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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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.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that...
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
MI6 called it Station X.
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Robots As Furniture?
Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have...
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Get Ready For the Computers of the Future
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are exploring ways next-generation computers can make performance gains while reducing energy consumption.
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Robot Linda Will Mingle With Visitors at the Natural History Museum
A specialist mobile robot named Linda will interact with the public at the Natural History Museum in London during Universities Week 2014.
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet
The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your...
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...
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Buckle p--Ssds Are About to Get Three Times Faster
Researchers say they have developed technology that improves write speeds on solid-state drives by 300 percent using a firmware patch.
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?
As Memorial Day reminds us every year, war doesn't go away.
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Origami Unfolds a New World of Shape-Shifting Electronics
The art of origami is transforming electrical engineering and electronics design, as scientists draw on concepts that could enable new shape-shifting electronics...
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sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.
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Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded...
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic
"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic...
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Google ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...
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Google's Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Brakes or Steering Wheel
Humans might be the one problem Google can't solve.
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'smart Pills' with Chips, Cameras, and Robotic Parts Raise Legal, Ethical Questions
Each morning around 6, Mary Ellen Snodgrass swallows a computer chip.
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Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet
Brewster Kahle is quick to point out that we are not standing inside a former Scientology church.
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