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Argonne Ranks as a Top Workplace For Postdocs
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Argonne Ranks as a Top Workplace For Postdocs

For the third year in a row, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is one of the 10 best places to work as a postdoctoral researcher, according...

Computer Model Solves Sandia's Steel Problem
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Computer Model Solves Sandia's Steel Problem

Sandia National Laboratories researchers Lisa Deibler and Arthur Brown had a ready-made problem for their computer modeling work when they were looking to improve...

The $12 Gongkai Phone
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The $12 Gongkai Phone

How cheap can you make a phone?

Expenses Mount For App Launches
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Expenses Mount For App Launches

Mobile-game maker ZeptoLab UK on Thursday released "Cut the Rope: Time Travel," its first major title in the popular "Cut the Rope" series since 2011.

Hot It Titles: Hybrids in High Demand
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Hot It Titles: Hybrids in High Demand

Many hot new IT job titles are based around areas such as Big Data and business intelligence that combine technology with business strategy. Hybrid IT job titles...

Struggling Cities, From Detroit to New Orleans, See Startups as Saviors
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Struggling Cities, From Detroit to New Orleans, See Startups as Saviors

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Greg Schwartz worked in New York at Warner Music Group as director of digital business.

Programming Invitational Provides Tune-­p For Icpc World Finals
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Programming Invitational Provides Tune-­p For Icpc World Finals

Twenty-three teams from across North America, all qualifiers for the Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals...

How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements
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How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements

Wireless operators have access to an unprecedented volume of information about users' real-world activities, but for years these massive data troves were put to...

Geer, Thieme: Specialization and Institutionalization Have Transformed Security
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Geer, Thieme: Specialization and Institutionalization Have Transformed Security

Two elders of information security came to Source Boston 2013 Wednesday morning to encourage the next generation to grab the torch from them and to urge great caution...

Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?
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Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?

Which is more intrusive: security screening and metal detectors every few blocks, or a drone flying high above it taking video of every little thing you do?

India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips
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India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips

The government of India, home to many of the world’s leading software outsourcing companies, wants to replicate that success by creating a homegrown industry for...

5 New Things to Know About Google Glass
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5 New Things to Know About Google Glass

Google is pulling back the curtain a bit more on Google Glass, the high-tech spectacles with an eye-mounted display for accessing the Internet.

Silicon Valley Offers More Perks Than Ever to Recruit, Retain Talent
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Silicon Valley Offers More Perks Than Ever to Recruit, Retain Talent

In a competition for workers, tech companies across Silicon Valley are building new headquarters and offering an escalating level of perks in order to attract and...

'Survival of the Fittest' Now Applies to Computers
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'Survival of the Fittest' Now Applies to Computers

Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" originally referred to natural selection in biological systems, but new research from Brookhaven National Laboratory...

Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities
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Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities

The U.S. military has been attempting to build up the offensive cybersecurity capabilities in its various services for several years now, but is running into the...

How New Military Technologies Can Help Prevent the Next Boston or Newtown
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How New Military Technologies Can Help Prevent the Next Boston or Newtown

This week, it's bombs. In December, it was guns.

Consortium Aims to Harness Big Data as U.s. Economic Engine
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Consortium Aims to Harness Big Data as U.s. Economic Engine

A new collaboration called the National Consortium for Data Science aims to create a national hub for data-intensive business and data science research and education...

Intel Tries to Secure Its Footing Beyond Pcs
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Intel Tries to Secure Its Footing Beyond Pcs

For the last several months, Andy Bryant, the chairman of Intel, has been trying to put steel in the backs of the company's employees.

How Pixar ­sed Moore's Law to Predict the Future
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How Pixar ­sed Moore's Law to Predict the Future

Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore's Law has been going strong.

Researchers Create Novel Optical Fibers
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Researchers Create Novel Optical Fibers

Researchers at UW-Milwaukee have found a novel way to propagate multiple beams of light in a single strand of optical fiber. The discovery could increase the...
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