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The World's Richest Ex-Hackers
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The World's Richest Ex-Hackers

Long before he was the two-hundred-and-second richest person on the planet, Jan Koum was just another curious kid with a wardialer.

Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
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Silicon Valley's Youth Problem

The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google's.

How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers
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How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers

How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.

The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
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The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started

Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...

Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information

The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...

5 Things That Will Remake Big Data in the Next 5 Years
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5 Things That Will Remake Big Data in the Next 5 Years

Big data has evolved a lot of the past few years; from a happy buzzword to a hated buzzword, and from a focus on volume to a focus on variety and velocity.

NIST Seeks to Bring Rigor to Data Science
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NIST Seeks to Bring Rigor to Data Science

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to develop a framework that can be used by all industries to understand how to use and measure...

Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, ­p 22%
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Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, ­p 22%

Enrollment for computer science bachelor's degree programs in the U.S. jumped 22 percent last year, according to the Computing Research Association's 2013 Taulbee...

Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It

I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...

Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space
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Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space

Tim Webber is a visual effects supervisor who has worked on an array of critically acclaimed blockbusters.

Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind

While you are in space, could you keep a diary?

How Twitter Shapes Public Opinion
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How Twitter Shapes Public Opinion

Dominant viewpoints emerge quickly on Twitter and, once stabilized, become difficult to change, according to new study.  

Scientists Build Thinner, Stronger, More Energy Efficient Leds
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Scientists Build Thinner, Stronger, More Energy Efficient Leds

University of Washington scientists have built the thinnest-known LED that can be used as a source of light energy in electronics.  

Computer Science: The Learning Machines
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines

Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...

From ACM Opinion

Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029

In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...

Texas School Offers First-of-a-Kind Data Center Engineering Degree
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Texas School Offers First-of-a-Kind Data Center Engineering Degree

Southern Methodist University says it will offer a first-of-its-kind graduate degree in data center engineering, with classes starting this fall.

Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
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Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within

After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...

The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent
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The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent

Bram Cohen sits at a round desk, surrounded by a pod of open cubicles.

One-Hit Wonders
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One-Hit Wonders

For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...
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