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'stem Careers' Means Engineering to Parents, Not Teaching
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'stem Careers' Means Engineering to Parents, Not Teaching

Although 90 percent of parents said they would encourage their children to pursue a career in STEM, only 9 percent said they would encourage their children to become...

Decoding Harvard's Computer Science Gender Gap
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Decoding Harvard's Computer Science Gender Gap

Harvard, which faces a stark gender inequality in its Computer Science Department, has begun to focus on bridging the gender gap and encouraging more women to join...

To Keep America Safe, Embrace Drone Warfare
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To Keep America Safe, Embrace Drone Warfare

"Are you sure they're there?" the decision maker asks. "They" are Qaeda operatives who have been planning attacks against the United States.

Moving Electrons Around Loops with Light
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Moving Electrons Around Loops with Light

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate a quantum logic operation, or rotation of the qubit, that is intrinsically resilient to noise as well as to...

Buildings Wrapped in High-Efficiency, Flexible Solar Cells? It Could Happen
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Buildings Wrapped in High-Efficiency, Flexible Solar Cells? It Could Happen

A patented breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology improves the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells by 50 percent, and could...

Virtual Reality Companies Look to Science Fiction For Their Next Play
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Virtual Reality Companies Look to Science Fiction For Their Next Play

Tech companies have spent years developing better, cheaper devices to immerse people in digital worlds. Yet they are still figuring out how to make virtual reality...

Ted 2016: Hololens ­nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
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Ted 2016: Hololens ­nveils 'teleportation' to Mars

HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.

Firms Step ­p Employee Monitoring at Work
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Firms Step ­p Employee Monitoring at Work

More companies are installing productivity-monitoring software on their employees' computers to figure out how they spend their time.

Bat-Inspired Design For Micro Air Vehicles
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Bat-Inspired Design For Micro Air Vehicles

Researchers from the University of Southampton have designed innovative membrane wings inspired by bats, paving the way for a new breed of unmanned Micro Air Vehicles...

The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of
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The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of

A little over a year ago, Apple had a problem: The iPad Pro was behind schedule.

New Projects Pair ­.s. Manufacturers with Hpc Resources
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New Projects Pair ­.s. Manufacturers with Hpc Resources

The U.S. Department of Energy's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program pairs selected companies with U.S. national labs to take on manufacturing...

The President's Nsa Advisory Board Finally Gets a Tech Expert
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The President's Nsa Advisory Board Finally Gets a Tech Expert

It's taken more than a decade, but a critical oversight board tasked with advising the president on the privacy and civil liberties implications of the NSA's surveillance...

Urban Miners Hunt For Gold in Piles of Electronic Trash
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Urban Miners Hunt For Gold in Piles of Electronic Trash

Wrapped in plastic and piled outside a warehouse in northern Taiwan are small mountains of notebook computers, PC displays, keyboards and old glass monitors.

Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade

Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.

Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament
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Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament

The United States Military Academy at West Point took home the top prize earlier this month in Pittsburgh at CyberStakes, the Pentagon's third annual top tier hacking...

Cyber Thieves Making Millions in Profits
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Cyber Thieves Making Millions in Profits

Cyber thieves who steal credit and debit card numbers are making millions of dollars in profits, fueling a global criminal enterprise marked by the high-profile...

Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams

MIT researchers have described a new way of modeling human-robot collaboration that reduces the need for communication by 60 percent, which could enable emergency...

5-D Data Storage Could Record the History of Humankind
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5-D Data Storage Could Record the History of Humankind

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

Young Scientists Poised to Ride the Gravitational Wave
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Young Scientists Poised to Ride the Gravitational Wave

The first direct detection of gravitational waves has opened a new window in physics and astronomy—rewarding a cohort of young researchers who gambled on finding...

Crunching Quantum Code
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Crunching Quantum Code

Theoretical physicists at MIT recently reported a quantum computer design and error correction method based on special electronic states called Majorana fermions...
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