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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Sometimes, there is an actual eureka moment.
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Medical Hacking Poses a Terrifying Threat, in Theory
In the world of hypothetical cybercrime, not much is scarier than the hacked medical device.
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Nasa Voyager Statement About Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data
A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space.
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Researchers Building a Computer Chip Based on the Human Brain
Boise State University researchers are developing a chip with a computing architecture resembling the human brain.
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Scientists Find Asymmetry in Topological Insulators
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have found that a class of materials being targeted for the next generation...
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Some Like It Cold: Intelligence Agencies Push For Low-Power Exascale
The U.S. intelligence community is investing in superconductive computing research so it can help institute more efficient, low-power exascale computing.
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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy
The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...
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The New York Times Was Losing $5 Per Second Thanks to Its Web Site Outage
The New York Times is still reeling from a massive Web outage that took down its homepage, its corporate Web site, and everything in between.
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How to Share Scientific Data
Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth catalog and a Silicon Valley muse, once said that information wanted to be free and expensive, simultaneously. That...
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'spoofers' Use Fake Gps Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course
University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...
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Jpl, Masten Testing New Precision Landing Software
A year after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's landed on Mars, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are testing a sophisticated flight...
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As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House
Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people.
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Views You Can se? How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment
Are you influenced by the opinions of other people—say, in the comments sections of websites?
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How Wearable Technology Could Transform Business
Once upon a time seeing your life flash before your eyes was something people did their best to avoid. The arrival of Google Glass seems to have changed that.
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Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost
It's a cognitive leap forward. IBM can now program an experimental chip they unveiled two years ago.
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Exotic Optics: Metamaterial World
Tom Driscoll would be happy if he never heard the phrase "Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak" again.
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...
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Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...
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Integrating Left Brain and Right, on a Computer
As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.
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