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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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Ahead in the Cloud
Amazon's cloud computing has revolutionized American small business, but can Amazon beat rising competitors?
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Out of Many, One In-Box
Nokia is developing a universal in-box that collects messages and updates from different smartphone applications and organizes them in one location so users can...
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Wikileaks Files Detail .s. Electronic Surveillance
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered clandestine surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining "security measures, passwords, personalWikiLeaks...
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War Machines: Recruiting Robots For Combat
War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots.
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In Class, Texting Is the New Doodling
Top classroom distraction surpasses doodling, daydreaming and note-passing.
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The Birth of a .k. Tech Giant
British chip designer ARM will soon be 20 years old. Bill Thompson was there at the start.
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Crossing the ncanny Valley
Developers of robots and computer-generated films face the difficult task of making their creations as human as possible without looking too human, a perceptual...
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Technology Puts Mind Over Body
Researchers working on Mahidol University's iThink2 project have developed a brain computer interface that controls electronic devices with brain signals and could...
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Security Needs Drive Cyberforensics Industry
Cyberforensics, the science of finding and securing digital evidence buried deep within company networks, is fast emerging as a global industry.
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Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback
One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry...
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Analysing Data Is the Future For Journalists, Says Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web says reporters should be hunting for stories in datasets.
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A Matter of Privacy
Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?
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Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
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The Eyes Have It
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
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'nowhere to Hide': .s. Army Testing New 'smart' Weapons in Afghanistan
The XM-25 soon will see combat; precision rounds can be programmed to explode before impact.
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Windows at 25: A Tech King with Growing Competition
When the first Windows operating system was introduced by Microsoft, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, John Hughes was introducing touching teen stereotypes...
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When the Playroom Is the Computer
A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.
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Researchers Create 3-D Models from Online Photo Databases
Computer scientists have invented a technique that automatically creates 3-D models of landmarks and geographical locations, using ordinary two-dimensional pictures...
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Columbia niversity and Neuromatters to Develop Brain-Computer Interface Technology
Columbia University and Neuromatters LLC have entered into an agreement to develop a novel brain-computer interface technology for rapid identification of relevant...
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