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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2014: Google’s Schaft Will Be Self-Funded, More Competitors Added
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2014 has announced Google’s SCHAFT robot will compete in the self-funded track.
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Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost .s. Tech Companies
Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.
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How to Win $1 Billion on Ncaa Basketball: A Mathematician's Tips
Last Thursday, the underground classroom at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York was filled to capacity for a college professor's PowerPoint-aided lecture...
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Alan Turing Institute to Be Set Up to Research Big Data
The U.K. government will provide 42 million UK pounds ($70 million US) to fund a research center that will carry the name of computer pioneer Alan Turing.
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Nasa Designs a Robot For Mars
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers have developed Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that will one day explore and study Mars.
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Data Mining Reveals How Conspiracy Theories Emerge on Facebook
Computational social scientists have studied the Facebook interactions of more than 1 million people to examine the spread of misinformation on the Internet.
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Spinoffs from Spyland
It takes more than a little tradecraft to spin off a startup from the National Security Agency.
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Open Source Project Builds Mobile Networks Without Big Carriers
Range Networks is working on an open source project that aims to shift mobile network creation from proprietary hardware to inexpensive commodity hardware.
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Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock
Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...
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'big Data' Reveals Human Interests, Behavior
Researchers are analyzing big data to identify patterns in what motivates people to become interested in particular things, and what causes them to lose interest...
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The Automotive Internet 'road Map' Is Becoming Easier to Read
Announcements herald greater focus on vehicle-based communication.
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The $1,000 Genome
In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton.
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Nasa Historic Earth Images Still Hold Research Value
NASA's Seasat satellite became history long ago, but it left a legacy of images of Earth's ocean, volcanoes, forests and other features that were made by the first...
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Obama Creates Climate Tool With Google, Others
The White House has announced its Climate Data Initiative, through which it will partner with organizations to create tools to help communities adapt to climate...
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Volunteers and Algorithms Need Training to Find Mh370
As the search continues for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, crowdsourcing has emerged as a way to allow the public to help scan satellite imagery to find the missing...
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Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
The growing chasm between Silicon Valley's next-generation of technology workers and the old guard might limit the creation of truly meaningful technology.
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In Sickness and in Health: How Big Data Watches Over You
There are few places where you would less expect to find answers about the digital age than Iquitos, Peru.
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Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow
We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.
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ACM Turing Award Goes to Pioneer Who Advanced Reliability and Consistency of Computing Systems
Microsoft's Lamport Contributed to Theory and Practice of Building Distributed Computing Systems that Work
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