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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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Stuxnet Worm 'increased' Iran's Nuclear Potential
The report, published in the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) journal, claims the Stuxnet worm exposed vulnerabilities in Iranian enrichment facilities that...
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'winners-Take-Some' Markets For Electronic Products Are Increasingly Common
Digital converters are reducing the risk of choosing formats that become obsolete.
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When Cars Talk, This Is What They'll Tell Each Other
Researchers are giving Internet Protocol addresses to all vehicles, allowing them to be instantly identifiable to nearby cars on the same network.
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The Coming Political Battle Over Bitcoin
Given that Bitcoin first broke into mainstream attention when Gawker explained how to use it to buy drugs, perhaps the surprise is that it took federal regulators...
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Dawn of the Bot? New Era Nears, Experts Say
Science fiction is quickly taking a back seat to science fact. Just look at a new report by the country's leading roboticists.
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Iowa State Professor Weighs Benefit vs. Risk of Facial Recognition Technology
An Iowa State University professor questions whether society is ready for advanced facial-recognition technology.
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Child Care and STEM Fields Are Called Barriers to Women at 2-Year Colleges
Gender stereotypes that discourage women from pursuing STEM careers are among the most formidable barriers holding them back in community colleges.
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Networks in 2020: More Traffic, Less Energy
New technologies will enable networks to use much less energy by 2020, even though they will be carrying much more traffic.
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Inside the Drone Economy
Last month the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the unmanned systems industry's largest trade organization, released its first economic study...
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Researchers at Parc Give S a Glimpse of the Future
It was a high-tech speed-dating session, Silicon Valley-style: I would sit in the storied memorabilia-laden Room 2306 in the bowels of PARC, the former Xerox research...
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What to Expect When Elevators and Toys Start Phoning Home
Your next elevator pitch might actually come from data derived from your elevator.
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U.s. Cyberwar Strategy Stokes Fear of Blowback
Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers...
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Israel's Main Infrastructure Control System
The Syrian Electronic Army launched a successful cyberattack on the main infrastructure system of Haifa, one of the most important ports in Israel, disrupting the...
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Big Data from Cheap Phones
At a computer in her office at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, epidemiologist Caroline Buckee points to a dot on a map of Kenya's western highlands...
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China's Cyberspies Outwit Model For Bond's Q
Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America is known for spy-world connections and an eye-popping product line.
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Reading, Writing and Computer Coding--the Basics of the Future
To get more students interested in writing software code, advocates are working to eliminate the idea that computer science is too hard.
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U.K. Eyes Apprenticeships to Grow IT Talent
The U.K. information technology sector is trying out apprenticeships as a means of training more young people for jobs in the industry.
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Living in 'the Matrix' Requires Less Brain Power
Neurons called place cells in rat brains function differently when the animals are in virtual reality than when they are in the real world.
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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest For the New AI
There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.
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