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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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What The Fbi Wants In A Social Media Monitoring App
The FBI has raised eyebrows in the tech world with a public document that asks for advice on how to harvest information from social networking sites.
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Sensor Networks Could End Parking Rage
The anger many drivers feel from having to search and wait for parking spaces to open up might be quelled by arrays of networked sensors embedded in city streets...
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Pursuing Iphone Thief, Officer Knew Right Buttons to Push
As crime-solving tools go, it may not have the same pedigree as, say, the oversize magnifying glass.
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Humans Lose, Robots Win in New Defense Budget
The big loser in the Pentagon’s new budget? Ordinary human beings.
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Fbi Plans Social Network Map Alert Mash-p Application
The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material "scraped" from social networks.
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Art-Ificial: The Virtual Virtuosos Redefining Creativity
Imperial College London computer scientist Simon Colton has created Painting Fool, software that can seek artistic inspiration and has basic creativity.
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Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes
Microsoft senior researcher Danah Boyd, a professor at New York University, is focusing on children and teenagers' use of social media.
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No More R
Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.
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10k Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants...
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Hewlett Packard Opens Doors to Its HP Labs .K. Research Base
The year is 2015, and in a government-owned data centre somewhere in southern England thousands of servers are humming away, hard at work keeping the country running...
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Google Wants Ability to 'combine' Your ser Data
Google is planning to rewrite its privacy policy to grant it explicit rights to "combine personal information" across multiple products and services, the company...
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When Self-Driving Cars and the Real World Collide
Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highways, legal scholars and government officials are warning that society has only...
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Nyc Opens First High School For Software Engineering
New York City will create its first public high school dedicated to training students in software development.
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Warrants Needed For Gps Monitoring, Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor...
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ACM Fellows Inducted
Forty-six men and women are recognized as 2011 ACM Fellows.
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The War Against Botnets
Increasingly sophisticated botnets have emerged during the last several years. However, security researchers, businesses, and governments are attacking botnets...
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How .s. Lost Out on Iphone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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Air Force's Top Brain Wants a 'Social Radar' to 'See Into Hearts and Minds'
Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark...
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U.s. Losing High-Tech Jobs, R&d Dominance to Asia
U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science...
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