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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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Meet the Puzzle Mastermind Who Designs Def Con's Hackable Badges
Def Con is one of the world's biggest hacker conventions, an annual gathering of security experts, cryptographers and at least a few people who could surreptitiously...
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Origami Robot Folds Itself p, Crawls Away
For years, a team of researchers at MIT and Harvard University has been working on origami robots—reconfigurable robots that would be able to fold themselves into...
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Organic Synthesis: The Robo-Chemist
In faded photographs from the 1960s, organic-chemistry laboratories look like an alchemist's paradise.
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How Wwi Codebreakers Taught Your Gas Meter to Snitch on You
In the depths of night on August 5th 1914 the British Cable Ship Alert took the first significant action of World War I, severing the five German submarine cables...
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Communication-Optimal Algorithms For Contracting Distributed Tensors
A new framework derives algorithms for distributed contraction of arbitrary dimensional tensors on the IBM Blue Gene/Q Mira supercomputer.
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'internet of Things,' Not Privacy, to Dominate at Black Hat
As many as 13 previously unknown vulnerabilities in home Wi-Fi routers and networked storage systems are set to be disclosed at the Black Hat computer security...
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Beyond GPS: Five Next-Generation Technologies
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is currently running five programs to improve civilian and military GPS navigation technology.
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Smartphones as a Health Tool For Older Adults
Researchers are working on a smartphone application to help older adults understand their health so they can cultivate healthier habits.
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Simulation Models Optimize Water Power
Researchers are developing information technology to boost the efficiency of water power generation systems.
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Fiendish Million-Dollar Proof Eludes Mathematicians
Is a solution to one of the most important, beautiful and potentially lucrative problems in mathematics right around the corner?
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How Yahoo Research Labs Studies Culture as a Formal Computational Concept
Yahoo Labs researchers aim to achieve a truly computational understanding of human society by analyzing the links that form on social networks.
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How Google Scans Your Gmail For Child Porn
John Henry Skillern was arrested last Thursday for the possession of child pornography.
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New Protection Scheme Makes Weak Passwords Virtually Uncrackable
PolyPasswordHasher is a new open source password protection scheme that could help organizations better protect passwords.
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Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data to Changed Terrorist Behavior
For nearly a year, U.S. government officials have said revelations from former NSA contract worker Edward Snowden harmed national security and allowed terrorists...
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Where Tech Is Taking s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.
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How Times Square Works
When we stepped out onto the roof, the wind whipped me sideways, and it took me a second to get my bearings.
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Fantasy Footballers and Coaches Rejoice—nfl Players to Wear Rfid Tags
The surveillance society, it seems, is broadening at NFL stadiums.
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The Nsa's Cyber-King Goes Corporate
Keith Alexander, the recently retired director of the National Security Agency, left many in Washington slack-jawed when it was reported that he might charge companies...
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pgrade Your Brain: Liquid Hard Drive Implants Could Increase Intellect
Researchers have found that digital information can be stored on colloidal clusters because they can switch between two states when placed in a liquid.
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