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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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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.
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The Future of Brain Implants
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant...
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The Search For Life Across the niverse
When Jeremy Drake was beginning his career in the late 1980s, the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe still seemed beyond the realm of scienc...
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Nasa Technology Views Birth of the Universe
Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive...
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Stanford Students Show That Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The U.S. National Security Agency's telephone metadata program can yield details of the familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations of...
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U.s. to Cede Its Oversight of Addresses on Internet
The United States will give up its role overseeing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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W3c Boss Jeff Jaffe Explains How the Web Will Beat Smartphone Apps and Keep Growing
World Wide Web Consortium CEO Jeff Jaffe discusses how the Web will evolve to meet the challenge of smartphone users moving to closed apps.
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.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
The uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far...
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.
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The Data Brokers: Selling Your Personal Information
Over the past six months or so, a huge amount of attention has been paid to government snooping, and the bulk collection and storage of vast amounts of raw data...
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Ancient Migration Patterns to North America Are Hidden in Languages Spoken Today
A few weeks ago, scientists announced an intriguing finding about the ancestors of today's Native Americans.
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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Stanford Lab Yields New Privacy-Based Social Network
The new Omlet social network allows users complete control over their personal data.
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AI Researcher Says Amoral Robots Pose a Danger to Humanity
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Selmer Bringsjord says understanding morality is increasingly important as robots become smarter and more autonomous. ...
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Where in the Solar System Are We Most Likely to Find Life?
Last week, NASA announced one of its most exciting missions in recent memory: a plan to visit Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons.
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The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...
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Women of Color Nurture Minority Girls' Interest in STEM
Women represent a small fraction of those in science, technology, engineering, and math, and minority women even less, a National Science Foundation study finds...
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Collecting Digital User Data Without Invading Privacy
Privada is a new a cryptographic method that makes it possible to simultaneously collect data and protect the privacy of the user.
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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