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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 Secret Agents Who Stake Out the gliest Corners of the Internet
When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...
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Web 2.0 (and Beyond): Developing the Next Generation of Connectivity
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Global Environment for Network Innovations is a network established to test next-generation networking concepts.
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Touching the Virtual
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
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Security Researchers Find a Way to Hack Cars
Security researchers plan to demonstrate a method to hack into and control vehicles at the Black Hat and Def Con hacking conferences in August.
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The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked
It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...
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Nfl Teams Train Qbs with Vr
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—with Me in It
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
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Cars May Soon nderstand More of What You Say
Many cars today now come with limited voice control, but more elaborate and robust systems could be coming to cars soon.
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Neuroscience Computing Boot Camp Aims to Ignite Interest For Brain Research
IBM is trying to get the federal government more interested in neuroscience-inspired computing.
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Researchers Prove Html5 Can Be sed to Hide Malware
The upcoming HTML5 standard could enable hackers to execute drive-by download attacks, according to researchers in Italy.
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Deep-Learning AI Is Taking Over Tech. What Is It?
Have you ever begun a Google search, only to click on the words the box lays before you?
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The People 'possessed' By Computers
Sophia Ben-Achour looks like a typical London student. She has short, brown hair, dancing eyes and a wide smile.
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Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
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Nsa Summer Camp: More Hacking Than Hiking
The U.S. National Security Agency is seeking to cultivate middle- and high-school student interest and proficiency in cybersecurity in a new summer camp program...
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Hitchhiking Robot Embarking on Coast-to-Coast Tour Across .s.
HitchBOT set out on its first cross-country tour of the U.S. on Friday.
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RoboCup World Championship: UNSW Student Engineers Take Robots to China to Defend Title
University of New South Wales student engineers are in Hefei, China, to defend their Standard Platform League title at the RoboCup World Championships.
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-M Will Test 3D-Printed, Autonomous 'smartcarts'
University of Michigan researchers are working to understand the challenges of a transportation-on-demand system built around autonomous cars.
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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.
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As Tech Firms Track Your Location, Advertisers Zero In For the Sale
Mapping technology advancements from Google Inc and Facebook Inc that provide more precise user location data than ever before are starting to dent advertisers'...
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