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China Becomes One of the Top 5 ­.s. Patent Recipients For the First Time
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China Becomes One of the Top 5 ­.s. Patent Recipients For the First Time

Chinese companies have increased the number of U.S. patents they've received by tenfold in less than 10 years, another sign that the world's second-largest economy...

Autos Overshadow the Small Gadgets at Ces Tech Show in Vegas
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Autos Overshadow the Small Gadgets at Ces Tech Show in Vegas

The smartphones and other small machines that used to dominate the annual CES gadget show have been overshadowed in recent years by bigger mobile devices: namely...

Intel's New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever
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Intel's New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever

This week, Intel will show off a chip that learns to recognize objects in pictures captured by a webcam. Nothing fancy about that, except that the chip uses about...

The Real Future of Work
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The Real Future of Work

In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater
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Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater

One blue surgical drape at a time, the patient disappeared, until all that showed was a triangle of her shaved scalp.  

Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's Resolution Is a Huge Deal for Facebook, and the World
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Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's Resolution Is a Huge Deal for Facebook, and the World

Each January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rings in the New Year with a personal challenge, like learning Mandarin, running 365 miles, or building an artificially...

Inside the Lab Where Amazon's Alexa Takes Over The World
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Inside the Lab Where Amazon's Alexa Takes Over The World

When it first launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment.

Students Build Supercomputer Cluster from Raspberry Pi Boards
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Students Build Supercomputer Cluster from Raspberry Pi Boards

Ohio State University students built the Buckeye Pi supercomputer with 128 off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi circuit boards.

­w Reality Lab Launches with $6m from Tech Companies to Advance Ar and Vr Research
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­w Reality Lab Launches with $6m from Tech Companies to Advance Ar and Vr Research

The University of Washington is launching a new augmented and virtual reality research center — funded by Facebook, Google, and Huawei — to accelerate innovation...

Can Washington Be Automated?
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Can Washington Be Automated?

It's a brisk late November afternoon in an 8th-floor office overlooking downtown Washington's Thomas Circle. The White House is an easy five block walk; the Hart...

Tweaking Quantum Dots Powers-­p Double-Pane Solar Windows
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Tweaking Quantum Dots Powers-­p Double-Pane Solar Windows

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and also create shading and...

8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018
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8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018

It was a very strange year for technology companies. They have become a "bipartisan whipping boy," a new sexist institution, responsible for the muddying of the...

Beijing to Build $2 Billion AI Technology Park
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Beijing to Build $2 Billion AI Technology Park

Beijing is planning to build a 13.8 billion yuan (US$2.12 billion) artificial intelligence development park, the Xinhua news agency reports, as China pushes to...

How a Researcher Hacked His Own Computer and Found 'worst' Chip Flaw
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How a Researcher Hacked His Own Computer and Found 'worst' Chip Flaw

Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel...

A Visit to Facebook's Recently Opened Center For Deleting Content
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A Visit to Facebook's Recently Opened Center For Deleting Content

For the first time, Facebook granted journalists access to its new center in Essen, Germany for deleting content from its platform. In the five-story building,...

Tulane Awarded $3.67 Million Grant For Quantum Computer Programming Tools
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Tulane Awarded $3.67 Million Grant For Quantum Computer Programming Tools

Tulane University professor Michael Mislove has received a $3.67 million grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to help develop tools and related...

Research Reveals 'shocking' Weakness of Lab Courses
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Research Reveals 'shocking' Weakness of Lab Courses

Higher education lab courses would seem to have the advantage on hands-on, active learning, but new research reveals traditional labs fall far short of their pedagogical...

The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare
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The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare

Several months after the WannaCry cyber-attack, much of the world still seems to be asleep to the potential catastrophic effects of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure...

Nsa Is Losing Top Talent At A Worrisome Rate
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Nsa Is Losing Top Talent At A Worrisome Rate

The U.S. National Security Agency is losing its top talent at a worrisome rate as highly skilled personnel take higher-paying, more flexible jobs in the private...

At This Camp, Kids Learn Computer Science (without Computers)
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At This Camp, Kids Learn Computer Science (without Computers)

Miryung Kim of UCLA uses blocks, stickers, and large pieces of paper to explain distributed and parallel computing  to kids at the Mommy Computer Science Camp. ...
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