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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Social Media Silences Debate
The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers, in episodes as momentous as the Arab Spring or as trivial as the Ice Bucket Challenge. But overall...
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Why Big Data Has Some Big Problems When It Comes to Public Policy
For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...
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Valeri: Robots Lending a Helping Hand to Build Planes
Researchers on the Validation of Advanced, Collaborative Robotics for Industrial Applications project are trying to incorporate robots into the building of airplanes...
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Beer Taps the Internet of Things
Industry-specific technology tracks how quickly kegs are drained and help purveyors charge for every last drop.
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Looking to the Future of Data Science
The Association for Computing Machinery, a leading professional association in computer science, is holding its annual conference this week, focusing on what we’re...
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In Praise of Efficient Price Gouging
In the four years since the car service Uber launched, it has been beset by criticism from myriad groups, including city officials annoyed by its sometimes cavalier...
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Hacking Gmail With 92 Percent Success
A weakness believed to exist in Android, Windows, and iOS mobile operating systems could be used to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users.
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Helping Researchers Cope With the Medical Literature Knowledge Explosion
The new Knowledge Integration Toolkit will help research scientists make better use of the massive volumes of scientific research that is available in public databases...
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How an Algorithm Detected the Ebola Outbreak a Week Early, and What It Could Do Next
HealthMap, an international mapping tool that detects and tracks diseases, identified the Ebola virus just over a week before it spread.
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Can Computers Replace Historians?
A researcher suggests computers have the potential to sift through the big data of history to help spot patterns.
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Skype's Real-Time Translator Learns How to Speak From Social Media
Microsoft says its upcoming Skype Translator app will translate multilingual conversations in real time.
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Realistic Robo-Hawks Designed to Fly Around and Terrorize Real Birds
Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they’re the sworn enemy.
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The Surveillance Engine: How the Nsa Built Its Own Secret Google
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a "Google-like" search engine built to share more than...
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For Sale: Systems that Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone sers Go Around the Globe
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they...
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Alternatives For the Mouse-Averse
Controlling computers with gestures offers greater potential than a mouse ever could.
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Robotic Brain 'learns' Skills from the Internet
Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube.
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Robotics: How Machines See the World
Can you tell the difference between a human and a soda can?
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The Cookies You Can't Crumble
If you've used the Internet for longer than the iPhone has been around, you're probably familiar with cookies, those little packets of personal data that help load...
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Galileo: What Does a More Accurate Sat-Nav System Mean?
With the planned launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana later this month, Europe is pushing ahead with its own satellite-navigation system...
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