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License Will Lead to Faster-Charging Batteries for Phones, Electric Vehicles
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License Will Lead to Faster-Charging Batteries for Phones, Electric Vehicles

An enhanced battery technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been licensed to Vorbeck Materials. The technology could reduce the time it...

Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy
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Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy

MIT's third annual Diversity Summit, held last week at Kresge Auditorium, reflected the growing importance of inclusion at the Institute: From 70 attendees at the...

Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System

The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion
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Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion

Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of most of the world's top-selling electronic gadgets including Apple Inc's iPhone, is trying to raise participation in...

20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads of Money
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20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads of Money

If you intern for a high-profile tech company, you can make more money than the average U.S. citizen.

Meet the Programming Language That Uses Arabic Script
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Meet the Programming Language That Uses Arabic Script

A computer scientist has written the first programming language based on Arabic script. Named "heart" in Arabic, the language is "the first programming language...

Microsoft to Big Data Programmers: Try F#
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Microsoft to Big Data Programmers: Try F#

Microsoft researcher Don Syme notes that one primary difference between F# and other programming languages is that F# is a functional-first language and, in many...

Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market
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Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market

The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the first of a breed of ultratall buildings that will exceed 3,000 feet in height. That's more than twice as tall...

Google Science Fair Seeks Out Next-Gen Scientists, Engineers
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Google Science Fair Seeks Out Next-Gen Scientists, Engineers

Google has kicked off registration for its third annual Google Science Fair.

Senate’s H-1B Visa Proposal Goes Far Beyond Microsoft’s
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Senate’s H-1B Visa Proposal Goes Far Beyond Microsoft’s

The Immigration Innovation Act, recently introduced in the U.S. Senate, would increase the annual quota of H-1B visas for those workers from 65,000 to 115,000....

Winners of 10th Annual International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge Announced
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Winners of 10th Annual International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge Announced

The National Science Foundation, along with the journal Science, today announces the 53 winners and honorable mentions of the International Science & Technology...

Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?
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Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?

How much has mapping software changed your life?

Chipmaker Intel Faces Long March to Mobile Salvation
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Chipmaker Intel Faces Long March to Mobile Salvation

Intel Corp, the world's biggest chipmaker, opened a new front on Thursday in a long and stuttering campaign to get its processors into mobile phones, although it...

Why I Cheer When My Employees Leave
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Why I Cheer When My Employees Leave

Some companies are at their most vindictive when their employees are at their most ambitious. And when I say ambitious I mean the worker is considering leaving...

Berners-Lee Calls For Computer Science Education at a Younger Age
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Berners-Lee Calls For Computer Science Education at a Younger Age

Computer science should be taught to children at a younger age, said World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee at the recent World Economic Forum. Schools currently...

Online Social Networking at Work Can Improve Morale and Reduce Employee Turnover
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Online Social Networking at Work Can Improve Morale and Reduce Employee Turnover

By allowing employees to participate in a work-sponsored internal social networking site, a company can improve morale and reduce turnover, according to a Baylor...

The Natural Experimenter
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The Natural Experimenter

Josh Angrist is an acclaimed experimentalist who does not work in a lab.

Google to Give Schools Raspberry Pi Microcomputers
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Google to Give Schools Raspberry Pi Microcomputers

Schools around the U.K. are to be given 15,000 free microcomputers, with a view to creating a new generation of computer scientists.

Cornell Engineers Solve a Biological Mystery and Boost Artificial Intelligence
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Cornell Engineers Solve a Biological Mystery and Boost Artificial Intelligence

 By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as...

The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins
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The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins

The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple's Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite.
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