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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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Digitally Possessed
Virtual possessions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. How we think about them and deal with them is changing the way we think and interact...
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A Workshop Revival
The success of Germany's Dagstuhl Seminars has inspired a proliferation of Dagstuhl-like venues, especially in India.
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Network Science Reveals the Cities That Lead the World's Music Listening Habits
Clique Research Cluster scientists recently analyzed data from Last.fm, a social Web site for music, to determine which cities set the world's listening trends.
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Online Education Venture Lures Cash Infusion and Deals With 5 Top Universities
Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller recently received $16 million in venture capital funding and formed partnerships with...
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Cassini Successfully Flies Over Enceladus
Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 kilometers). This flyby was designed primarily for the ion and neutral mass spectrometer to analyze...
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Nancy Lynch Named 2012 Athena Lecturer
MIT's Nancy Lynch was named the 2012 Athena Lecturer for her advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
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Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub
Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...
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Facebook's Telescope on Human Behavior
One way to describe Facebook is as the most extensive data set on human social behavior that ever was.
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The Technology That Allowed the Titanic Survivors to Survive
More than 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, but more than 700 survived. Those who did owed their escape to the newest communications technology of...
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Web Freedom Faces Geatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to...
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Pentagon Eyes Augmented Reality Displays
The Defense Department has reportedly ordered augmented-reality displays from startup Innovega, only a week after Google disclosed its own augmented-reality project...
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Secrets of App Store Revealed By Artificial Life Forms
University College London researchers Soo Ling Lim and Peter Bentley have developed a simulation of the Apple App Store to study how it works.
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Webrtc Puts Video Chats All in the Browser
The Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) standard is expected to gain widespread use once it is mature, according to technology observers.
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A Quantum Network Built with Two Atoms and Fiber Optic Cable
In an ordinary computer network, data in the form of binary numbers are transferred from one machine (node) to another via some sort of electronic signal, either...
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Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft
While many of the boys in Idan Yahya's high school class were buffing up and preparing themselves for selection into elite combat units, this gawky teenager was...
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Cisco, Juniper Among New Software-Defined Networking Research Center's Founders
A new research center is developing a comprehensive intellectual framework for software-defined networking.
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Humans vs. Robots: Who Should Dominate Space Exploration?
The most recent footprints on the moon are 40 years old, and the next artificial mark on the lunar surface will probably be made by a robot’s wheels rather than...
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Check Your Mac For Malware
Mac fans recently got a little taste of what it's like to be a Windows user.
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