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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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Yep, Apple's A7 Looks Twice As Fast–at Least For Fractal Math
Is Apple's A7 chip twice as fast at processing and graphics, as Apple promised when announcing the new iPhone 5S?
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This Is Mars in Extremely High Resolution
On March 10, 2006, seven months after an Atlas rocket boosted it into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter fell into place in the...
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3D Printing: The Greener Choice
Making products with a three-dimensional printer uses less energy than mass-producing them in a factory.
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Virtual Reality Gaming Is Nearly Here; We Just Need the Right Controller
Video games have long promised to offer their players "immersive experiences," but full-blown virtual reality—the holodeck or the matrix—was still a fantasy.
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UltraHaptics – It's Magic in the Air
UltraHaptics is a new interface system that enables users to experience multi-point haptic feedback above an interactive surface without having to touch or hold...
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All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders, and firefighter...
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Autonomous Vehicles Roll Forward
Self-driving vehicles will likely provide substantial benefits, and introduce new challenges.
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Mugged By a Mug Shot Online
In March last year, a college freshman named Maxwell Birnbaum was riding in a van filled with friends from Austin, Tex., to a spring-break rental house in Gulf...
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Making Martian Clouds on Earth
At first glance, Mars' clouds might easily be mistaken for those on Earth: Images of the Martian sky, taken by NASA's Opportunity rover, depict gauzy, high-altitude...
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2013 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Computer Modeling of Chemical Reactions
What is actually happening at the atomic scale when two elements react?
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The Human Brain Project Has Officially Begun
Scientists from 135 institutions working on the Human Brain Project are meeting this week at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
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Send in the Bots
Scientists are using autonomous robots to make discoveries about animal behavior and cognition, some of which would be impossible using live animals.
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Disney Develops Algorithm For Rendering 3D Tactile Features on Touch Surfaces
Disney researchers have developed an algorithm for tactile rendering of three-dimensional features and textures.
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In Digital Era, What Does 'watching Tv' Even Mean?
We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.
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The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Simon DeDeo, a research fellow in applied mathematics and complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute, had a problem.
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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Silk Road Bust Hints at Fbi's New Cybercrime Powers
The biggest drug marketplace on the Internet has been busted.
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Google Debuts Google Web Designer Beta For Html5 Creativity
Google has released the beta version of a tool designed to help Web developers create interactive and vibrant Internet content using HTML5, Google Web Designer...
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