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New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash
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New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash

The Pentagon sparked an uproar among troops and veterans when it revealed that a new high-level medal honoring drone pilots will rank above some traditional combat...

Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address Touts His Efforts on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Schooling
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Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address Touts His Efforts on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Schooling

Glittering, high-tech schools of the future are fast becoming reality thanks to massive investments in education, Mayor Bloomberg said Thursday.

In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On
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In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On

Japan is renowned for its robots and bullet trains, and has some of the world's fastest broadband networks. But it also remains firmly wedded to a pre-Internet...

New Medal Honors Tech, Cyber Experts
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New Medal Honors Tech, Cyber Experts

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta has approved a new medal designed to recognize service members such as technologists and cyber personnel who directly...

Amid the Patent Wars, a Powerful Pact of Non-Aggression
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Amid the Patent Wars, a Powerful Pact of Non-Aggression

The Open Invention Network, a community set up by an IBM-led consortium in 2005 to foster a safe patent environment for developers and users of the free, open-source...

Iowa State's Mirage Lab Mixes Real and Virtual Worlds
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Iowa State's Mirage Lab Mixes Real and Virtual Worlds

Iowa State University researchers have mixed the real and virtual worlds to create Mirage, a unique research lab that uses props, technology, and stagecraft to...

Where DARPA Is Going, You Don't Need Passwords
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Where DARPA Is Going, You Don't Need Passwords

DARPA's Active Authentication program is investigating using behavioral biometrics for online identity checks to address the frailty of password-based validation...

Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home
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Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home

In the elusive dream of the automated home, visitors ring a doorbell, and it buzzes the homeowner's mobile phone. Lawn sprinklers take rainy days off. At bedtime...

Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause
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Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause

What do computer programmers and illegal immigrants have to do with each other?

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Cyber Command to Hire Thousands of Troops, Civilians

The Pentagon plans a massive expansion of the joint U.S. Cyber Command, potentially creating a rare pocket of job growth for troops in a force otherwise constrained...

Pentagon Creates New Medal For Cyber, Drone Wars
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Pentagon Creates New Medal For Cyber, Drone Wars

They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.

'slow Light' Could Speed Optical Computing, Telecommunications
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'slow Light' Could Speed Optical Computing, Telecommunications

LANL researchers and collaborators have made the first demonstration of rapidly switching on and off "slow light" in specially designed materials at room temperature...

Software Developers Expected to See the Highest It Job Growth Come 2020
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Software Developers Expected to See the Highest It Job Growth Come 2020

There are currently about 4.16 million information technology professionals working in the United States, and that number is expected to grow by 22 percent through...

Engineers Show Feasibility of Superfast Materials for Computing
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Engineers Show Feasibility of Superfast Materials for Computing

University of Utah engineers demonstrated the feasibility of building organic topological insulators which could shuttle information at the speed of light in quantum...

Letter 'to a Future Woman in Tech' Hopes For Long Ladies' Room Lines at Conferences
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Letter 'to a Future Woman in Tech' Hopes For Long Ladies' Room Lines at Conferences

Stacey Mulcahy, who is currently a lead developer at the digital creative agency Big Spaceship, has been in the tech industry since 2001.

Cobol Will Outlive ­S All
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Cobol Will Outlive ­S All

In the early 1980s, I was told that COBOL was going away and that I should quickly move toward other programming languages.

A Cooler Way to Protect Silicon Surfaces
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A Cooler Way to Protect Silicon Surfaces

A new room-temperature passivation process could lead to less expensive solar cells, computer chips, and other electronic devices.  

3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products
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3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products

While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...

Sandia Labs Researcher Looks For Bad Guys in Cyberspace
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Sandia Labs Researcher Looks For Bad Guys in Cyberspace

Sandia National Laboratories computer science researcher Jeremy Wendt wants to figure out how to reduce the number of visitors that cyberanalysts have to check...

The Browser Wars Go Mobile
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The Browser Wars Go Mobile

When surfing the Web on a smartphone, most of us stick with the browser that came with our handset.
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