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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Dartmouth Researchers Invent 'magic Wand' to Improve Healthcare, Cybersecurity
A digital "magic wand" developed by Dartmouth College researchers makes it easy for people to connect their devices to Wi-Fi.
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Researchers Are Developing Shape-Shifting Fluid Robots
Bar-Ilan University researchers say they have created fluid robots that could operate better than solid robots in chaotic, hostile environments.
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Apple Case Highlights Struggles Cios Face in Balancing Privacy, Law Enforcement Requests
As technology advances, there's a delicate balance between individual privacy and law enforcement’s requests for information.
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Heal Thyself!
Researchers are developing electronic components that have the ability to recognize damage and repair themselves.
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What Would Happen If Aliens Contacted Earth?
Nearly 40 years ago, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was scanning a part of the sky hoping to detect a signal from an alien civilisation.
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Dna Tags Help the Hunt For Drugs
Nestled in a plastic box, in an ordinary laboratory freezer on the second floor of a concrete building in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a clear test tube that contains...
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Robots Can Now Flawlessly Iron Clothes
A newly developed robot can iron a shirt after analyzing the subtle ridges in a laid-out garment with two sensors made from Xbox Kinects.
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Does Apple Win Even If It Loses?
It is a battle for public opinion almost as much as it is for the law.
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Apple Sees Value in Its Stand to Protect Security
It took six years for Apple to persuade China's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, to sell the iPhone.
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First Evidence For the Happiness Paradox--That Your Friends Are Happier Than You Are
Mathematical analysis has demonstrated the validity of the claim that most people's friends have more friends than they do.
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Digital Baby Project's Aim: Computers That See Like Humans
A cognitive psychology experiment has revealed differences in how humans and computers see images, says Weizmann Institute of Science professor Shimon Ullman.
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White House Wants to Train K-12 Students to Be Nation's Future Cyber Defense
A $4-billion effort encouraging U.S. public schools to offer computer science courses is part of a longer-term effort to fill the shortage of federal cyber experts...
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Faster Airport Queues With Facial Recognition
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have developed facial-recognition technology that could automate security checks at airports.
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How the .s. Fights Encryption--and Also Helps Develop It
Some U.S. government agencies are financing the development of encryption technologies to protect communications even as others seek to circumvent them.
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Apple's Fbi Battle Is Complicated. Here's What's Really Going On
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...
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Inspiring Computer Scientists
University of Delaware professor Lori Pollock has been selected to receive the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award.
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Google's Balloon-Powered Internet Ready For Carrier Testing
Google's Project Loon, which aims to deliver Internet connectivity via a global network of high-altitude balloons, could be ready for carrier testing later this...
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Eternal 5d Data Storage Could Record the History of Humankind
Researchers have developed recording and retrieval processes for five-dimensional digital data by femtosecond laser writing.
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Marvin Minsky's Legacy of Students and Ideas
The late computer science pioneer and ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Marvin Minsky left behind a wealth of ideas.
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