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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers

As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...

IT Jobs on the Rise
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IT Jobs on the Rise

As growth returns to the world economy, outsourcing returned to favor in 2011 and will continue to post gains in 2012 as well, according to a report by Morrison...

Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models
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Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models

There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.

Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire
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Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire

It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.

App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students
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App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students

An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts an Android tablet computer into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.

Gordon Supercomputer: Ready for Researchers
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Gordon Supercomputer: Ready for Researchers

The Gordon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center has begun helping national academic researchers as well as industry and government agencies perform...

Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers

Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA.

Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market
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Berkeley Skydeck Provides Perch For Startups to Jump Into Market

Perched atop Berkeley's tallest building, the Berkeley Skydeck is a UC Berkeley campus-community partnership that could change the way emerging companies scale...

New Controller Tugs at Thumb Tips to Enhance Video Gaming
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New Controller Tugs at Thumb Tips to Enhance Video Gaming

University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips...

Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says

In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...

How To Kill Patent Trolls
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How To Kill Patent Trolls

Firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents—are the scourge of innovators everywhere...

Computer Software Responds to Students' Frustration and Boredom
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Computer Software Responds to Students' Frustration and Boredom

Computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states — including frustration and boredom — has been developed by researchers from...

The Management Team
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The Management Team

Joel Spolsky weighs in on how entrepreneurs manage their companies. Few have management experience, and sometimes adopt a "command and control" approach. However...

In Space and on Earth, Why Build It, When a Robot Can Build It For You?
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In Space and on Earth, Why Build It, When a Robot Can Build It For You?

Like something out of "Star Wars," armies of robots could nimbly crawl up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don’t have...

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Video: Touring the Futuristic R&d Lab Behind Apple's Siri

SRI in Menlo Park, California, has spawned everything from the computer mouse to ultrasound technology to the Siri "personal assistant" platform in the new iPhones...

Ornl Completes First Phase of Titan Supercomputer Transition
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Ornl Completes First Phase of Titan Supercomputer Transition

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing...

Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language
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Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language

Google's easy. It helps you find stuff. Facebook—duh—lets you connect with friends. Even Intel's a no-brainer—they make those little pieces of whatever inside your...

Windows Without Windows
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Windows Without Windows

Microsoft's new version of Windows is fantastic, jarring, and risky at the same time. Fantastic because it marks the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is embracing...

Virtual Laboratories to Reach 500,000 Students
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Virtual Laboratories to Reach 500,000 Students

Aiming to provide state-of-art laboratory facilities to all science and engineering institutions, India has introduced its first virtual science and engineering...

Engineering the Next Generation of STEM
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Engineering the Next Generation of STEM

Industry participants, reacting to the so-called engineering crisis, are doing what they can to foster science, technology, engineering, and math talent and encourage...
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