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Snowden Leaks: The Man Who Watches Over the Nsa
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Snowden Leaks: The Man Who Watches Over the Nsa

Whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations have revealed that a huge capability resides within America's National Security Agency to collect and analyse communications...

How Politics Divide Facebook Friendships
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How Politics Divide Facebook Friendships

Facebook could help diffuse possible arguments and alleviate tension between friends by displaying their shared interests during confrontational conversations,...

12 Predictions For the Future of Programming
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12 Predictions For the Future of Programming

Forecasting the next hit technology is challenging due to the rapid pace of change, but InfoWorld offers 12 predictions for the future of programming over the next...

Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device
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Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device

Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons...

New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
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New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time

Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. 

Dropbox Ceo Drew Houston
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Dropbox Ceo Drew Houston

Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the cloud and sync new versions across multiple devicesHiding...

Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense

As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...

Why Google Kept Motorola's Research Lab
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Why Google Kept Motorola's Research Lab

Google's $2.9 billion sale of Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC maker Lenovo might seem like lousy business, given Google's $12.5 billion purchase in 2012 and losses...

Materials Database Proves Its Mettle With New Discoveries
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Materials Database Proves Its Mettle With New Discoveries

A massive computerized database and simulation system can sort through thousands of materials and help materials scientists identify those that could improve the...

Scientists Reading Fewer Papers For First Time in 35 Years
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Scientists Reading Fewer Papers For First Time in 35 Years

A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to have halted.

New Technique Grows Tiny 'Hairy' Materials at the Microscale
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New Technique Grows Tiny 'Hairy' Materials at the Microscale

Materials scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have announced a technique for growing tiny "hairy" materials that assemble themselves at the microscale...

In the Eye of the Beholder
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In the Eye of the Beholder

Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...

Capturing Football's Snaps, Crackles, and Pops in Madden Nfl
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Capturing Football's Snaps, Crackles, and Pops in Madden Nfl

The football players strutted down a 40-yard strip of synthetic turf, yelling, jumping and flailing their arms to whip the fans into a frenzy.

3-D Scanning, With Your Smartphone
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3-D Scanning, With Your Smartphone

Startup Viztu Technologies developed commercial software that generated 3-D models from 2-D photos.  

How to Make Money Finding Bugs in Software
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How to Make Money Finding Bugs in Software

The first computer bug was found in 1947 when a moth got caught in one of the relays of the Harvard Mark II.

Painting Robot Lends Surgeons a Hand
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Painting Robot Lends Surgeons a Hand

A robot invented by a Wake Forest University student could help teach doctors how to perform complex, robot-assisted surgeries.

Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
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Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries.

Tech's Diversity Problem Is Apparent as Early as High School
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Tech's Diversity Problem Is Apparent as Early as High School

In three states, not a single girl took the Advanced Placement exam in computer science last year. In eight states, no Hispanic students took it. And in 11 states...

'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets
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'honey Encryption' Will Bamboozle Attackers with Fake Secrets

Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography...

Computer Power Clicks with Geochemistry
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Computer Power Clicks with Geochemistry

Sandia National Laboratories is developing computer models that show how radioactive waste interacts with soil and sediments, shedding light on waste disposal and...
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