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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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DDoS Cyber Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, More Damaging
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyber attacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet.
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Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...
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The First Woman to Get a Ph.d. in Computer Science From MIT
Irene Greif talks to The Atlantic about her life and legacy.
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Perjurers and Fake Reviews Train Software to Spot Lies
Lawyers and judges use skill and instinct to sense who might be lying in court.
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Mathematical Proof Reveals How To Make The Internet More Earthquake-Proof
One of the common myths about the Internet is that it was originally designed during the Cold War to survive nuclear attack.
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Open Source Challenges a Proprietary Internet of Things
The Linux Foundation recently created the AllSeen Alliance, which combines the AllJoyn Framework with its open source network.
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Social Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab Human Dynamics Laboratory director Alex Pentland is working on a new theory of human social interaction.
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Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield
An electromagnetic mystery in northern Iraq changed the course of Jesse Potter's life.
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Cuban-Americans Hack For Information Freedom
A network of students and young professionals strive to empower youth in Cuba.
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Cassini Nears 100th Titan Flyby with a Look Back
Ten years ago, we knew Titan as a fuzzy orange ball about the size of Mercury.
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Plan to End U.s. Control of Icann Submitted to Brazil Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance
Syracuse University researchers have proposed a solution to the U.S. government's ties to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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Software Maps Ambiguous Names in Texts to the Right Person
Rsearchers have developed AIDA, software that enables accurate disambiguation of named entities by analyzing them with the help of Wikipedia.
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The Face Behind Bitcoin
The reclusive inventor of the troubled virtual currency has been hiding in plain sight.
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There is no gender gap in tech salaries
New research shows no statistically significant difference in earnings between male and female engineers who have the same credentials.
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Interviewing the Algorithm
Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.
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Russia and kraine in Cyber 'stand-Off'
As diplomatic efforts are stepped up to ease tensions in Ukraine, security experts have warned that Kiev and Moscow are locked in a cyber stand-off.
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Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget
A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.
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Keeping Pace With the Data Explosion
Researchers have developed co-factorization machines that utilize mathematical analysis to study the interaction between social media users and tweets.
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Feds Grapple With Big Data vs. Privacy
White House counselor John Podesta is leading a 90-day study examining the intersection of big data and privacy.
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