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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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Learning to Accept, and Master, a $110,000 Mechanical Arm
After the explosion, Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos awoke to see the October sun glinting through the water, an image so lovely he thought he was dreaming.
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China Developing GPS-on-a-Shoestring Plan
When it comes to satellite navigation systems, everybody's gotta have one.
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Iran: All Data of Captured U.S. RQ-170 Drone Decoded
A senior Iranian commander announced that the country has extracted all the data and information existing in the intelligence gathering systems of the United States'...
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Data Services With In-Built Self-Defense
SINTEF researchers want data systems to adapt to virus and hacker attacks, and automatically replace compromised software components without inconveniencing the...
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Flexible Robots Make Their Own Decisions
University West researchers have developed an automation system in which machines and robots make their own decisions and adapt to external circumstances.
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ARM R&D Chief: Intel Can’t Beat s Without A New Business Model
Although Intel is still the undisputed king of silicon, it's a surprising fact that the ARM processor design is in more 32-bit chips than Intel’s x86 design, thanks...
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Intel Tech Chief Rattner Peers Into the Future
What does the future of computing look like? Justin Rattner has a better inkling than most.
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Nasa-Noaa Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.
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3-D Print Yourself Something Big, Piece By Piece
Princeton University's Linjie Luo and colleagues have developed Chopper, software that could enable home 3-D printers to print larger and more useful objects.
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Proving Quantum Computers Feasible
Quantum computers are devices—still largely theoretical—that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might...
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Java Inventor James Gosling Building Smart Marine Robots
Java inventor James Gosling is using Java's security framework to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research...
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Zoom In, Zoom Out
Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still...
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Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
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White House Moves on Cybersecurity
The White House's strategy on cybersecurity: Co-opt the opposition.
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Behind the Iron Dome: How Israel Stops Missiles
The success of Israel's Iron Dome in shooting down missiles fired from Gaza has a lot to do with a company you've probably never heard of: MPrest Systems.
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What Sinofsky's Departure Suggests About the Current State, and Likely Future, of Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, abruptly left the company on November 12, shortly after introducing the latest version of the company's...
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Supercomputers Face Growing Resilience Problems
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software that runs in conjunction with the Message Passing Interface, a library for splitting applications...
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X-37b: Secrets of the .s. Military Spaceplane
In the early morning of 16 June, 2012, a top-secret spaceplane made a picture-perfect landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Brain-Like Chip Outstrips Normal Computers
Computer chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain...
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