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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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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...
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Credit Cards Under Pressure to Police Online Expression
Earlier this month, major credit card processors including MasterCard, Visa, and America Express announced they would stop processing payments to websites that...
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Huawei (yes, Huawei) Pushing For Global Security Standards
Remember that 1995 Alanis Morissette song, "Ironic?"
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Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow...
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Managing the Deluge of 'big Data' From Space
For NASA and its dozens of missions, data pour in every day like rushing rivers.
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The Rapid Advance of Artificial Intelligence
The latest work in the realm of artificial intelligence by scientists, roboticists, and others could potentially transform the world within the next five years. ...
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Electric Cars: Hidden Habits You Are Sharing with Firms
You wouldn't think that anybody would care about your drive to the supermarket to buy milk.
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Taking the Internet nderwater
A deep-sea Internet framework could lead to better tsunami detection, offshore oil and natural gas exploration, surveillance, pollution monitoring, and other activities...
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Whither Supercomputing?
Even as America’s economic uncertainty over the government shutdown ends, the fate of Supercomputing remains undecided.
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Huawei Executive Talks About Cyber Security
As the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, Huawei plays a part in the technology industry's efforts to ensure network security...
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How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real
Despite a strong philosophical connection, computers and brains inhabit separate realms in research.
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On a New Jersey Islet, Twilight of the Landline
Hurricane Sandy devastated this barrier island community of multimillion-dollar homes, but in Peter Flihan's view, Verizon Communications has delivered a second...
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Tweets Have Become Shorter Since 2009, Say Computer Scientists
Twitter users are communicating with fewer and shorter words, researchers have found.
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Researchers Discover New Approach to Improve Personalized Cancer Treatments
A new method for targeting mutated cells could lead to a major breakthrough in a personalized medicine approach to treat cancer.
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Google Seeks Student Coders for Code-In, Summer of Code Events
Google is looking for great young software developers to participate in its Google Code-in 2013 and Google Summer of Code 2014 events.
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Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance
Cities across the United States increasingly are using big data for law enforcement, raising concerns about government tracking the details of citizens' lives.
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N.s.a. Director Gives Firm and Broad Defense of Surveillance Efforts
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...
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Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Nsa History Conference
In this email message to colleagues, Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir recounts the difficulties he faced in getting a visa to attend the 2013 Cryptologic History...
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Unbreakable Encryption Comes to the U.S.
As revelations about the depth and breadth of the NSA's digital eavesdropping program continue to come to light, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute is rolling...
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