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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money
The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler—Olympic rowers, nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg—are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls.
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A Smartphone to Verify Halal Products the Upm Way
The smartphone application MyHalal uses Android-based mobile devices to scan the barcode of a product to confirm its halal status from a database. I
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Tiny Chiplets: A New Level of Micro Manufacturing
Under a microscope, four slivers of silicon—electronic circuits called chiplets—perform an elaborate, jerky dance as if controlled by a hidden puppet master.
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Nasa 2014 Budget: More For Asteroids, Less For Planets and Education
The White House released its requested federal budget yesterday, which includes NASA funding.
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Obama Budget Makes Cybersecurity a Growing .s. Priority
President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday increased spending to protect U.S. computer networks from Internet-based attacks in a sign that the government aims...
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AT&T Researchers Set a Long-Haul Data Record
A new method increases the distance that large amounts of data can travel through a fiber-optic connection.
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Will Bitcoins Make Me Rich?
Let me begin this column with a lengthy disclosure. One morning last week, I stopped at my bank, filled out a withdrawal slip for $1,027.51, and walked away with...
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Robot Truck Platoons Roll Forward
Imagine cruising down a three-lane highway and rounding a bend to find four trucks rolling along in single-file. They are all traveling close together—perhaps too...
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Crash Course: Training the Brain of a Driverless Car
Early attempts at driverless cars have had little difficulty gathering the loads of data required to operate autonomously.
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Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents
To be a good coder in Silicon Valley is to be among the pampered elite.
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Nasa Associate Administrator on Asteroid Initiative
"The mission to find, capture and redirect an asteroid robotically, and then visit it with astronauts to study it and return samples takes advantage of expertise...
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Intel Cooks p Future of TV—A Potential Mess for Cable
Visualize the TV service you've always wanted: a gorgeous interface that does away with clunky (and often ad-strewn) programming grids; a simple remote that isn't...
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At&t Researchers Set a Long-Haul Data Record
Researchers at AT&T have devised a way to increase the distance that large amounts of data can travel through a fiber-optic connection. The technique should allow...
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Tech Titans Plot to Reprogram Internet of the Future
Many tech firms are collaborating to develop an open source software-defined networking project known as OpenDaylight.
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Cyberattacks Abound Yet Companies Tell Sec Losses Are Few
The 27 largest U.S. companies reporting cyber attacks say they sustained no major financial losses, exposing a disconnect with federal officials who say billions...
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Robot Hot Among Surgeons But Fda Taking Fresh Look
The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year—triple...
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Scientific Articles Accepted (personal Checks, Too)
The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional...
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Remaining Martian Atmosphere Still Dynamic
Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members...
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Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business
Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off.
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