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How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley
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How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley

When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...

Google Ventures Beefs Up Fund Size to $300 Million a Year
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Google Ventures Beefs Up Fund Size to $300 Million a Year

Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon...

STEM Pathways
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STEM Pathways

Many universities are reaching out to community colleges to set up programs that encourage science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
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Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race

Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...

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Can Apple Still Innovate on a Shoestring?

In 1998, Steve Jobs told Fortune: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have." He shut down Apple's long-term research lab division to prove...

Ornl Debuts Titan Supercomputer
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Ornl Debuts Titan Supercomputer

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory last month launched the Titan supercomputer, which will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last...

The Secret to Creating Cell Phones For Seniors
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The Secret to Creating Cell Phones For Seniors

Allen Calvin earned a doctorate in experimental psychology, was a consulting professor at Stanford University, and is currently the president of Palo Alto University...

It Employment Will Finish Year in the Black
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It Employment Will Finish Year in the Black

Despite some concerns earlier this year, it's safe to say that IT employment will finish 2012 well in the black.

Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving
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Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving

While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...

Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac

Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...

Material Challenges Face Designers of Future Computer Chips
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Material Challenges Face Designers of Future Computer Chips

To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom...

Study Reveals Declining Influence of High Impact Factor Journals
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Study Reveals Declining Influence of High Impact Factor Journals

The most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world have less and less influence amongst scientists, according to a paper co-authored by Vincent Larivière,...

What's Gone Wrong With Hp?
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What's Gone Wrong With Hp?

In 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s then-chief executive Mark Hurd boasted the company was "the largest IT company in the world" and said "we are still not to our full...

A Reboot in Recruiting Women Into Computer Science
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A Reboot in Recruiting Women Into Computer Science

U.S. government agencies, universities, and technology companies have contributed tens of millions of dollars to increase the number of female computer scientists...

5 Most Surprising Things Heard at Harvard's Cyberposium
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5 Most Surprising Things Heard at Harvard's Cyberposium

There was the usual talk about the excitement of the startup universe and the thrill of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School's 18th annual Cyberposium on...

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With Computerized Cars Ahead, Gm Puts It Outsourcing in the Rearview Mirror

For a dramatic sign of the strategy reversal under way at General Motors as it moves on from its 2009 bankruptcy, look no further than the IT department.

Women 'under-Represented' in Emerging Nations' S&t
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Women 'under-Represented' in Emerging Nations' S&t

Countries leading in technological advancement have failed to open up their knowledge societies to women, according to a recent report from Women in Global Science...

Beam Me to My Meeting!
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Beam Me to My Meeting!

European scientists have integrated robotics, video, and various sensor and display technologies to transport someone into a geographically distant meeting room...

Computer Scientist Turned Artist
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Computer Scientist Turned Artist

MIT professor Erik Demaine is a computer scientist turned artist with expertise in computational origami, the mathematical study of bending and folding. Together...

I Meet Tumblr Whizz-Kid David Karp
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I Meet Tumblr Whizz-Kid David Karp

There's a joke running around about social media: Facebook is how you want people to see you, Twitter is how you see yourself; Tumblr is—"Hey look! Funny cat picture...
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