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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change

After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.

In Silicon Valley, Coders Are Making More Room For Curators
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In Silicon Valley, Coders Are Making More Room For Curators

It's been almost a decade since the debut of the Netflix Prize, a $1 million bounty for the person or group that could best improve the company’s movie suggestion...

The Team That Keep a Watchful Eye on the Iss
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The Team That Keep a Watchful Eye on the Iss

In a darkened room, deep within the high-security perimeter of Redstone Arsenal, a US army base in Huntsville, Alabama, eight men and women sit behind concave banks...

Fau to Develop ­nmanned Marine Vehicles For Bridge Inspections
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Fau to Develop ­nmanned Marine Vehicles For Bridge Inspections

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University have received a $187,000 grant from the Florida Department of Transportation to research and develop the use of unmanned...

Lessons from the Digital Classroom
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Lessons from the Digital Classroom

In four small schools scattered across San Francisco, a data experiment is under way.

Ultrafast Device Has Speed, Efficiency to Serve Optical Computers
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Ultrafast Device Has Speed, Efficiency to Serve Optical Computers

Researchers have developed an ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second and could form the basis of optical computing.

The Algorithm of Writing
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The Algorithm of Writing

A University of Delaware researcher studies teachers' use of automated essay scoring software. 

Ornl Researchers Make Scalable Arrays of 'building Blocks' For Ultrathin Electronics
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Ornl Researchers Make Scalable Arrays of 'building Blocks' For Ultrathin Electronics

Researchers demonstrated an approach to forming lithographically patterned arrays of lateral semiconducting heterojunctions within a single two-dimensional crystal...

Object Recognition For Robots
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Object Recognition For Robots

Researchers at MIT have developed a SLAM-aware monocular object recognition system that achieves stronger performance than classical object recognition systems...

Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits
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Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits

If you visit Softbank's flagship store in downtown Tokyo, you may be greeted by a charming, slightly manic new member of the staff: a gleaming white humanoid robot...

Decoding the Remarkable Algorithms of Ants
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Decoding the Remarkable Algorithms of Ants

Ants are capable of remarkable feats of coordination.

The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the ­gliest Corners of the Internet
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The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the ­gliest Corners of the Internet

When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...

Bubblesort Zines Lure Teen Girls to Computer Science
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Bubblesort Zines Lure Teen Girls to Computer Science

Amy Wibowo knew, even as a kid, that computer science was a magical intersection of math, science, and pictures.

Joe Girardi Adds 'app Designer' to Résumé
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Joe Girardi Adds 'app Designer' to Résumé

Though not a tech savant, the Yankee manager is the brains behind a new mobile baseball game.

Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance

Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...

The Martian's Andy Weir Is All Buddy-Buddy with Nasa
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The Martian's Andy Weir Is All Buddy-Buddy with Nasa

When sci-fi author Andy Weir went to visit mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, the International Space Station was going through a crisis—an air leak...

The Next Macgyver Will Be a Woman
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The Next Macgyver Will Be a Woman

Twelve finalists will travel to Hollywood this month to compete in "The Next MacGyver" competition, an incubator for television shows that aim to excite and recruit...

The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked
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The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked

It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...

Simulations Lead to Design of Near-Frictionless Material
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Simulations Lead to Design of Near-Frictionless Material

Argonne scientists used the Mira supercomputer to identify and improve a new mechanism for eliminating friction, which fed into the development of a hybrid material...

Tech's New Talent Pool: Iran
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Tech's New Talent Pool: Iran

Iran's nuclear nonproliferation agreement with the U.S. could make it easier for U.S. technology companies to recruit engineers from Iran, a country of 80 million...
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