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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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Will Your Next Phone Have No Screen?
Google is predicting a generation of screenless computing devices that rely on voice recognition, a senior engineer has said, emphasising that the company encrypts...
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An App-Led Walk Down Memory Lane
The Memoir iPhone app accesses photos and status updates from a user's social networks based on the user's location, what is going on, and who else is around.
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Falling in Love with AI Virtual Assistants: A Creepy Love Affair Nearer Than You Think
"I've never loved anyone the way I've loved you," swoons Joaquin Phoenix, in the movie Her.
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Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.
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Body of Knowledge
Electronic textiles and smart clothing promise to weave new, improved computing capabilities into the fabric of our lives.
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Supreme Court to Decide on Patent Protections For Software
The Supreme Court agreed last Friday to rule on the divisive issue of what kinds of software are eligible for patent protection in a case being closely watched...
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World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games
Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting...
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Laser Instrument on Nasa Mars Rover Tops 100,000 Zaps
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has passed the milestone of 100,000 shots fired by its laser. It uses the laser as one way to check which chemical elements are in rocks...
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How to se Mind-Controlled Robots in Manufacturing, Medicine
Researchers are developing brain-computer interfaces that will allow them to control robots with their minds.
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Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web
The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.
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Identifying Signs of Chronic Brain Injury in Living Football Players
Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain disorder called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition...
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Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system—a...
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Data Mining Reveals the Secret to Getting Good Answers
A new algorithm can rank the questions and answers on question and answer websites, while weeding out off-topic and irrelevant entries.
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Can You Read My Mind? Uc Researchers Engineer the Framework For Helpful Robots With Human Intuition
Robots are expected to play an increasingly large role in daily life over the next 50 years.
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Students pdate Classic Animation Technique
Much of the repetitive manual work involved in the classic squash and stretch animation technique has been automated in a new software program.
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see...
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3-D Images, With Only One Photon Per Pixel
Lidar rangefinders, which are common tools in surveying and in autonomous-vehicle control, among other applications, gauge depth by emitting short bursts of laser...
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China Bars Banks from Bitcoin Transactions
China's government banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin on Thursday, in what analysts said was a restrained first step towards regulating the digital...
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Enhancing the Efficiency of Complex Computations
The science and industry sectors are showing considerable interest in the Karlsruhe High Quality Partitioner.
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