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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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The Smoke Alarm in Your Pocket and Other Winning Apps
One of the winners of Australia's Apps4Broadband competition is a Web-based app that enables tutors to teach students remotely.
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The Big Data Employment Boom
Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector.
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Researchers Discover Breakthrough Technique That Could Make Electronics Smaller and Better
An international group of scientists have developed a technique for manufacturing nanostructures that could make electrical and optical devices smaller and better...
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How the N.S.A Cracked the Web
It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications.
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Intel's Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links.
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This Augmented-Reality Sandbox Turns Dirt Into a i
We've seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks...
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Huge Botnet Found sing Tor Network For Communications
In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA's domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a...
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Gaming Improves Multitasking Skills
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.
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Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...
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Biodiversity App Logs Insects By Their Telltale Call
Cicada Hunt is a smartphone app designed to listen for the call of the endangered New Forest cicada; it also can be trained to detect other animals by their calls...
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Windows 8 Picture Passwords Easily Cracked
Security researchers have found taht Microsoft Windows 8's picture gesture authentication system is not difficult to crack.
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Mapping the Twitterverse
Researchers are studying how much public geospatial data is generated by Twitter users and how that information could be used by third parties.
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Skype Eye Contact Finally Possible
A new software prototype could make videoconferencing more realistic for home users, by creating the impression of eye contact.
From ACM Opinion
Beyond The Shadows: Apple's Ios 7 Is All About The Screen
At some point in the coming weeks, users of Apple iPhones and iPads will wake up to an alert that there is a new version of the company's mobile operating system...
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Tech Pioneer Vint Cerf on the Age of Context and Why You Can't Be a Citizen of the Internet
Few people have as much claim as Vint Cerf to the title "Father of the Internet," but as the technologies he helped develop in the 1970s and 1980s become increasingly...
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Your Phone Is Blabbing Your Location to Anyone Who Will Listen
Everywhere you go, your phone is sending out signals that can be assembled to form a picture of your movements.
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NASA's Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation
The Curiosity Mars rover recently used autonomous navigation to drive onto ground that could not be confirmed safe before the start of the drive.
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Neutron Stars in the Computer Cloud
Using the Einstein@Home project to analyze archival data from the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia, researchers have discovered 24 pulsars.
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3-D Mapping in Real Time, Without the Drift
A new mapping algorithm that creates real-time, detailed three-dimensional maps of indoor and outdoor environments.
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