Group wants to develop an overall architecture for the Internet of Things.
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Gaze-Tracker Lets You Connect to Devices with a Glance
An eye-tracking camera calculates where the wearer is looking, and transmits it to all the nearby Internet-connected devices, such as stereos and TVs, via Wi-Fi...
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