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Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029

In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...

Texas School Offers First-of-a-Kind Data Center Engineering Degree
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Texas School Offers First-of-a-Kind Data Center Engineering Degree

Southern Methodist University says it will offer a first-of-its-kind graduate degree in data center engineering, with classes starting this fall.

Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
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Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within

After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...

The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent
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The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent

Bram Cohen sits at a round desk, surrounded by a pod of open cubicles.

One-Hit Wonders
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One-Hit Wonders

For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...

Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
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Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future

It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...

Squeezing Light Into Metals
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Squeezing Light Into Metals

University of Utah electrical engineers used an inexpensive inkjet printer to produce microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information.

Stanford Engineers Create a Software Tool to Reduce the Cost of Cloud Computing
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Stanford Engineers Create a Software Tool to Reduce the Cost of Cloud Computing

We hear a lot about the future of computing in the cloud, but not much about the efficiency of the data centers that make the cloud possible.

Language Barriers
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Language Barriers

The British scientist and polymath Stephen Wolfram has always had big ambitions.

Computer Science Students Help Singers Learn Their Vowels
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Computer Science Students Help Singers Learn Their Vowels

Voice students who want to perfect how they sing their vowels can get help from a new free application called Vowel Shapes developed by a group of University of...

Robotic Prosthesis Turns Drummer Into a Three-Armed Cyborg
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Robotic Prosthesis Turns Drummer Into a Three-Armed Cyborg

Professor Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech has created a robotic drumming prosthesis that can be attached to an amputee to allow for more control and creativity with...

Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield
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Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield

An electromagnetic mystery in northern Iraq changed the course of Jesse Potter's life.

Computer Coding More in Demand Than Languages, Survey Shows
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Computer Coding More in Demand Than Languages, Survey Shows

Software programming should take priority over modern languages in British schools, according to a Code.org survey of more than 2,000 adults across the United Kingdom...

Interviewing the Algorithm
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Interviewing the Algorithm

Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.

The Face Behind Bitcoin
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The Face Behind Bitcoin

Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old Japanese-American former defense contractor living in a modest Temple City, Calif. suburban home. Speaking with...

Social Physics
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Social Physics

Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...

Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget
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Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget

A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.

Workshop Reviews Big Data Privacy Policy
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Workshop Reviews Big Data Privacy Policy

MIT hosted a daylong workshop on big data and privacy, co-sponsored by the White House, as part of a 90-day review of data privacy policy announced in January...

Cleanroom Inventor Honored Posthumously By National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Cleanroom Inventor Honored Posthumously By National Inventors Hall of Fame

The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized...

Remembering Mit, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000
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Remembering Mit, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000

When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.
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