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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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How to Design an Interstellar Communications System
University of California, Berkeley professor David Messerschmitt is studying the design of end-to-end communications between stellar systems.
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Scents That Are Sent: Ophone Delivers Aromas
The oPhone is a device that enables odors to be sent via Bluetooth and smartphone attachments to other oPhones around the world.
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The Last Places on Earth Without the Internet
It can be easy to forget what life was like before the Internet.
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Nyc's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing
New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago.
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Last Call For Bad Calls
Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...
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Intel’s Sharp-Eyed Social Scientist
Genevieve Bell runs a skunk works of some 100 social scientists and designers who travel the globe, observing how people use technology in their homes and in public...
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The Timekeeping Tech that Keeps the Olympics Fair
"On your marks, get set, Go!" might work to start a race on the playground but in the highest-stakes world of the Olympic games, where every thousandth of a second...
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How Airbus Is Debugging the A350
A few times a month, Airbus Flight Test Engineer Patrick du Ché stands up from his desk, takes off his jacket and tie, walks to the coat rack in the corner of his...
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Japan Sensor Will Let Diaper Say Baby Needs Changing
Diapers could enabled to notify parents when they need to change their baby, using a disposable organic sensor developed by University of Tokyo professors.
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Everything We Know About How the Nsa Tracks People's Physical Location
Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept.
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Inside the Google Earth Satellite Factory
Behind a long rectangular window, in a high white room tended by ghostly figures in masks and hats, a new satellite is taking shape.
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Google Encourages Developers to Create Art sing Code
Google is helping to promote a global competition to find an up-and-coming software developer artist who pushes the boundaries of art using code.
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Groups Step Up Efforts to Develop More Female It Workers
The National Center for Women in Technology has partnered with the Million Women Mentors to boost female participation in the technology industry.
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It's Erwin the Friendly Robot
A doctoral student will use a friendly robot to study how the human-robot relationship would be affected if robots have human-like thought biases.
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Baxter and the Second Machine Age
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century is not just the story of steam power, but steam started it all.
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Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...
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Target's Heating and Refrigeration Company Gave Hackers the Key to Customer Data
The massive Target data breach is a symbol of the need for tighter data security in big retail chains, but it's also still an evolving story in its own right.
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Experiment Adds Sense of Touch to Artificial Hand
Swiss and Italian researchers have developed a robotic hand that enables amputees to feel differences between objects.
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Researcher Takes a Muscular Approach to Robotics
A team at Harvard University has developed a robotic device to restore movement for sufferers of neuromuscular disorders that affect the foot and ankle.
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