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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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Why Everyone (not Just Geeks) Should Care About Big Data
Hugo Campos has a cardiac defibrillator implanted in his body. It sends data about his heart to his doctors and back to the manufacturer, but it takes days to get...
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Dbtoaster Breaks p Data Jams in Server Farms
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne researchers have developed DBToaster, a system designed to improve the flow of database queries into server farms by accelerating...
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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes niverses
Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...
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Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody.
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.
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New Server Cooling Technology Deployed in Pilot Program at Calit2
Calit2 recently developed Cool-Flo, cooling technology that could improve energy efficiency and enable higher-performance computing.
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Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact
This month, Intel unveiled a Wi-Fi radio almost completely made of the same sort of transistors that go into one of its microprocessors.
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Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target
NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake...
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Facebook Raises Fears with Ad Tracking
Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those...
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Facebook Can Id Faces, but Using Them Grows Tricky
Facebook on Friday confronted a new obstacle over what to do with one of its most vital assets—pictures.
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Official: Iran's N. Facilities Vaccinated Against Malwares
Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali stressed that Iranian experts and engineers are fully capable of detecting and repelling...
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Iran Readies Domestic Internet System, Blocks Google
Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the...
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Why Wi-Fi Is Often So Slow
A number of Internet service providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., have recently upped the maximum speeds of broadband they offer...
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For Energy-Efficient Hpc, Less Is More
Intel researchers recently demonstrated their NTV technology by operating an x86 microprocessor on just two milliwatts of power.
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Digging For Drug Facts
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
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Redesigning the Data Center
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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Nasa Actually Working on Faster-Than-Light Warp Drive
You know that scene in the film Contact where the "Machine" is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful...
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Big Data and Its Big Problems
Imagine every thousandth blood cell in your body has a tiny radio transmitter in it.
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Watch Your Tongue: Law Enforcement Speech Recognition System Stores Millions of Voices
Intercepting thousands of phone calls is easy for government agencies. But quickly analyzing the calls and identifying the callers can prove a difficult task.
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Cameras Know You By Your Walk
Everyone knows how easy it is to recognize a friend or family member from their walk—even from a distance.
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