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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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My Duolingo Learning App Can Reshape Education
Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn says he believes his Duolingo venture is determining what next-generation education will look like.
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Should .s. Hackers Fix Cybersecurity Holes or Exploit Them?
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government—specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Command—should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities or disclose...
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Stanford Engineer Invents a Way to Beam Power to Medical Chips Deep Inside the Body
Researchers say they have has developed a technology that paves the way for 'electroceutical' devices to treat illness or alleviate pain.
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Hitachi Unveils Robot With a Sense of Humor
Hitachi engineers say they have created an android robot with a sense of humor.
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Three Questions with the Man Leading Baidu's New AI Effort
Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.
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Fighting Off Virtual Attacks
Researchers say they have taken ideas from nature and applied them to security for software that runs on digital devices.
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How Google Built Its 3-D Interactive Rubik's Cube Doodle
Today Google launched one of its coolest doodles yet: a 3-D interactive Rubik's Cube.
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Device Aims to Brings Text and Graphics to Visually Impaired
European researchers are working on a portable Braille device with a tactile display that enables visually impaired users to access digital words and graphics.
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Glasses-Free 3D Projector
Researchers have developed a glasses-free, multi-perspective, three-dimensional video screen.
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The Emerging Science of Superspreaders (and How to Tell If You're One of Them)
Who are the most influential spreaders of information on a network?
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Tackling the Limits of Touch Screens
Touch screens are ubiquitous on tablets and smartphones, but their flat glass surfaces can hinder close reading and accurate typing.
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"we're at Greater Risk": General Keith Alexander
Since Edward Snowden's revelations about government surveillence, we know more about how the National Security Agency has been interpreting Section 215 of the Patriot...
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Who Watches the Watchers? Big Data Goes nchecked
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.
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Samsung-Apple Smartphone Battleground Is Single Atom Thick
The main battleground between Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. in the global smartphone market is moving from courtrooms to the laboratory, amid a race for...
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More Google 'forget' Requests Emerge After Eu Ruling
A man who tried to kill his family is among the latest to request removal of search results from Google.
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Google Hopes Test Drives Steer Americans to Embrace Its Robot Cars
Google this week embarked on its most concerted effort to provide an up-close look at its self-driving cars.
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Kindergarten Bots Teach Language to Tots
A series of experiments is aimed at determining how well children retain new words learned from robots over time.
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A Smart Watch Controlled By Twists, Tilts, and Clicks
Researchers say they have developed a better way to control smart watches by enabling users to physically tilt, click, and twist the watch's bezel.
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Do We Need Asimov's Laws?
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots...
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