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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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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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When Google Brainstorms, Online World Shudders
Is Google about to do to online privacy what body scanners did to airline travelers?
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Nsa Chief Defends Collecting Americans' Data
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes...
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Ctrl-Alt-Delete Defenders Tell Bill Gates It Wasn't A Mistake
The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons...
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Google Introduces New 'hummingbird' Search Algorithm
Google Inc has overhauled its search algorithm, the foundation of the Internet's dominant search engine, to better cope with the longer, more complex queries it...
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Tuning In to Graphene
New ultra-fast wireless antennas may be on the way, but don't throw away your old wireless router just yet.
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Making the Internet Safe For Gadgets
Initiatives favor direct connections, named resources, and cryptography.
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The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
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What Is a Jpeg? The Invisible Object You See Every Day
In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was "liked" over 4 million times.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
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Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion.
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How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer
The BlackBerry melodrama may finally be coming to a close.
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Teardown Shows Iphone 5s Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 For the 5c
New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart.
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Apple's A7 Chip Makes a Run at Intel
Is Apple simply engaging in PR puffery when it talks about its "desktop" A7 chip? Not so fast.
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Apple: The 64-Bit Question
There's been an interesting sideshow in tech land since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S last week: Does having the first 64-bitmicroprocessor in a phone mean anything...
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Google May Ditch 'cookies' As Online Ad Tracker
Google, the world's largest Internet search company, is considering a major change in how online browsing activity is tracked, a move that could shake up the $120...
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Secret Court Declassifies Opinion Providing Rationale For Metadata Sharing
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...
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