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Instant-Start Computers Possible with New Breakthrough
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Instant-Start Computers Possible with New Breakthrough

A team at Cornell University has developed a way to encode data without current in a room-temperature magnetoelectric memory device, a breakthrough that could...

In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch ­p to Primate Brain
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In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch ­p to Primate Brain

A new study from MIT neuroscientists has found that a latest generation of computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain.

Compugirls: Young Women Have Role to Play in Technology Field
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Compugirls: Young Women Have Role to Play in Technology Field

CompuGirls is an NSF-funded organization based at Arizona State University that provides girls aged eight to 12 from under-resourced schools with activities to...

Designing a Computer That Turns Murky Instructions Into Data Visualizations
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Designing a Computer That Turns Murky Instructions Into Data Visualizations

Scientists wish they could ask a computer a question and have it respond with an answer presented in an easy-to-understand picture. A U.S. National Science Foundation...

Women in Tech: Change the Conversation
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Women in Tech: Change the Conversation

At the G20 Summit-sponsored Women in Leadership conference in Brisbane, Australia in November, leaders pledged to reduce the gender gap in workforce participation...

­niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups
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­niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups

Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.

How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer
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How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer

Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.

How Information Moves Between Cultures
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How Information Moves Between Cultures

The strength of connections between languages in a network are better predictors of a language's global influence than either the population or the wealth of...

Fsu Program to Address Growing Demand For Drone Operators
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Fsu Program to Address Growing Demand For Drone Operators

Florida State University is set to launch a new program that will have students excited about their instructors droning on and on. A new course, Introduction to...

Flock of Geneticists Redraws Bird Family Tree
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Flock of Geneticists Redraws Bird Family Tree

Evolutionary geneticist Tom Gilbert was sipping a coffee in Madrid five years ago when an idea hit him—literally. "A pigeon crapped on me," he says, "and I thought...

Getting Bot Responders Into Shape
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Getting Bot Responders Into Shape

Through a project supported by DARPA, Sandia National Labs is developing technology to improve the endurance of legged robots to help them operate for long periods...

A Web App That Visualizes Wikipedia as a Starry Galaxy of Articles
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A Web App That Visualizes Wikipedia as a Starry Galaxy of Articles

Useful as it may be, Wikipedia is an eyesore.

The Future of ­.s. Innovation Might Rest on This Obscure Patent Lawsuit
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The Future of ­.s. Innovation Might Rest on This Obscure Patent Lawsuit

Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush....

Findings Could Point the Way to 'Valleytronics'
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Findings Could Point the Way to 'Valleytronics'

Researchers have cleared a path toward a new kind of 2-D microchip that would use  characteristics of electrons other than their electrical charge. Dubbed "valleytronics...

Material Question
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Material Question

 Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...

When a Chart Is Worth a Thousand Words
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When a Chart Is Worth a Thousand Words

A decade ago, data analysis was a chore. Workers poured figures into Excel and then spent hours searching for patterns.

More-Flexible Digital Communication
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More-Flexible Digital Communication

Researchers have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate, with very real implications for...

What Are Moocs Good For?
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What Are Moocs Good For?

A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...

Colleges, Labs Develop STEM Core Curriculum
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Colleges, Labs Develop STEM Core Curriculum

A consortium of community colleges, national labs, and nonprofit educational institutes in California are pushing to create an educational core curriculum to...

Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat

Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.
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