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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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Dental Surgery at the Click of a Mouse
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz researchers have developed an e-learning platform that enables dentistry students to download case studies with videos and images...
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U.s. and China Team Up to Fund Clean Energy Research
Two consortia—one led one led by the West Virginia University that includes as a partner Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and one led by the University...
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Scientists View Cybersecurity as an Intimidating Conundrum
The U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recently called on cybersecurity experts to discuss specific areas in the networking and information...
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Searching For STEM Success
Rural community colleges (CCs) have recently done much better than urban and suburban CCs in the percentage increase of associate degrees awarded to women and minorities...
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ITU Head: Cyberwar Could Be 'Worse Than Tsunami'
There needs to be a global cybersecurity peace treaty to avert the threat of international cyberwar, whose effects would be more devastating than a tsunami, says...
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Future Technology in the NFL
In the years ahead, the National Football League looks set to dial up some new tech blitzes that will make the game fairer and safer. Among the technologies most...
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Texas Ag Probing Google's Searches
The Texas attorney general's office is conducting an antitrust review of Google Inc.'s core search-engine business, a sign of widening government scrutiny of...
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Once a Dynamo, the Tech Sector Is Slow to Hire
For years the technology sector has been considered the most dynamic, promising and globally envied industry in the United States. It escaped the recession relatively...
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Marc Andreessen Flexes His Muscles in Silicon Valley
He spoke for Hewlett-Packard's board when it showed ex-CEO Mark Hurd the door—and is now part of the team searching for Hurd's successor. He played a role in...
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Massive Online Networks to be Focus of Study of Creative Collaborations
Using two creative online communities as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive...
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Cern Collides with a Patent Reality
You might imagine that vast patent royalties flow into the organisation that invented the touchscreen and the World Wide Web. But the atom-smashing outfit CERN...
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Some Newspapers, Tracking Readers Online, Shift Coverage
In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business,...
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Scientists Decode Words from Brain Signals
In an early step toward turning the thoughts of severely paralyzed people into digitized speech, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into...
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Bringing Engineering to K-12 Classrooms
With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, engineers from Tufts University are bringing engineering to young students through STOMP, the Student...
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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How Coders Can Help Fight Climate Change
University of Toronto professor Steve Easterbrook has issued a research paper in which he outlines how software engineers can help climate scientists build computer...
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FCC Seeks More Input on Wireless Internet Rules
The FCC recently asked for more feedback regarding whether regulations should apply to wireless Internet service, adding months of debate on the subject. The FCC...
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How Internet Growth Is Playing Out in Top Emerging Markets
The number of Internet users in the top emerging markets is set to nearly double by 2015—a pace of growth that sounds enticing but that actually presents plenty...
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Season For High Science
Hurricanes on both coasts are test beds for new forecasting tools.
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