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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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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots
M-Blocks are cube-shaped robots that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and move while suspended upside down.
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Scrambled Code Keeps Software Safe
Computer scientists have developed a "mathematical obfuscation" scheme to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering software.
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As F.b.i. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep.
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Computer Science Researchers at Texas A&m Design Video Game to Manage Stress
Researchers are developing a video game called Chill Out to help students learn stress management.
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More Than a Game
Researchers have used graphics processing units to demonstrate how to crunch certain astrophysics calculations much more quickly than conventional methods.
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How Dia Is Cultivating Google-Like Innovation
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency is using cloud computing to foster innovation among government agencies, industry, and academia.
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Stretchable Oleds For Displays, Lighting
A transparent, elastic organic light-emitting diode could give rise to a new class of smartphones, smart clothing, and wallpaper-like lighting panels.
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Imagining Data Without Division
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...
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Android Fingerprint Sensors 6 Months Away
The FIDO Alliance is aggressively pushing a new standard of biometric identification for consumer access to mobile payments and other services.
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A Google Glass Alternative in Japan
Foreign tourists visiting this city have long encountered translation help.
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Which World Governments Are Most Likely to Snoop on Your Facebook?
The United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia have the highest rates of government surveillance of Facebook accounts.
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The Science Author Clive Thompson Does Not Think Tech Is Ruining Your Mind
Technology writer Clive Thompson believes technology is improving human intelligence.
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Website Maps 1.2 Billion Facebook Faces
Facebook has so many users—more than a billion, or roughly the population of India—that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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k to Create New Cyber Defence Force
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence will recruit reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in its new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
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