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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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N.s.a. Director Gives Firm and Broad Defense of Surveillance Efforts
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...
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Unbreakable Encryption Comes to the U.S.
As revelations about the depth and breadth of the NSA's digital eavesdropping program continue to come to light, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute is rolling...
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The Rapid Advance of Artificial Intelligence
A gaggle of Harry Potter fans descended for several days this summer on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland for the Leaky Con gathering, an annual haunt of...
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The Future Fabric of Data Analysis
When subatomic particles smash together at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, they create showers of new particles whose signatures are recorded by four...
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Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes
Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice.
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Mit's 'kinect of the Future' Looks Through Walls With X-Ray-Like Vision
A device dubbed the "Kinect of the future" can see through walls and pinpoint the movements of someone with an accuracy of plus or minus 10 centimeters.
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What Last Week's Anti-.s. Shift in Internet Governance Means to You
Last week a group of the Internet's governing organizations announced they were effectively turning their backs on the United States.
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The Future of Prosthetics Could Be This Brain-Controlled Bionic Leg
About a year ago, Zac Vawter climbed all 103 flights of stairs of the Willis Tower in Chicago.
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Cyber Warrior Shortage Hits Anti-Hacker Fightback
For the governments and corporations facing increasing computer attacks, the biggest challenge is finding the right cyber warriors to fight back.
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Intel Sees a Future Where We Will Form 'relationships' with Our Gadgets
Rugged individualists aside, many people find themselves increasingly connected not just to one another but also to the devices that make those connections possible...
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Facial Recognition Is More Accurate in Photos Showing Whole Person
People rely on non-facial cues, such as body shape and build, to identify people in challenging viewing conditions, such as poor lighting.
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Bit By Bit, Virtual Reality Heads For the Holodeck
While sitting in a stuffy Hollywood hotel conference room recently, I plotted my next move outside a snow-covered, ancient castle.
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Printed Electronics: A Multi-Touch Sensor Customizable With Scissors
Researchers have developed a printable multi-touch sensor whose shape and size can be altered.
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Here's Everything You Should Know About Nsa Address Book Spying in One Faq
A new report from The Washington Post, based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the National Security Agency is collecting hundreds...
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Cyber-Shield: Brazil Announces Govt System to Block Nsa Snooping
Brazil is creating an email system intended to shield the government from NSA spying.
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Accelerometer Ids Smartphones in Seconds
One afternoon late last month, security researcher Hristo Bojinov placed his Galaxy Nexus phone face up on the table in a cramped Palo Alto conference room. Then...
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On Its Way to Jupiter, Nasa's Juno Probe Sends Snapshot of Earth
Following the speed boosting slingshot of Earth on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that sent NASA's Juno orbiter hurtling towards Jupiter, the probe has successfully transmitted...
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3D Printing a Masterwork For Your Living Room
You may never be able to get to Italy to see Michelangelo's David—but advances in 3D printing technology are making it possible for you to create an almost perfect...
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Better Robot Vision
Researchers have developed a robot-vision algorithm they say is 15 percent better than its best competitor at identifying familiar objects in cluttered scenes. ...
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