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Actual Race on Moon Could Decide Lunar Xprize Winner
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Actual Race on Moon Could Decide Lunar Xprize Winner

We may be on for an actual space race. Two competitors for the Google Lunar XPrize say they will buddy up to get their rovers to the moon by the end of next year...

Rivals Google and Apple Fight For the Dashboard
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Rivals Google and Apple Fight For the Dashboard

When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.

School Computer Coding Bill Passes First Vote in ­tah Senate
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School Computer Coding Bill Passes First Vote in ­tah Senate

The Utah Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would create a computer science initiative requiring a range of computer science instructional resources...

Intel Forges Ahead to 10nm, Will Move Away from Silicon at 7nm
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Intel Forges Ahead to 10nm, Will Move Away from Silicon at 7nm

This week at the 2015 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel will provide an update on its new 10nm manufacturing process and new research...

Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things
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Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from...

Us Regulators Try to Tame 'wild West' of Dna Testing
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Us Regulators Try to Tame 'wild West' of Dna Testing

Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict how it will affect his or her health.

The Sound of Intellect: Job Seeker's Voice Reveals Intelligence
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The Sound of Intellect: Job Seeker's Voice Reveals Intelligence

A new study finds that people rate job candidates as more competent, thoughtful, and intelligent when they hear the person's pitch than when they read it.

Radio Chip For the 'internet of Things'
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Radio Chip For the 'internet of Things'

Researchers have developed a circuit whose leakage power is reduced when its transmitters are idle, which could greatly extend battery life.

Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome
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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome

The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...

Magic Leap
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Magic Leap

Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.

Dhs Licenses Malware Detection Tech to Cyber Security Company
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Dhs Licenses Malware Detection Tech to Cyber Security Company

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has licensed a cyber security technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...

Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light

Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.

White House Names Nation's First Chief Data Scientist
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White House Names Nation's First Chief Data Scientist

Taking a page from Silicon Valley's playbook, the White House said on Wednesday it had appointed the nation's first chief data scientist.

Semiconductor Works Better When Hitched to Graphene
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Semiconductor Works Better When Hitched to Graphene

Experiments at the  SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory should help the design of more efficient graphene based organic electronic devices.

Overcoming Our E-Waste Problem
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Overcoming Our E-Waste Problem

Old electronics clutter our landfills, junk drawers, and storage closets, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?
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Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?

An MIT team has created a "robot garden" with dozens of fast-changing LED lights and more than 100 crawling, swimming, and blooming origami robots to teach basic...

Why We Should Design Some Things to Be Difficult to ­se
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Why We Should Design Some Things to Be Difficult to ­se

The first car I ever drove was a bashed Land Rover Defender.

A New Spin on Spintronics
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A New Spin on Spintronics

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University is exploring new materials that could yield higher computational speeds...

Smarter Multicore Chips
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Smarter Multicore Chips

MIT researchers have developed a technique manages and monitors the threads and data of multicore chips to allow frequent full-chip reconfigurations to improve...

Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker

Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...
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