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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Scientific Computing's Future: Can Any Coding Language Top a 1950s Behemoth?
Take a tour through the research laboratories at any university physics department or national lab, and much of what you will see defines "cutting edge."
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Former Head of the Nsa and Commander of the S Cyber Command, General Keith Alexander
Recently retired director of the U.S. National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command General Keith Alexander was interviewed by Australian Financial...
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First Life with 'alien' Dna
For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters—A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms...
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An Intelligent Vehicle That Can Detect Pedestrians at Nighttime
Researchers have developed a pedestrian detection system for cars that works in low visibility conditions by capturing body heat with infrared cameras.
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Augmented Reality Gains Traction For Training
Training is one of the original applications of the technology.
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The Plug-and-Play Luxury Home
When it is completed in early 2018, Muse, a 49-story luxury-condo development in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., will have an automated parking system with push-button...
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Saving Crops and People With Bug Sensors
A new method of classifying insects could help protect crops from insect damage and limit the spread of insect-borne diseases.
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Surveying African Cities Using Twitter
Researchers are using Twitter to help determine quantitative information on economic activity, population counts, and other measures in developing countries.
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Computer System Automatically Solves Word Problems
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with colleagues at the University of Washington, have developed a new computer...
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Cars That Look and Listen to Find Themselves a Parking Spot
Researchers affiliated with South Korea's Hanyang University are developing a system to fully automate the parking process, including helping find a parking space...
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Transcending Artificial Intelligence
While it can be a blast going to see the latest Hollywood sci-fi thriller, watching it along with a leading expert in the science and technology fields relevant...
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Massachusetts Invests In Big Data Innovation
Massachusetts is providing $3 million in funding to launch its Open Cloud project to build a new public cloud computing infrastructure for big data innovation.
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Watson in Your Pocket: Supercomputer Gets Own Apps
If you could quiz Watson, IBM's all-knowing supercomputer, from an app on your phone, what would you ask it?
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A System Detects Global Trends in Social Networks Two Months in Advance
A new monitoring method identifies what information will be relevant on social networks as far as two months in advance.
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Fifty Years of Basic, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it's a shame more people don't learn to do it.
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Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation.
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Data Mashups Can Help Answer the World's Biggest Questions
The Medical and Environmental Data Mashup Infrastructure project aims to enable research into the links between climate, weather, environment, and health.
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Computer Program Could Help Solve Arson Cases
Researchers say they have developed software that can cut the time needed to determine the cause of a deliberately set fire.
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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.
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