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Weather Supercomputing Facility Opens in Wyoming
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Weather Supercomputing Facility Opens in Wyoming

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, which houses one of the world's most powerful supercomputers dedicated to the geosciences, officially opened on Monday...

Can Apple Win Over China?
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Can Apple Win Over China?

Tim Cook, Apple's reserved and soft-spoken CEO, has a tendency to wax euphoric about the China market and his company's place in it.

Freezing Electrons in Flight
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Freezing Electrons in Flight

Using the world's fastest laser pulses, which can freeze the ultrafast motion of electrons and atoms, UA physicists have caught the action of molecules breaking...

Why Becoming a Data Scientist Might Be Easier than You Think
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Why Becoming a Data Scientist Might Be Easier than You Think

Several novice programmers who signed up for a free machine-learning class on Coursera have gone on recently to win predictive-modeling competitions.

Japan's Once Mighty Tech Industry Has Fallen Far Behind Silicon Valley
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Japan's Once Mighty Tech Industry Has Fallen Far Behind Silicon Valley

In the 1980s, Sony co-founder Akio Morita fired a verbal missile across the Pacific at Silicon Valley: Japan's supremacy in business and technology would overwhelm...

Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics
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Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics

Berkeley Lab Researchers unlock ferromagnetic secrets of promising materials.

Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo
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Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo

On a Friday morning in late August, six weeks into her new job as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer was brainstorming about how to make the company innovative again.

NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength
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NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength

Marvel Comics' fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman strength.

Redefining Medicine With Apps and Ipads
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Redefining Medicine With Apps and Ipads

Dr. Alvin Rajkomar was doing rounds with his team at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center when he came upon a puzzling case: a frail, elderly...

Is New York’s Digital Boom Slowing Down?
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Is New York’s Digital Boom Slowing Down?

Want a job at a digital company based in New York City? You should have been looking earlier this year, says a headhunting shop.

It Workers Staying Put, Cios Staying Longer
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It Workers Staying Put, Cios Staying Longer

Staff turnover in IT departments averaged 5.2% this year, which is below the average measured over the past seven years,  according to an annual report by the...

'invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics
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'invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics

An MIT team applies technology developed for visual "cloaking" to enable particles to "hide" from passing electrons, which could lead to more efficient thermoelectric...

Computational Model Ids Potential Pathways to Improve Plant Oil Production
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Computational Model Ids Potential Pathways to Improve Plant Oil Production

Simulated seeds help scientists explore how plants "balance the books" between oil and protein production.

What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?
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What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?

What are the next Big Things in science and technology? Teleportation? Unlimited clean Energy? The scientists and researchers at DARPA and the White House Office...

Hacker Wins $60,000 Prize for Breaking into Google Chrome
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Hacker Wins $60,000 Prize for Breaking into Google Chrome

Hack into Google Chrome, and you could win $60,000, at least if you do it through Google's Pwnium 2 competition.

The Cities With the Most Computer Science Jobs
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The Cities With the Most Computer Science Jobs

Washington, D.C., with its many defense contractors and government jobs, is the leading city in the United States for computer science jobs. Other top metropolitan...

Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
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Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged

IT workers who work remotely are actually more engaged and more committed to their work than their counterparts who work in the office. Not only that, they also...

To This Agency, There's Only One Way to Operate: Precisely
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To This Agency, There's Only One Way to Operate: Precisely

David Wineland is the American half of the scientific duo celebrating the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday.

Grad Schools Add Big-Data Degrees
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Grad Schools Add Big-Data Degrees

Master's degree programs in analytics emerge amid projections of a talent shortage — and in response to lobbying by big companies.

Robots ­sing Tools: Researchers Aim to Create 'macgyver' Robot
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Robots ­sing Tools: Researchers Aim to Create 'macgyver' Robot

A Georgia Tech research team has received a grant from the Office of Naval Research to work on a project that intends to teach robots how to use objects in their...
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