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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Me and My Files
If you are fed up with juggling too many incompatible devices, European researchers may have the answer. In their 'me-centric' world, you literally wear all your...
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Nsa's Boot Camp For Cyberdefense
If you're the kind of person who worries about the security of computer networks, you should know that the National Security Agency is worrying about it too. Since...
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For Web
Mark Brooks wants the whole Web to know that he spent $41 on an iPad case at an Apple store, $24 eating at an Applebee’s, and $6,450 at a Florida plastic surgery...
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Peeking Into Users' Web History
In a test of Google's privacy protections, European researchers were able to hijack Google's personalized search suggestions to reconstruct users' Web search histories...
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Facebook v Google for Web Control
Mark Zuckerberg will soon hit the ripe old age of 26. And despite his youth, he clearly possesses no fear as he sets his company's sights on trying to wrest control...
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Mit Researchers Boost Efficiency of Wireless Power
Wireless power transmission systems become increasingly efficient as more devices are being powered, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Improving Network Firewalls
Researchers believe that analyzing the constantly changing log files of corporate firewalls can provide more helpful data on computer network traffic and a better...
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Cloud Computing and Developing Nations
For a growing number of organizations worldwide, cloud computing offers a quick and affordable way to tap into IT infrastructure as an Internet service. But obstacles...
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Modeling the Astronomical
Advances in computer technology have changed the way astronomers see and study the universe.
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Study Shows Students Are Addicted to Social Media
A new study from the University of Maryland concludes that most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable, to be without their media links...
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A New European Project to Boost Multilingual Internet se
The European Monnet project is building multilingual ontologies to retrieve and present information across languages, as well as to meet industry and governmental...
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Secure P2p Scheme Leverages Social Networks
Microsoft and Catholic University of Leuven researchers are proposing Drac, a method to secure anonymous instant messaging and voice-over-IP communication using...
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Google Releases Data on Governments' Demands For User Data, Site Censorship
Advertisers aren't the only ones hungry for data on online users. So are U.S. and foreign governments, according to Internet giant Google.
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Apple Removes Teaching App From App Store, and Educators Complain
Apple generally makes news by publishing new apps, not by unpublishing them. But last week, it made some educators upset when it removed an app, Scratch Viewer,...
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Startups Find Room to Run on Crowded Social Web
A little more than a year ago, the young co-founders of social network games maker Playdom were sitting pretty. Hit games including Mobsters had helped make their...
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Real-Time Search
How do you parse a tweet? Five years ago, that question would have been gibberish. Today, it's perfectly sensible, and it's at the front of Amit Singhal's mind....
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Barcodes Help Objects Tell Their Stories
Five U.K. academic institutions have collaborated to create the Tales of Things, a Web site based on the concept of the Internet of things that enables users to...
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Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System
New details have been disclosed about information stolen in the attacks on Google's computers announced in January. The losses included a password system that...
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Virus Publishes Web History of Victims on the Net
A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public Web site before demanding a fee for its removal.
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