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Forget Wearable Tech, Embeddable Implants Are Already Here
Smartphone mapping features are great for getting directions, until you lose signal.
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Stanford Medical Technology Exposes Hidden Maladies of Sculptor Auguste Rodin's Celebrated Hands
One has a ganglion cyst.
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Automated Age-Progression Software Lets You See How a Child Will Age
University of Washington researchers have developed software that automatically generates images of a child's face as it ages through a lifetime.
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Researchers See If Google Glass Can Help Parkinson's Patients
Researchers are experimenting with Google Glass to see if it can assist Parkinson's disease patients in monitoring their symptoms and increasing their mobility. ...
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Three Questions For Eugene Kaspersky
The Moscow-based computer security firm Kaspersky Lab has analyzed major new kinds of malware, including Stuxnet, which four years ago was revealed to have damaged...
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Call of Cyber Duty: Military Academies Take on Nsa
If Douglas MacArthur or Ulysses S. Grant went to the U.S. Military Academy today, they might be testing their defensive skills hunched in front of a computer screen...
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What's Next: Making Technology More ser-Friendly
University of Kentucky professor Melody Carswell combines psychology and engineering to better understand the issues humans have with technology.
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Dna Nanobots Deliver Drugs in Living Cockroaches
Researchers have introduced DNA nanobots that can dispense drugs into living cockroaches.
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U.s. Cyber Challenge Opens Registration For Cyber Quests Competition
Students and professionals have until April 29 to register for the Cyber Quests online contest that could yield an invitation to a week-long Cyber Camp this summer...
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Supreme Court Weighing When Online Speech Becomes Illegal Threat
When does an online threat become worthy of criminal prosecution?
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How the U.s. Built the World's Most Ridiculously Accurate Atomic Clock
Throw out that lame old atomic clock that's only accurate to a few tens of quadrillionths of a second.
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Twitter Is Surprisingly Accurate at Predicting Unemployment
Twitter is full of relative junk: tweets you don't want to read from people you're not all that interested in knowing, almost all of them chiming in on topics (see ...
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
Hackers are exploiting overlooked vulnerabilities in third-party access points ranging from online restaurant menus to soda machines to heating and cooling systems...
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Data Mining Uncovers 19th Century Britain's Fat Habit
The Trading Consequences project has produced new insight into how fat became a worldwide commodity.
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Stanford Computer Scientists Learn to Predict Which Photos Will Go Viral on Facebook
Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting which photos on Facebook will go viral.
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The Bug that Rocked the Foundations of the Web
Late on Monday afternoon, the details of one of the most serious security problems to ever affect the modern web were posted online.
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
They came in through the Chinese takeout menu.
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Steve Matteson: Fonts in the Time of Wearables
As gadgets get smaller, and mobile manufacturers find new ways to shrink their devices to fit on a user's wrist, people like Steve Matteson are focused on keeping...
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Half-Century Milestone For Ibm Mainframes
The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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