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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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New Map of Twitterverse Finds 6 Types of Networks
Researchers have found most of the information being discussed on Twitter falls into six distinct patterns or networks.
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Kaist Developed an Extremely Low-Powered, High-Performance Head-Mounted Display Embedding an Augmented Reality Chip
The new K-Glass head-mounted display features an Augmented Reality chip based on the Visual Attention Model, which mimics the human brain's visual data processing...
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Necklace Projectors Will Throw Emails Onto the Floor
Researchers have created a projector embedded in jewelry to enable consumers to use their hands or the floor as a screen for reading email and other digital information...
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How an nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
Igor Spetic's hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job.
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As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers
U.S. military personnel are forming complex emotional ties with robots, in a growing trend that might foreshadow the future of human-robot interactions.
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Virtual Reality Headset Helps Navy Simulate Future Workspaces
Project BlueShark is helping the Navy experiment with a virtual reality headset for applications such as providing ship operators with a 3D view of their environments...
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Vibration Energy the Secret to Self-Powered Electronics
A promising solution for charging smartphone batteries on the go uses a nanogenerator to harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface into power for the...
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How Much Is the Internet of Everything Worth? Cisco Says $19 Trillion
Are you curious why everyone is talking about the Internet of everything?
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The Weirdest Thing About the Apple Security Bug Is How Simple It Was
So for the past 18 months, there has been a horrific security hole in many of Apple's products that has allowed "man in the middle" attacks on supposedly secure...
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Nasa's Latest Robot: A Rolling Tangle of Rods That Can Take a Beating
Space-bound robots tend look like tanks and are about as flexible as the Tin Man after a rainstorm.
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The nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World
This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company.
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Augmented Reality Gets to Work
For Thomas Caudell, it started with a desire to make it easier to build airplanes.
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Self-Completing Programs
The Sketch programming language enables programmers to leave out some coding details, with Sketch filling in the blanks.
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Cockpit For Apps: Minority Report Meets Google Glass
A "personal cockpit" would provide a good way for people to interact with their apps in the near future, according to researchers at the University of Manitoba. ...
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From a Distance: New Technique For Repair Work
Companies operating globally could use a new platform to enable local engineers to collaborate with experts abroad in real time to address issues with production...
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Playing at Health
Developers try to tap the beneficial effects of video games.
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Reading Brains
The first steps have been taken toward enabling a computer to perceive one's thoughts.
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Telecom Firms Mine For Gold in Big Data Despite Privacy Concerns
Last year's revelations over the U.S. tapping of phone and internet data gave telecoms firms pause for thought over whether they should sell their "big data" for...
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