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Death By Robot
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Death By Robot

Imagine it's a Sunday in the not-too-distant future.

Putting the Mobile Into Automobile
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Putting the Mobile Into Automobile

In 2007, Bill Gates stepped onstage at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to help introduce Sync, a combination GPS navigator, digital music...

The Biggest Cyberthreat to Companies Could Come From the Inside
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The Biggest Cyberthreat to Companies Could Come From the Inside

Companies spend billions of dollars each year to protect from determined hackers attacking from across the Internet, but experts warn they shouldn't ignore a closer...

What Do Consumers Want? Better Batteries, Not Wearables
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What Do Consumers Want? Better Batteries, Not Wearables

The top tech need on the mind of most Americans isn't sharper televisions, smarter watches.

A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers

Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.

How to Design the Fighter Cockpit of Tomorrow
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How to Design the Fighter Cockpit of Tomorrow

If you think your office needs a lick of paint and some new furniture, spare a thought for fighter pilots.

This Year's Ces Anxiety: Ending ­p Like Tv Makers
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This Year's Ces Anxiety: Ending ­p Like Tv Makers

The International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas’s annual gadget cornucopia, kicks off this week.

Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds

The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.

E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships
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E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships

Loc Tran is a big man on campus at San Jose State University in Northern California.

Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching
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Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching

Are you perusing LinkedIn at work more than usual?

Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles
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Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles

The ​Daily Paywall is a new website that's loaded with tens of thousands of pirated articles from some of the world's top paywalled newspapers, and its proprietor...

Nyc Subways Slowly ­pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology
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Nyc Subways Slowly ­pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology

New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...

Designing a Computer That Turns Murky Instructions Into Data Visualizations
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Designing a Computer That Turns Murky Instructions Into Data Visualizations

Scientists wish they could ask a computer a question and have it respond with an answer presented in an easy-to-understand picture. A U.S. National Science Foundation...

How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer
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How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer

Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.

A Web App That Visualizes Wikipedia as a Starry Galaxy of Articles
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A Web App That Visualizes Wikipedia as a Starry Galaxy of Articles

Useful as it may be, Wikipedia is an eyesore.

What Are Moocs Good For?
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What Are Moocs Good For?

A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...

Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat

Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.

Get Your Head Around the 13 Boldest Ideas in Science
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Get Your Head Around the 13 Boldest Ideas in Science

Science is full of mind-blowing and counterintuitive concepts.

Apple and IBM Introduce First Offerings in Line of Mobile Apps For Business
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Apple and IBM Introduce First Offerings in Line of Mobile Apps For Business

For years, there has been a lot of talk about the consumerization of technology in the workplace. But so far, that has mostly meant employees using smartphones...

Power to the Internet of Things
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Power to the Internet of Things

As many as 50 billion devices will be online by the end of the decade.
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