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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 Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far...
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Why Teens Are Tiring of Facebook
To understand where teens like to spend their virtual time nowadways, just watch them on their smartphones.
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How Much Does a Botnet Cost?
The cost of a botnet is contingent largely upon the physical location of the malware-infected computers inside of it.
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Small Gadgets That Make You Healthier
At any moment, someone in the U.S. most likely is having an asthma attack.
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Rodent Mind Meld: Scientists Wire Two Rats' Brains Together
It's not exactly a Vulcan mind meld, but it's not far off.
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New Technology for Animation Film Experts
Researchers have developed a technique for creating virtual worlds that they say will simplify the work of animators, and assist doctors and athletes with motion...
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Supercomputing Challenges and Predictions
The future of supercomputing likely will include improved weather forecasting and faster discovery of new drugs.
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Cloud se Grows, and So Does Security Threat
Holding everything from highly personal medical and social media material to confidential financial and corporate documents, Internet-based cloud services are gathering...
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Wireless Connections Creep Into Everyday Things
A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner...
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Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started
Mobile computers are spreading faster than any other consumer technology in history.
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Teaching Robots Lateral Thinking
Many commercial robotic arms perform what roboticists call "pick and place" tasks: The arm picks up an object in one location and places it in another.
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Pushing the Wrong Button: Bad Button Placement Leads to Drone Crashes
Unmanned aircraft crash. In fact, they crash a lot—though there's no recent specific data, the Congressional Research Service reported last year that despite improvements...
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Blueprint For an Artificial Brain
Researchers are developing an artificial brain using memristors, electronic microcomponents that imitate natural nerves.
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And Now, From I.b.m., Chef Watson
I.B.M.'s Watson beat "Jeopardy" champions two years ago. But can it whip up something tasty in the kitchen?
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This Amazing 3d Desktop Was Born at Microsoft
The history of computer revolutions will show a logical progression from the Mac to the iPad to something like this SpaceTop 3D desktop, if computer genius Jinha...
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Autopsy of a Dead Social Network
Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.
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On Today's Battlefield, Is Information More Important Than Firepower?
Halo, Borderlands, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Metal Gear Solid—these kinds of games taught a generation to see enemies as red dots on a mini-map...
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Onr-Funded Software Boosts Marines Civilian Operations at Fleet Exercise
The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research recently software that utilizes mobile devices to streamline civilian assistance operations.
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China Says .s. Routinely Hacks Defense Ministry Websites
Two major Chinese military websites, including that of the Defense Ministry, were subject to about 144,000 hacking attacks a month last year, almost two-thirds...
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