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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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Watch Where You're Going
Businesses are quietly buying mobile-phone data to discover the paths that consumers take.
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Multi-Million Dollar Initiative Aims to Improve Internet Architecture
University of Arizona researchers are participating in a U.S. National Science Foundation effort that is investigating ways to revolutionize the Internet's architecture...
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'net Pioneers: Open Internet Should Be Separate
A group of Internet and technology pioneers recently filed a document with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, advising the agency to allow for an open...
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W3c Seeks Help, Patience With Html5 Tests
The technology industry should focus more on helping the W3C improve its tests for HTML5 rather than trying to draw conclusions from the tests or from the results...
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Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn
Silicon Valley is awash in tales of the "PayPal Mafia," the tight-knit group of PayPal alumni who have helped one another start and finance a crop of new companies...
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The Emergence of Holographic Video
Experimental networked display refreshes holograms every two seconds.
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Ftc's First Chief Technologist: Drm Basher Ed Felten
What do you get when you spend your academic career exposing broken DRM schemes, suing the recording industry when they try to silence you, showing the insecurity...
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New Google Tool Makes Websites Twice as Fast
The optimization tool is the latest result of Google's speed obsession and could add to the company's bottom line.
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Nasa Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2
NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...
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Long-Range Undersea Robot Does Its Own Research
A new breed of undersea robot promises to give oceanographers a deeper understanding of ocean life by going faster, farther, and longer than its predecessors—and...
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Neighborhood Mischief Caught on Tape
Steve Miller is justifiably proud of the manicured grounds around his stately stucco home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. So he was nonplussed last year when he discovered...
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Social Studies
In MIT's Human Dynamics Lab, Sandy Pentland uses cellphones and wearable sensors to research nonverbal signals, information flow, and the value of face-to-face...
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Online Social Networks and Human Behavior
Online social networks have become important laboratories for social scientists. "The volume of online social networking is exploding, and it appears it is becoming...
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Will Netflix Destroy the Internet?
American broadband capacity might not be able to keep up with everyone who wants to stream movies.
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Apple Looks to a New Computing Era
Remember the floppy disk? I'm willing to bet Steve Jobs does. I'm also willing to bet he remembers when he killed it.
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Apple Experimenting With Data Transfer Technology For Iphone 5
Apple is reportedly experimenting with Near Field Communication for the upcoming iPhone 5, which would allow the device to be turned into an electronic wallet...
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Obama's Chief Scientist Pushes National Broadband Plan
John Holdren, the White House's top science and technology adviser, says the FCC's national broadband plan would lead to an improvement in the productivity of science...
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Bogus Grass-Roots Politics on Twitter
Data-mining techniques reveal fake Twitter accounts that give the impression of a vast political movement.
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Google's Android Software Dominates .s. Smartphone Market
Google's Android software continued its rocket-like ascent over the summer, ending the third quarter with the dominant market share in the United States among...
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