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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Military Education Falls Short on Cybersecurity Training
Most of the six U.S. military graduate programs have not fully integrated cybersecurity education into their curricula or aligned their programs with the strategic...
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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy
The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...
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Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.s.
Al-Qaida fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if...
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It Helps Researchers See Their Data Like Never Before
A new system allows scientists to view data in three dimensions over various time spans.
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The Making of Facebook’s Graph Search
Graph Search could help Facebook grow from a tool for entertainment and communication into a search tool that could challenge Google's search dominance.
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Congress Starts Looking Into Bitcoin
A Senate committee is pressing federal regulators and law enforcement officials to explain how they plan to oversee Bitcoin and other virtual currencies as the...
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How to Share Scientific Data
Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth catalog and a Silicon Valley muse, once said that information wanted to be free and expensive, simultaneously. That...
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World's Most Influential Thinkers Revealed
Who are the most influential thinkers on the planet? That's a question that you might imagine ought to be straightforward to determine, given the recent advances...
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The Worm Crawls Out – International Team Creates a Digital C. Elegans
Researchers are developing a digital model of a worm, in the hope it will shed light on how various biological systems work.
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Scientists Create Tiny Bendy Power Supply for Even Smaller Portable Electronics
A new micro-supercapacitor could lead to mobile phones and cameras that are smaller, lighter, and thinner than existing devices.
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More Connected Homes, More Problems
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...
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As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House
Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people.
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Hardware Trick Could Keep Cloud Data Safe
The new Ascend chip could protect data in the cloud by concealing the way in which central processing units request information in cloud servers.
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Twitter Tracker Shows Where Food Poisoning Is a Risk
A new machine-learning system can track tweets and show which restaurants are giving people food poisoning.
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Views You Can se? How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment
Are you influenced by the opinions of other people—say, in the comments sections of websites?
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Linkedin Connects Big Data, Human Resources
Every second, more than two more people join LinkedIn's network of 238 million members.
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Electric Therapy For Medical-Device Malware
A new system designed to catch malware on medical devices by noting subtle changes in their power consumption is designated WattsUpDoc.
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Google's Project Loon Begins Tests in California
Google will test its Project Loon in California's Central Valley.
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Dhs Adds Foraging to Tech Arsenal
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security can turn to technology foraging when it does not have a specific technology needed to solve a problem.
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