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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Administration Says Mining of Data Is Crucial to Fight Terror
In early September 2009, an e-mail passed through an Internet address in Peshawar, Pakistan, that was being monitored by the vast computers controlled by American...
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If Our Gadgets Could Measure Our Emotions
On a recent family outing, my mother and sister got into a shouting match. But they weren’t mad at each other—they were yelling at the iPhone’s turn-by-turn navigation...
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Just Tap Here: Technology and Travel
Goodbye, plastic hotel room key. So long, wallet. Farewell, camera.
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This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet.
Get right up close to Dmitry Itskov and sniff all you like—you will not pick up even the faintest hint of crazy.
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Let's Play: Making Travel a Game
It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...
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Google Introduces New Search Tools to Try to Read Our Minds
The company revealed some new search tools on Wednesday at I/O, its annual developers conference.
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Landlords Double as Energy Brokers
The trophy high-rises on Madison, Park, and Fifth Avenues in Manhattan have long commanded the top prices in the country for commercial real estate, with yearly...
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Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream
Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers...
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A Digital Eye to Watch Soccer's Trouble Spots
The organization at the heart of international soccer’s technological advancement is located in a generic two-story building just off the A4 highway here, a few...
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Human Genome, Then and Now
Eight years of work, thousands of researchers around the world, $1 billion spent—and finally it was done.
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Justices Consider Whether Patents on Genes Are Valid
The Supreme Court is poised to take up the highly charged question of whether human genes can be patented. But another question could trump it: Has the field of...
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Tiny Chiplets: A New Level of Micro Manufacturing
Under a microscope, four slivers of silicon—electronic circuits called chiplets—perform an elaborate, jerky dance as if controlled by a hidden puppet master.
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Domestic Drones Stir Imaginations, and Concerns
On the pilot's computer screen, planted at ground level a few yards from the airport runway here, the data streaming across the display tracked an airplane at 1...
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Google Concedes That Drive-By Prying Violated Privacy
Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords...
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A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos.
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Next, 4d Printers?
Now that the promise of 3D printing has landed on the national agenda, researchers want to increase the stakes—with so-called 4D printing.
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Connecting the Neural Dots
In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan...
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And Now, From I.b.m., Chef Watson
I.B.M.'s Watson beat "Jeopardy" champions two years ago. But can it whip up something tasty in the kitchen?
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