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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researcher Aims to Use Social Multimedia For Enhanced Mapping
University of California, Merced professor Shawn Newsam is researching the viability of using multimedia collections as volunteered geographic information for mapping...
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Carnegie Mellon Mobile App Secures Communications
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed SafeSlinger, a mobile application that helps users establish trusted relationships with others for spur-of...
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Preserving Digital Data
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...
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Open For Business
Should academic articles be available for free on the Web?
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Free Apps Eat Up Your Phone Battery Just Sending Ads
Free versions of Android apps use up to 75 percent of their energy serving ads or tracking and uploading user data, says Purdue University's Abhinav Pathak. Free...
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Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled from Physical Laws
Windswept from cloud to cloud until they flutter to Earth, snowflakes assume a seemingly endless variety of shapes.
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Surprise! Astronomers Spot Life on Earth
No one knows when we'll spot life on another world, but everyone knows how it will happen.
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Poll Consensus on Million-Dollar Logic Problem
University of Maryland, College Park computer scientist William Gasarch has re-run his poll on the biggest problem in computer science.
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Microsoft Meets Star Trek With Universal Translator
A new system from Microsoft can automatically translate documents in one language to any other language. Translator Hub makes use of a translation engine that...
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Scientists Tap the Genius of Babies and Youngsters to Make Computers Smarter
University of California, Berkeley researchers are studying how babies, toddlers, and preschoolers learn in order to program computers to think more like humans...
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Simulations and Mathematics Suggest That There Always Be a Facebook
National Center for Nuclear Research scientists are conducting research that could lead to the development of a field of mathematics focused on the theory of minority...
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Sometimes the Quickest Path Is Not a Sraight Line
Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents...
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Indiana Jones Goes Geek: Laser-Mapping LiDAR Revolutionizes Archaeology
"This is it—the paradigm shift," archaeologist Chris Fisher told Ars. "Just like the advent of radiocarbon dating, LiDAR will have the same impact."
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Hail to the Geeks
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...
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Darpa's $40k 'quest' Tests Social Media's Ability to Help in Emergency
DARPA has launched a contest to gain a better understanding of how social media can spread the word during a crisis.
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City With Superfast Internet Invites Innovators to Play
Chattanooga residents have access to a 1 Gbps Internet, which is about 100 times faster than the U.S. national average, and now the city is holding a contest with...
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Engineers se Computer Models to Help Resource-Poor Nations Improve Allocation of Limited Health Care Resources
Georgia Tech researchers are using computer models to help resource-poor nations improve supply chain decisions.
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Leap Year Blamed For Hicaps Stumble
Today's extra day in February has caused the payment system used by the health industry to crash, preventing 150,000 customers from using private health care cards...
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Nasa Pinning Down Where 'here' Is Better Than Ever
Before our Global Positioning System navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are.
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