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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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IBM's Jeopardy Strategy: Divide and Conquer
When it comes tackling a challenge as tough as answering a human question, the best computational approach may be to break the job down into multiple parts and...
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The Power of 'convergence'
In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
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Utah's $1.5 Billion Cyber-Security Center Under Way
Today's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important...
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Interactive Window Shopping
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications researchers have developed a three-dimensional camera system that enables consumers to interact with items inside window...
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Beyond Surveillance: Darpa Wants a Thinking Camera
It’s tough being an imagery analyst for the U.S. military: you’re drowning in pictures and drone video, with more pouring in endlessly from the tons of sensors...
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The American Wikileaks Hacker
Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world—including his own.
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Don't Track Me, Bro
Here is how Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, describes the current state of affairs on the Internet: "Say I’m walking through a mall...
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Graphics Ability Is the New Goal For Chip Makers
In the good old days, it was all about speed.
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Intel's 2nd-Gen Chip Arrives, with Hollywood in Tow
Intel is officially announcing its next-generation processor tomorrow—and Hollywood is playing a big role.
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Perfecting Animation, via Science
Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.
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Android Programming's ps and Downs
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.
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Electric Currents Move Racetrack Memory Bits with Precision
The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.
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Earth Project Aims to 'simulate Everything'
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...
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Rise of the Machines
With factories swapping technology for workers during the recovery, jobs may not come back for decades.
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Massive Collider Churning Out Data
This year the world's largest science experiment roared to life. Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, has spent the year accelerating...
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Cheaters Find an Adversary in Technology
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using...
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Ibm Expects Holographic Phone Calls, Air-Powered Batteries By 2015
By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that’s what International Business...
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Gadgets Bring New Opportunities For Hackers
Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with...
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Report Strengthens Suspicions That Stuxnet Sabotaged Iran
A new report appears to add fuel to suspicions that the Stuxnet superworm was responsible for sabotaging centrifuges at a uranium-enrichment plant in Iran.
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