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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Report Sees Decline in Voting Glitches ... but Vote-By-Mail Sparks Concern
The good news about voting technologyis that the upgrades put into place since the controversial 2000 presidential election have made ballot tallies twice as accurate...
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Craig Venter Imagines a World with Printable Life Forms
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.
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Inside Google's Sci-Fi Search Experiments
The familiar whistle of a smartphone notification told me that Paco was hungry.
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At Stanford, Scholars Debate the Promises, Pitfalls of Online Learning
Although online learning has great potential to enhance the education process, Princeton University president emeritus William Bowen cites three obstructions to...
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Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription For Health Care
Everyone agrees health care in the United States is a colossal mess, and IBM is betting that artificially intelligent supercomputers are just what the doctor ordered...
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The Future, as Imagined by Google
In Eric E. Schmidt's future, his life will be a lot easier.
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Making Crowdsourcing More Reliable
One of the major obstacles in crowdsourcing information gathering is the reliability of collected reports, but researchers at the University of Southampton and...
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Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote
Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined...
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How I Accidentally Helped Compromise the Secret Keys of High-Security Handcuffs
In the age of freely available modeling software, laser cutters and 3D printers, shapes that must stay secret for security's sake don't stay secret for long. Especially...
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Pentagon Scientists: We Can't Predict Violent Outbursts. Yet.
In the years to come, a top group of military scientists believe, the Pentagon may be able to use genomics and bio-markers to spot when a soldier is about to snap...
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Leon Panetta on Cybersecurity: D.C. Action Needed
While Joe Biden and Paul Ryan were duking it out last Thursday night over U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was warning...
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Why Modern Maps Put Everyone at the Centre of the World
Got truly and outstandingly lost recently? Enjoy the feeling while you can, for it's becoming an increasingly difficult task.
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New Technology Maps Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Street and Neighborhood Level
One of the biggest problems with climate change is that, at least in the short term, it's largely invisible.
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Free Program Makes Computer Graphics More Realistic
Cornell University researchers have developed a new version of Mitsuba, a free, open source rendering program used by computer graphics researchers worldwide.
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What Comes After the Touch Screen?
In a few short years, the technologies found in today's mobile devices—touch screens, gyroscopes, and voice-control software, to name a few—have radically transformed...
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The Measurement that Would Reveal the Universe as a Computer Simulation
One of modern physics' most cherished ideas is quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks and gluons into protons...
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App Protects Facebook sers From Hackers
University of California, Riverside researchers have developed MyPageKeeper, an application for detecting spam and malware posts on Facebook users' walls, which...
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Can We Trust the Code That Increasingly Runs Our Lives?
Imagine how different the first pictures sent from the Mars Rover would have been if there had been a software failure.
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Graphics Chips Are For More Than Just Eye Candy
Chances are there is a graphics chip in your desktop computer, and it is fuelling a revolution.
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