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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Time to Disconnect: Why the Sim Card Has Had Its Day
SIM cards used by mobile phones to connect to phone networks will soon be 25 years old, and have been found to be vulnerable.
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Heavy Smartphone Use Linked to Lower Intelligence
New research from the University of Waterloo suggests a link between heavy smartphone use and lower intelligence.
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Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality
"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California.
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To Digitize a Brain, First Slice 2,000 Times with a Very Sharp Blade
As I stepped into the Brain Observatory, I didn't really see what I expected from a brain bank.
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Engineering the Perfect Baby
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
Artificial intelligence researchers want to develop more comprehensive exams to test their systems.
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Ncsa Part of Team Developing Tools to Help Governments Deal With Disasters
A $20-million grant is aimed at developing computer tools to help local governments prepare for extreme weather and recover quickly in the aftermath of natural...
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Demand For Linux Skills Growing Faster Than Talent Pool: Report
There is still a shortage of qualified Linux professionals, according to the Linux Foundation's 2015 Linux Jobs report.
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Google, Stanford Use Machine Learning on 37.8m Data Points For Drug Discovery
Researchers at Stanford University and Google have used machine-learning techniques to find effective drug treatments for a variety of diseases.
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Oxford Celebrates 200th Birthday of Ada Lovelace
This year, the University of Oxford will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of computer visionary Ada Lovelace.
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...
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'freak' Flaw Undermines Security For Apple and Google Users, Researchers Discover
Companies and government agencies are scrambling to correct a major security flaw revealed this week.
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New App Monitors Net Neutrality in Mobile Networks
Northeastern University researchers have developed an app for detecting traffic differentiation in mobile networks.
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Why Computers Still Struggle to Tell the Time
Despite the extreme precision of most modern computer systems, software engineer George Neville-Neil says it remains difficult for them to accurately tell time. ...
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How Alien Life Might Look on Saturn's Moon Titan
Alien lifeforms may exist in the solar system but they would look very different to life on Earth, scientists have suggested.
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Hunting Black Holes at the South Pole
Each of the telescopes that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are currently working to bring into their black-hole-observing, planet-size array...
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Innovative, Lower Cost Sensors and Controls Yield Better Energy Efficiency
A new wireless sensor prototype could reduce the costs of collecting data such as outside air and room temperature, humidity, light level, occupancy, and pollutants...
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...
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