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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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Csiro Telepresence Robots Connect Students With National Museum
Australia's National Museum has launched a trial that enables schoolchildren to remotely navigate its galleries via robots that contain telepresence technology. ...
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Personal Monitor Systems May Change Healthcare
The mHealth infrastructure currently under development incorporates computer informatics, smartphones, and energy-efficient and miniaturized electronics and sensors...
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Fighting Cancer With the Google Pagerank Algorithm. Sort Of.
In cancer parlance, metastasize is a four-letter word.
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Web Money Gets Laundering Rule
The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to "virtual currencies," amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit...
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Copyright Ruling Rings With Echo of Betamax
Before Napster and LimeWire, before Megauploads and the Pirate Bay, media companies' epic struggle against copying, piracy and generally losing control over their...
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Microsoft Gives ser Data to the .s. Government Less Often Than Google, But to Foreign Governments Far More
Microsoft has finally joined Google and a small group of Internet firms that voluntarily reveal how often governments demand they hand over their users’ private...
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Study Shows How Easy It Is to Determine Someone's Identity With Cellphone Data
Researchers have found that only four spatio-temporal points are needed to uniquely identify 95 percent of individual cellphone users.
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Ap Wins Big: Why a Court Said Clipping Content Is Not Fair se
A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the Internet...
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At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio is taking some time off from school in London, where he lives with his parents. He will let mom and dad help manage his money.
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Pentagon's Mad Scientists Want a Tattoo That Tracks Troops' Vitals
In its ongoing quest to measure every aspect of U.S. troops' physiology, the Pentagon's esoteric research enclave wants to develop a durable, unobtrusive device...
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Printable Robots Designed to Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive
A new project to automate the design and manufacturing of consumer robots uses two-dimensional desktop technology fabrication methods.
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Swiss Supercomputer Aims to Predict Mountain Weather With Help of Gpus
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center will upgrade its supercomputer to more accurately predict the weather in the mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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It's Like They’re Reading My Mind
Whether it's our location, contact lists, calendars, photo albums, or search requests, app developers, advertising companies, and other tech firms are scrambling...
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Carnegie Mellon, Nsa Seek High School Hackers
Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking.
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U.s. Cybersecurity Policy Draws Interest from Companies, Lobbyists
The determination by Congress and President Obama to protect networks of critical U.S. industries from hackers and cyberspies is creating an explosive growth opportunity—for...
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Asteroid-Smashing Space Probes Set for Cosmic Crash in 2022
Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving forward with plans to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a huge nearby asteroid in 2022 to see inside the...
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Looking Back at Big Data
As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.
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Bitcoin: Fastest Growing Currency in the World
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency—worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing.
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