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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds

The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.

The Future of ­.s. Innovation Might Rest on This Obscure Patent Lawsuit
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The Future of ­.s. Innovation Might Rest on This Obscure Patent Lawsuit

Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush....

These Are 3 Breakthrough Science Ideas You'll Be Talking About in 2015
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These Are 3 Breakthrough Science Ideas You'll Be Talking About in 2015

For anyone who has ever said that all the STEM professions need is something to make them "cool" in order to attract more young people, look no further than ...

Where Is the Next Alibaba? A Look at Six Contenders.
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Where Is the Next Alibaba? A Look at Six Contenders.

Chinese companies are starting to spread their wings and head abroad.

When Cybersecurity Threats Come from the Inside
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When Cybersecurity Threats Come from the Inside

AT&T acknowledged earlier this week that in August an employee had gained unauthorized access to some customers' personal data—including Social Security and driver's...

The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun
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The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun

Like many guys from age 13–65, I suffer from LTAMFFT Syndrome.

So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?

A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...

Policymakers Hail STEM Education as a Strong Foundation, Pushing Innovation
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Policymakers Hail STEM Education as a Strong Foundation, Pushing Innovation

U.S. government officials and advocates for greater investment in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education are tweaking their message, advocating...

For Sale: Systems that Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone ­sers Go Around the Globe
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For Sale: Systems that Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone ­sers Go Around the Globe

Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they...

What Is a 'zero Day' Vulnerability?
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What Is a 'zero Day' Vulnerability?

Tech giant Google announced a new team of security researchers aimed at making the web a safer place by discovering "zero day" vulnerabilities Tuesday.

Most With College STEM Degrees Go to Work in Other Fields, Survey Finds
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Most With College STEM Degrees Go to Work in Other Fields, Survey Finds

Students who graduate with a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are more likely than other graduates to be employed, but also...

Inside the Democratic Party's Hogwarts For Digital Wizardry
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Inside the Democratic Party's Hogwarts For Digital Wizardry


An Argument That the Shortage of Cyber Workers Is a Problem That Will Solve Itself
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An Argument That the Shortage of Cyber Workers Is a Problem That Will Solve Itself

Talk to any talent professional in the Washington region and they'll tell you cybersecurity jobs are among the most difficult for them to fill.

Forget Touchscreens, 3D Holographic Displays Are Coming
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Forget Touchscreens, 3D Holographic Displays Are Coming

As it stands, the touchscreen experience is confined to a flat, two-dimensional world.

11 Amazing Images from High-Powered Microscopes
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11 Amazing Images from High-Powered Microscopes

Thanks to high-powered microscopes we’re able to see life in incredible detail.

China's Cyber-Generals Are Reinventing the Art of War
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China's Cyber-Generals Are Reinventing the Art of War

The conventional wisdom is that the future of war will involve private robot armies, predator drones carrying out precision strikes, and maybe even the militarization...

A Summer Reading List For Innovators
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A Summer Reading List For Innovators

For this summer's reading list, we bring you seven very different types of books that have been published since the start of the year, each of them exploring the...

Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts
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Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts

Chad Bouton snapped awake at 5 a.m.

Meet 18F, the GSA's Bid to Change Federal IT
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Meet 18F, the GSA's Bid to Change Federal IT

In a large, white room that looks more like an Apple store than an office, a group of developers and entrepreneurs meet every day in downtown Washington to work...

In New Case, Supreme Court Revisits the Question of Software Patents
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In New Case, Supreme Court Revisits the Question of Software Patents

If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it.
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