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Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results
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Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results

A classroom design competition involving cellular-networking protocols turned two teams of MIT undergraduates into co-authors of a paper published in the ACM SIGCOMM...

Computing Tames Big Data For Smarter Health Care
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Computing Tames Big Data For Smarter Health Care

As the United States strives to improve health care, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is using computing to delve deeper into big health data and is proposing innovative...

For Sale: Systems that Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone ­sers Go Around the Globe
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For Sale: Systems that Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone ­sers Go Around the Globe

Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they...

Combining Math and Music
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Combining Math and Music

Eugenia Cheng is adept at relating just about anything to mathematics, including tea, pizza, wine, and music.

Roots of a High-Tech Revolution
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Roots of a High-Tech Revolution

Chuck Hull, 75, is co-founder and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is the inventor of the 3-D printer, which recently celebrated its 31st anniversary.

Game-Like Captcha Lets Computers Know You Are Human
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Game-Like Captcha Lets Computers Know You Are Human

A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is investigating security and usability of next-generation CAPTCHAs based on simple computer games.

Shaping the Future of Nanocrystals
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Shaping the Future of Nanocrystals

The first direct observations of how facets form and develop on platinum nanocubes point the way towards more sophisticated and effective nanocrystal design.

China Targets Own Operating System to Take on Likes of Microsoft, Google
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China Targets Own Operating System to Take on Likes of Microsoft, Google

China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said...

A Chinese Internet Giant Starts to Dream
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A Chinese Internet Giant Starts to Dream

Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...

Is Emailing Your Brainwaves the Future of Communication?
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Is Emailing Your Brainwaves the Future of Communication?

Here's something you probably didn't expect in your inbox: Researchers have now developed a way to email brainwaves.

Enabling a New Future For Cloud Computing
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Enabling a New Future For Cloud Computing

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced two $10 million projects to create cloud computing testbeds that will enable the research community to develop...

Want a Happy Worker? Let Robots Take Control
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Want a Happy Worker? Let Robots Take Control

New research by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests that workers prefer letting robots have control over human tasks in manufacturing...

Acme Project Will Develop Accurate Earth System Models
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Acme Project Will Develop Accurate Earth System Models

The U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories will develop the most complete climate and Earth system model to help address climate change issues.

Listening In: The Navy Is Tracking Ocean Sounds Collected By Scientists
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Listening In: The Navy Is Tracking Ocean Sounds Collected By Scientists

In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.

Vexed in the City: Starved For Tech Talent and Yet Nobody to Hire?
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Vexed in the City: Starved For Tech Talent and Yet Nobody to Hire?

Darin Wedel made headlines in 2012 when his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a Google+ Hangout why her husband was still out of work while H-1B...

Delivery By Drone
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Delivery By Drone

A new algorithm lets drones monitor "health" issues such as fuel levels, the condition of their propellers, cameras, and other sensors throughout long package-delivery...

An App Maker Hangs On Amid War in ­kraine
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An App Maker Hangs On Amid War in ­kraine

App maker Readdle sounds like a classic success story from Silicon Valley: In 2007, four young techies get together to pioneer business productivity tools for the...

For Big-Data Scientists, 'janitor Work' Is Key Hurdle to Insights
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For Big-Data Scientists, 'janitor Work' Is Key Hurdle to Insights

Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps.

The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career
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The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career

Jim Yurchenco was responsible for squeezing the guts inside the impossibly slim Palm V.

Vast Majority of Hackers Believe They're Above the Law—survey
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Vast Majority of Hackers Believe They're Above the Law—survey

When most hackers are infiltrating computer systems, the last thing on their mind is getting caught, according to new data.
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