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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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'do Not Track' Button
Alongside the news that the White House will announce voluntary privacy guidelines for Web companies comes the announcement from major online advertisers that they...
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Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality
It wasn't so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny...
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How Twitter Traffic Follows Air Traffic
Twitter has a reputation for linking people through interests rather than geography. But while the little blue bird lets us connect with people all around the world...
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Stanford niversity Researchers Break Nucaptcha Video Security
When it launched in 2010, NuCaptcha touted its proprietary technology as being able to "provide the highest level of security available" by using video streams...
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Gaining Wisdom from Crowds
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.
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Computing With Magnets
Researchers are finding ways to develop ultra-efficient and nonvolatile computer processors out of nanoscale magnets. A number of obstacles, however, stand in the...
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Policing the Future
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
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Stanford Schooling - Gratis!
Stanford University's experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.
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Computer Science Awards
Scientists worldwide are honored for their contributions to design, computing, science, and technology.
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Avi Rubin on Hacking All Sorts of Devices
Avi Rubin is the technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and in this talk from the TEDxMidAtlantic conference in November...
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Beware Malware Networks in Search Engines: Report
A new security report warns of malware networks ("malnets") lurking within Google and other search engines, driving unsuspecting Web surfers to sites where they...
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Intel Chefs Bake Wifi Into Mobile Chips
Researchers at Intel have come up with a way to make WiFi faster and more energy efficient.
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Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups
Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...
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How to Tell If You're Being Tracked on Safari
If you're on an iPhone or iPad using the most recent version of Apple's operating system, click on the "Settings" icon, and then click on "Safari."
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The Machines Are Talking a Lot
As one of the leading manufacturers of the equipment that routes data around the Internet, Cisco Systems is in good position to know just how many 0s and 1s go...
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question...
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How Google Tracked Safari Users
Google and other advertising companies have been following iPhone and Apple users as they browse the Web, even though Apple's Safari Web browser is set to block...
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Microchips' Optical Future
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity—and the technical expertise to build them may reside...
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Fbi Seeks Social Media Monitoring Tool
The goal is to use the tool to keep on top of breaking events, incidents and emerging threats, the agency said in a recent Request for Information from IT vendors...
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