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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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5 Biometric Alternatives to the Password
There are many things that make you special: Your sense of humor, your dance moves, your personal style, the shape of your ear.
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Inside the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program
The White House Office of Science and Technology's Jennifer Pahlka discusses the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which she helps oversee.
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As Human Laws Grapple with Robots, There Are No Easy Answers
There's been a lot of buzz about robots lately.
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A Veteran Programmer Explains How the Stock Market Became "Rigged"
A small group of financial firms are using their technological superiority to skim the top off the market, Michael Lewis claims in his new book "Flash Boys."
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Explore Angkor Wat with Google Street View
Angkor, what remains of the capital of the Khmer Empire, is an incredibly beautiful place, but it's also very remote: tucked in the Cambodian jungle, at the intersection...
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Harnessing the Power of Hashtags to Tackle Climate Change
The #Climate mobile app is designed to help build momentum for climate change policies by connecting influential persons to nonprofits via a social network model...
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If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
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Cheaper Joints and Digits Bring the Robot Revolution Closer
The Atlas humanoid robot, unveiled last year by Boston Dynamics, a company later acquired by Google, is a marvel.
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Cerf: Classified Nsa Work Mucked p Security For Early Tcp/ip
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf says that he had access to cutting edge cryptographic technology in the mid 1970s that could have made TCP/IP more secure – too bad the...
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Princeton Compsci Prof Wins Prestigious Award
An expert in machine learning and Bayesian statistics at Princeton University is the recipient of the 2013 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computer Sciences.
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The Build-Up: Good and Ready
Robotics appears to be preparing for a major acceleration after a slow start.
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Early STEM Education Will Lead to More Women in It
Girls Who Code says schools must develop mandatory computer science programs for K-12 if the technology industry wants more women in its workforce.
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With California's Red Light Cameras, Are Pictures Admissible Evidence?
Carmen Goldsmith was driving her BMW through Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, when she ran a red light.
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Physicists Are Building an Nsa-Proof Internet
It's long been the Holy Grail of communications: technology that not only maximizes privacy, but also reveals when a message had been intercepted or copied.
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Vint Cerf: CS Changes Needed To Address Iot Security, Privacy
The Internet of Things has tremendous potential but also poses a tremendous risk if the underlying security of Internet of Things devices is not taken into account...
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Commercial Drones Grounded By a Lack of Regulation
The U.S. is moving very slowly in regulating the commercial use of aerial drones.
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While Warning of Chinese Cyberthreat, .s. Launches Its Own Attack
The U.S. government has long complained about Chinese hacking and cyberattacks, but new documents show that the National Security Agency managed to penetrate the...
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Fact or Fiction?: Your Car Is Hackable
When your home computer is hacked, the things at risk are your identity, finances and other digital assets.
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Can a Computer Craft Compelling Stories?
University of Southern California professor Andrew Gordon has a new project that involves getting computers to read and generate stories.
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