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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy
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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy

The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...

Google Glasses Head to Ballpark With Oakland A's Pitchers
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Google Glasses Head to Ballpark With Oakland A's Pitchers

There are a lot of places where Google Glasses are prohibited, but the Oakland A's bullpen is not one of them. A's pitchers Ryan Cook and Sean Doolittle are the...

Image-Processing 1,000 Times Faster Is Goal of $5m DARPA Contract
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Image-Processing 1,000 Times Faster Is Goal of $5m DARPA Contract

A University of Michigan researcher is leading a project to build alternative computer hardware that could process images and video 1,000 times faster with 10,000...

Dragonflies Can See By Switching 'on' And 'off'
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Dragonflies Can See By Switching 'on' And 'off'

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered a novel and complex visual circuit in a dragonfly's brain that could one day help to improve vision...

Robot Classes in China Set Students ­p For Future Careers
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Robot Classes in China Set Students ­p For Future Careers

Many primary and middle schools in China are providing robot education to students. Lego, the largest educational robot provider in China, says there are now...

Owner of Snowden's Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov't
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Owner of Snowden's Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov't

Lavabit, an encrypted email service believed to have been used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, has abruptly shut down.

Berlin Start-Ups: Cool and Commerce Coming Together?
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Berlin Start-Ups: Cool and Commerce Coming Together?

When new businesses based on the computer chip began to cluster in Santa Clara Valley, it did not take long for someone to come up with the name Silicon Valley....

Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought
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Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought

Since 1948, when Claude Shannon's seminal paper on information theory first appeared, most information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes have depended on a common...

Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free with New Communication Technique
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Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free with New Communication Technique

University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries...

The Best Way to Teach Kids Math and Science? Zombies
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The Best Way to Teach Kids Math and Science? Zombies

Texas Instruments, the company that made the graphing calculator the most ubiquitous learning tool since the book, is giving teachers everywhere an invaluable...

As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House
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As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House

Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people.

New Electron Beam Writer Enables Next-Gen Information Technologies
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New Electron Beam Writer Enables Next-Gen Information Technologies

The new electron beam writer housed in the Nano3 cleanroom facility at the University of California, San Diego's Qualcomm Institute is important for two major areas...

Hackers Called Into Civic Duty
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Hackers Called Into Civic Duty

Cash-strapped cities are turning to an unusual source to improve their online services on the cheap: helpful hackers, who use city data to create tools tracking...

Google to Quintuple Some Bug Bounties
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Google to Quintuple Some Bug Bounties

Two million bucks doled out in increments of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars is no quick way to make a fortune.

Cybersecurity Pros in High Demand, Highly Paid, and Highly Selective
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Cybersecurity Pros in High Demand, Highly Paid, and Highly Selective

The demand for cybersecurity professionals is outpacing other technology jobs by a wide margin, according to a Semper Secure survey. Cybersecurity professionals...

Attracting the Next Cybersecurity Pros
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Attracting the Next Cybersecurity Pros

Winnie Callahan, director for business, education, government, and health innovations at the University of Southern California Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute...

Linkedin Connects Big Data, Human Resources
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Linkedin Connects Big Data, Human Resources

Every second, more than two more people join LinkedIn's network of 238 million members.

Pgp Inventor and Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann on the Surveillance Society
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Pgp Inventor and Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann on the Surveillance Society

Phil Zimmermann might be a technologist, but he tends to get philosophical when it comes to the issues of privacy and security and how they intersect with our society...

Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost
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Coding For Brain Chips Gives Cognitive Computing Boost

It's a cognitive leap forward. IBM can now program an experimental chip they unveiled two years ago.

Exotic Optics: Metamaterial World
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Exotic Optics: Metamaterial World

Tom Driscoll would be happy if he never heard the phrase "Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak" again.
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