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Why China May Have the Most Factory Robots in the World By 2017
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Why China May Have the Most Factory Robots in the World By 2017

Having devoured many of the world's factory jobs, China is now handing them over to robots.

Diagnosis By Keyboard
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Diagnosis By Keyboard

By revealing loss of motor skills, typing patterns may help to identify the early onset of Parkinson's.

Toolkits For the Mind
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Toolkits For the Mind

When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...

Students Drop Stereotypes After They 'meet the Scientist'
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Students Drop Stereotypes After They 'meet the Scientist'

Young people who thought scientists were "boring" and "nerdy" changed their minds and found them "normal" and "interesting" after having an opportunity to meet...

The Fascinating Story of the Man Who Invented Stereo (and Pioneered Tv and Radar Too)
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The Fascinating Story of the Man Who Invented Stereo (and Pioneered Tv and Radar Too)

When you're rocking out to your favourite music or surroundsound has slapped you in the heart of your favourite movie, you know how important stereo sound is.

Tweets Measure Political Polarization
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Tweets Measure Political Polarization

Spanish researchers analyzed 16 million tweets from more than 3 million users following the death of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to quantify the extent of political...

AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans

Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.

Study Provides New Insights on MOOCs
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Study Provides New Insights on MOOCs

A joint MIT and Harvard University research team's investigation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) based on two years of data found that many enrollees are...

After Snowden, the Nsa Faces Recruitment Challenge
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After Snowden, the Nsa Faces Recruitment Challenge

Daniel Swann is exactly the type of person the National Security Agency would love to have working for it.

Goodbye, EV Range Anxiety?
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Goodbye, EV Range Anxiety?

Electric vehicle batteries have a longer useful life than current standards suggest, according to researchers at Berkeley Lab and the University of California...

Smartphones Hit the Road For Distracted-Driving Research
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Smartphones Hit the Road For Distracted-Driving Research

Research built custom, smartphone-based driving monitors to record the behavior of teens and seniors, the two groups most likely to be involved in motor-vehicle...

Hi-Tech and Big Data Offer Hope to Battered ­.s. Oil Industry
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Hi-Tech and Big Data Offer Hope to Battered ­.s. Oil Industry

The tech geeks are coming to the oil industry's rescue.

Reviewing Online Homework at Scale
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Reviewing Online Homework at Scale

The OverCode system examines thousands of programming solutions by MOOC students and identifies broad trends to give teachers a high-level view of students' understanding...

Top Jobs For Stem: Big Data, It Product Management
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Top Jobs For Stem: Big Data, It Product Management

A recent Corporate Executive Board report highlighted seven core technology and engineering functions that will experience growth over the next 15 years driven...

Silicon Valley Gender Gap Is Widening
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Silicon Valley Gender Gap Is Widening

A report from the American Association of University Women warns that the gender gap in the technology sector is widening.

How Facebook's Chief Geek Will Meld Reality with the Oculus
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How Facebook's Chief Geek Will Meld Reality with the Oculus

Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer turned 40 last month. He (just barely) blew out a row of 40 candles during a mini-celebration at company headquarters...

Technology Turns Gestures Into Smartphone Security Component
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Technology Turns Gestures Into Smartphone Security Component

Technology turns user's gestures into a smartphone's strongest security component.

Why Organism Engineering Could Be a Foodie's Dream Come True
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Why Organism Engineering Could Be a Foodie's Dream Come True

Thanks to recent advances in synthetic biology—a hybrid discipline of engineering and biology that makes possible the manipulation of DNA of microorganisms such...

Stanford's Most Popular Class Isn't Computer Science—it's Something Much More Important
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Stanford's Most Popular Class Isn't Computer Science—it's Something Much More Important

Before Kanyi Maqubela became an investment partner at the Collaborative Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on social enterprises, he was a typical ...

Building Community for EECS Postdocs
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Building Community for EECS Postdocs

Postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science gain perspective and a sense of community in a group that encourage open discussion about issues ...
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