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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper

When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...

College Diplomas, With a Side of Specialized Study
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College Diplomas, With a Side of Specialized Study

Recent college graduates, especially those in the liberal arts and political sciences, increasingly are turning to coding boot camps, online courses, and community...

Drone Pilot Wanted: Starting Salary $100,000
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Drone Pilot Wanted: Starting Salary $100,000

Big companies, such as Amazon and Facebook, are looking for pilots who fly drones and engineers with experience in building the unmanned aircraft. And they are...

Workers in Silicon Valley Weigh In on Obama's Immigration Order
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Workers in Silicon Valley Weigh In on Obama's Immigration Order

Silicon Valley's constant stream of new apps and services depends on hundreds of thousands of foreign-born engineers to help create them.

Automation Makes ­S Dumb
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Automation Makes ­S Dumb

Artificial intelligence has arrived.

10 Hottest It Skills For 2015
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10 Hottest It Skills For 2015

The pace of job growth in IT may be slowing down, but it's still moving at a strong clip.

A Revolution in Higher Education
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A Revolution in Higher Education

Sanjay Sarma is investigating how online coursework enhances lecture-based learning and the implications for higher education.

MIT Mooc Makes an Impact in the Classroom
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MIT Mooc Makes an Impact in the Classroom

The incorporation of material from a massive open online course (MOOC) into a traditional lecture-based MIT course changed and enhanced both the students' and the...

Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the ­niverse
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the ­niverse

As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...

Google Boosts Turing Award Computing Prize to $1 Million
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Google Boosts Turing Award Computing Prize to $1 Million

There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.

This Startup Is Turning the Human Body Into a Next Gen Design Platform
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This Startup Is Turning the Human Body Into a Next Gen Design Platform

The story of this startup begins with a murder.

China Predicted to Outspend the US on Science By 2020
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China Predicted to Outspend the US on Science By 2020

China is on track to overtake the United States in research and development (R&D) spending by the end of the decade, according to a report on the global state of...

These Are 3 Breakthrough Science Ideas You'll Be Talking About in 2015
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These Are 3 Breakthrough Science Ideas You'll Be Talking About in 2015

For anyone who has ever said that all the STEM professions need is something to make them "cool" in order to attract more young people, look no further than ...

Hacking a ­niverse's Worth of Data
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Hacking a ­niverse's Worth of Data

On a Friday night in New York City you can find just about anything. And this past Friday about 130 hackers gathered in the Hayden Planetarium to participate in...

Space-Time Visionary
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Space-Time Visionary

Thanks to theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, real science is embedded in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar, in which explorers seek a new home for humankind.

Samsung's Next Big Thing: Gaining Street Cred in Silicon Valley
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Samsung's Next Big Thing: Gaining Street Cred in Silicon Valley

Young Sohn knew if Samsung was going to make a splash in fast-paced Silicon Valley, he'd have to move quickly.

The $11m Tool That Could Help Computers Write Their Own Code
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The $11m Tool That Could Help Computers Write Their Own Code

Nowadays, if you start typing something into Google, it tries to guess what you’re looking for.

Will Moocs Be Flukes?
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Will Moocs Be Flukes?

On July 23rd, 1969, Geoffrey Crowther addressed the inaugural meeting of the Open University, a British institution that had just been created to provide an alternative...

North Korea: Surfing the Net in the World's Most Isolated Nation
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North Korea: Surfing the Net in the World's Most Isolated Nation

What's the point of a computer in a hermit country sealed off from the internet?

Wrinkles in Spacetime: The Warped Astrophysics of Interstellar
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Wrinkles in Spacetime: The Warped Astrophysics of Interstellar

Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, "Why, of course. That's what it would do."
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