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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Economics of Video Games
Inflation can be a headache for any central banker. But it takes a certain type of economist to know what to do when a belligerent spaceship fleet attacks an interstellar...
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Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't
In 2010, Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, "Mobile advertising really sucks." Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is...
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Power, Pollution, and the Internet
Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.
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In Cyberattacks, Hacking Humans Is Highly Effective Way to Access Systems
The emails arrived like poison darts from cyberspace.
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Larry Roberts Calls Himself the Founder of the Internet. Who Are You to Argue?
In 1966, the U.S. Department of Defense hired Roberts to design the ARPAnet, a computer network that would connect various research outfits across the country.
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Automatic Building Mapping Could Help Emergency Responders
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
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Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality
The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.
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On Waterfront, Rise of the Machines
In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...
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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes niverses
One of the largest and most complex universe simulations ever attempted will be run in October by Mira, the world's third fastest supercomputer.
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Nasa Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface
NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving.
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Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google’s mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home...
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Why Your Next 'passw0rd' Might Not Be a Password
It's been a rough year for passwords. First, 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked online. Soon after, millions of passwords from eHarmony and Yahoo users...
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m Researchers Mine Data to ncover Terrorist Threats
U.S. counterterrorism efforts monitor and sort vast databases of information for clues on potential plots. Now a team of University of Maryland researchers have...
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Hubble Goes to the Extreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the niverse
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.
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Why Everyone (not Just Geeks) Should Care About Big Data
Hugo Campos has a cardiac defibrillator implanted in his body. It sends data about his heart to his doctors and back to the manufacturer, but it takes days to get...
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Dbtoaster Breaks p Data Jams in Server Farms
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne researchers have developed DBToaster, a system designed to improve the flow of database queries into server farms by accelerating...
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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes niverses
Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...
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Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody.
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.
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New Server Cooling Technology Deployed in Pilot Program at Calit2
Calit2 recently developed Cool-Flo, cooling technology that could improve energy efficiency and enable higher-performance computing.
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