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A Data-Crunching Prize to Cut Flight Delays
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A Data-Crunching Prize to Cut Flight Delays

A team from Singapore is taking home a $100,000 prize for developing an algorithm that could help airlines better predict flight arrival times and reduce passenger...

Opening a Gateway For Girls to Enter the Computer Field
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Opening a Gateway For Girls to Enter the Computer Field

When Julia Geist was asked to draw a picture of a computer scientist last year, the 16-year-old sketched a businessman wearing glasses and a tie.

Visa Demand Jumps
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Visa Demand Jumps

For the first time since the financial crisis, U.S. employers are expected within days to reach a limit on the yearly allotment of applications for coveted skilled...

3-D Cooling Could Improve Heat Dissipation in High-Powered Chips
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3-D Cooling Could Improve Heat Dissipation in High-Powered Chips

Researchers at Georgia Tech have won a three-year, $2.9 million DARPA contract to develop three-dimensional chip-cooling technology able to handle heat loads...

Over Half of It Workforce ­nhappy With Salary
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Over Half of It Workforce ­nhappy With Salary

Over half of the IT workforce in the U.K. feels they are underpaid, according to a new survey that found that only 47% of employees in the IT sector are happy with...

No More Robocalls: New Tech Automatically Hangs ­p On Robots
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No More Robocalls: New Tech Automatically Hangs ­p On Robots

Every month, the Federal Trade Commission receives 200,000 complaints about illegal robocalls, making it the most common problem reported to the FTC.

Free Online Courses Mean College Will Never Be the Same
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Free Online Courses Mean College Will Never Be the Same

Depending on who you're listening to, Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, are either the greatest boon to the spread of knowledge since Gutenberg cranked his...

Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'
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Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'

d Boyden tilts his head downward, remaining still except for his eyes, which dart back and forth between blinks for a full 10 seconds. Then, as if coming up for...

Students Have Engineering on the Brain
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Students Have Engineering on the Brain

MIT's "Neurotechnology Ventures" class offers students a chance to create businesses based on their study of the brain, psychology, artificial intelligence, neurobiology...

Professor Invents Portable Mobility Assistant Device
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Professor Invents Portable Mobility Assistant Device

Looking to assist the more than two million elderly people in the United States who find it difficult to rise from a chair without assistance, Stony Brook University...

Teacher's Vision, but Done New York City's Way
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Teacher's Vision, but Done New York City's Way

At last year's State of the City speech, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the creation of a public high school called the Academy for Software Engineering.

Vcs Bet Big Bucks on Hadoop
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Vcs Bet Big Bucks on Hadoop

Venture capitalists are pouring millions of dollars into startups that are betting their futures on the powerful data tool called Hadoop. The tool holds promise...

The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind
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The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind

I recently watched my sister perform an act of magic.

Quantum Dot Commands Light
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Quantum Dot Commands Light

Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute, led by Professor Edo Waks, have experimentally realized an ultrafast logic gate on a photon, using a semiconductor quantum...

Youth Flock to Mobile Messaging Apps, May Be Threat to Facebook
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Youth Flock to Mobile Messaging Apps, May Be Threat to Facebook

Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music.

Welcome to the Mind-Bending World of Cloud-on-Cloud Computing
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Welcome to the Mind-Bending World of Cloud-on-Cloud Computing

John Engates is the chief technology officer at Rackspace, and even he had trouble wrapping his mind around the way his company runs its most important of technologies...

Silicon Valley Tech Firms Boosting Perks to Recruit, Retain
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Silicon Valley Tech Firms Boosting Perks to Recruit, Retain

Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander.

How to Make Your Mark in Professional Basketball at 5′ 9″
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How to Make Your Mark in Professional Basketball at 5′ 9″

Growing up in India, Vasu Kulkarni was the self-proclaimed "biggest basketball fan in the world."

The Story of My App
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The Story of My App

Recently, I created an app called Petting Zoo. It is an interactive app for iPhones and iPads, and creating it was a difficult but interesting process.

Researchers Find Surprising Similarities Between Genetic and Computer Codes
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Researchers Find Surprising Similarities Between Genetic and Computer Codes

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory found a surprising similarity between two complex systems: bacterial genomes and...
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