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E-Zpasses Get Read All Over New York (not Just at Toll Booths)
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E-Zpasses Get Read All Over New York (not Just at Toll Booths)

After spotting a police car with two huge boxes on its trunk—that turned out to be license-plate-reading cameras—a man in New Jersey became obsessed with the loss...

As Demand For Big Data Analysts Grows, Schools Rush to Graduate Students with Necessary Skills
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As Demand For Big Data Analysts Grows, Schools Rush to Graduate Students with Necessary Skills

Two or three of the students recently completed undergraduate degrees in finance or economics. Others hail from backgrounds in information technology or marketing...

Graphene Could Yield Cheaper Optical Chips
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Graphene Could Yield Cheaper Optical Chips

Researchers show that graphene — atom-thick sheets of carbon — could be used in photodetectors, devices that translate optical signals to electrical.

Grand Theft Auto V Lives ­p to Hype, Steals Its Car, Sets House on Fire
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Grand Theft Auto V Lives ­p to Hype, Steals Its Car, Sets House on Fire

I'm trying to put into words how difficult a situation it is attempting to summarize my thoughts on a game that I've only been playing for two weeks when I know...

The Boy Genius of ­lan Bator
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The Boy Genius of ­lan Bator

Days before I was to meet Battushig Myanganbayar at his home in Mongolia, he sent me an e-mail with a modest request: Would I bring him a pair of tiny XBee wireless...

The '50-50' Chip: Memory Device of the Future?
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The '50-50' Chip: Memory Device of the Future?

A new electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building next-generation "phase-change" memory devices...

Tiny Recon Robots Herald New Generation of Drones
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Tiny Recon Robots Herald New Generation of Drones

Ex-U.S. Marine Ernest Langdon pulls a pin and throws a small black object onto the ground. But it doesn't explode.

In Silicon Valley Start-Up World, Pedigree Counts
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In Silicon Valley Start-Up World, Pedigree Counts

When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe,...

The Message Voyager 1 Carries For Alien Civilizations
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The Message Voyager 1 Carries For Alien Civilizations

The year was 1977.

Grand Theft Auto 5: Inside the Creative Process with Dan Houser
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Grand Theft Auto 5: Inside the Creative Process with Dan Houser

We're four days away now. After a year of pre-publicity and a five-year wait since GTA IV, the latest instalment in Rockstar's gangland opus is almost upon us.

Managing Multicore Memory
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Managing Multicore Memory

MIT research shows that it may be time to let software, rather than hardware, manage the high-speed on-chip cache memory banks.

Crowdgrader Brings Crowdsourcing to the Task of Grading Homework
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Crowdgrader Brings Crowdsourcing to the Task of Grading Homework

CrowdGrader, a new crowdsourcing tool developed by UC Santa Cruz computer scientists, allows students to submit their homework online and then distributes it anonymously...

Mars Rover Camera Invention Could Help Nasa Robots Explore Solo
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Mars Rover Camera Invention Could Help Nasa Robots Explore Solo

Every second that a NASA rover roams across the surface of Mars is extremely expensive.

Intel's Extensive Makeover
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Intel's Extensive Makeover

While Apple talked about a couple of new products on Tuesday, Intel, with much less fanfare, talked about the transformation of a world, and itself.

A Material's Multiple Personalities
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A Material's Multiple Personalities

Materials, like people, sometimes exhibit "multiple personalities." This unusual behavior has compelled researchers at Argonne National Laboratory to take a closer...

Google and Edx Create a Mooc Site For the Rest of US
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Google and Edx Create a Mooc Site For the Rest of US

Google and edX, a nonprofit joint venture founded by Harvard and MIT, are collaborating to create MOOC.org, a spinoff website in which users can sign up for a massive...

STEM Education Policy Fellowship Announced
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STEM Education Policy Fellowship Announced

The American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, will send science advisors to Washington...

The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at ­niversities. Here's What Students Learn.
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The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at ­niversities. Here's What Students Learn.

Last week, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh became one of the latest—and most prestigious—schools to partner with the National Security Agency on a program...

Nsa Announces Four New Schools For Cyber Initiative
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Nsa Announces Four New Schools For Cyber Initiative

Four new schools have been selected for the National Security Agency's National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, which was designed to...

Apple's New Iphone 'touch Id' Makes Fingerprint Scans Easy, But Don't Ditch Passcodes Yet
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Apple's New Iphone 'touch Id' Makes Fingerprint Scans Easy, But Don't Ditch Passcodes Yet

The latest iPhone has arrived, and along with it what may be the slickest integration of biometric security yet: A fingerprint scanner built seamlessly into the...
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