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Drone's Latest Target: Peru's Tropical Ecosystem
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Drone's Latest Target: Peru's Tropical Ecosystem

A flying, insect-like robot will give an unprecedented look at Peru's tropical cloud forest, one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems.

Study Shines Light on What Makes Digital Activism Effective
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Study Shines Light on What Makes Digital Activism Effective

Digital activism is usually non-violent and tends to work best when social media tools are combined with street-level organization, according to new research from...

Computer Scientists Create 3-D Technique
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Computer Scientists Create 3-D Technique

UT Dallas computer scientists are using a famous mathematician's theory to make 3-D images that are more accurate approximations of the shapes of the original objects...

Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
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Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing

Unexpected behavior in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new approach...

Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey

Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...

Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed

"Qubits" of information encoded in a silicon system persisted for almost 100 times longer than ever before.

Shocker: Women Outnumber Men in This Year's Tech Hires
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Shocker: Women Outnumber Men in This Year's Tech Hires

Women represented a majority of workers filling new technology jobs created through September of this year, for the first time in at least 10 years, according to...

'something Very Big Is Coming,' Hints Stephen Wolfram
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'something Very Big Is Coming,' Hints Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram|Alpha creator Stephen Wolfram said on Wednesday (November 13) that he and his team have developed a general-purpose knowledge-based language called the...

The Internet of Things Needs a Lot of Work
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The Internet of Things Needs a Lot of Work

Mobile connected devices present too many challenges for users, said industry leaders during a panel at the recent Open Mobile Summit.

Blinded By the Light
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Blinded By the Light

The probe sails through space, traveling the distance of the LA-to-Chicago red-eye in a minute.

Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley
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Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley

In case you haven't noticed, Silicon Valley has been pulling up some of its roots and moving north.

It's Official: Computer Scientists Pick Stronger Passwords
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It's Official: Computer Scientists Pick Stronger Passwords

Carnegie Mellon University researchers examined the passwords that 25,000 faculty, staff, and students used to access grades, financial transcripts, and other sensitive...

Israel's Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps
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Israel's Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps

In Israel, like most of the world, the universe of computer whizzes and technology entrepreneurs is overwhelmingly male.

Microsoft's New Cybercrime Center Combines Tactics Against Hacking Groups
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Microsoft's New Cybercrime Center Combines Tactics Against Hacking Groups

The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers...

Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It
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Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It

The internet backbone—the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels—went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active...

Intelligence Agency Seeks Facial Recognition ­pgrade
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Intelligence Agency Seeks Facial Recognition ­pgrade

The U.S. intelligence community is pushing a leap forward in facial recognition software that will enable it to determine better the identity of people through...

Indiana University Offering Online Certificate in Data Science
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Indiana University Offering Online Certificate in Data Science

The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing has announced a new online program in data science.

Machine Learning Branches Out
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Machine Learning Branches Out

An algorithm that extends an artificial-intelligence technique to new tasks could aid in analysis of flight delays and social networks.

Big Data's Little Brother
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Big Data's Little Brother

David Soloff is recruiting an army of "hyperdata" collectors.

The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse
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The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse

Google X is responsible for some of Google's most literally fantastic projects: Google Glass, self-driving cars, gigantic inflatable balloons that beam Internet...
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