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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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Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?
Joss Wright is training a robot to freak people out.
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Deeper Than Ancestry.com, 'evocor' Identifies Gene Relationships
EvoCor is a new search engine that identifies genes that are functionally linked.
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Tweets and Machine Learning Reveal Surprising Patterns of Happiness
Determining life satisfaction by geography, based on tweets.
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E launches world’s largest civilian robotics program – 240,000 new jobs expected
The European Commission and 180 companies and research organizations have launched the world’s largest civilian research and innovation program in robotics.
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50 College Diplomas with the Highest Pay
Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are making a handsome average salary of $89,800.
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Automating Cybersecurity
A system enabling computers to detect intruders and the flaws they exploit, and to automatically repair those flaws, could garner its programmers $2 million.
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Navy Puzzle Challenge Blends Social Media, Cryptology
The U.S. Navy has announced the winners of its Project Architeuthis cryptology puzzle game challenge, designed for Navy cryptology technicians.
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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
A top Chinese general was in a combative mood as he presided recently over an international security forum at a historic hotel near the Forbidden City. Among the...
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A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.
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Automating Cybersecurity
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.
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.s. Schools Missing Opportunities For More CS Majors
Nearly half of U.S. college students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines change their majors.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells
The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized.
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The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd
How well can you predict your next mood swing?
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Nsa Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
The U.S. National Security Agency is intercepting massive numbers of facial images for use in facial-recognition programs.
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Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access
Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a group of satellites designed to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the world.
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Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse
A team of researchers has created a smartphone app designed to combat sexual harassment.
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Digital Actors Go Beyond the ncanny Valley
Graphics specialists are close to developing interactive, photorealistically lifelike digital humans that will transform acting, entertainment, and computer games...
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