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Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget
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Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget

A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.

This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made
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This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made

The number of web pages on the internet is somewhere north of two billion, perhaps as many as double that.

Futurist Says We'll ­se Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon
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Futurist Says We'll ­se Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon

The idea of erasing and implanting memories is a common feature of science fiction films such as Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain ­sing Amazon's Cloud
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Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain ­sing Amazon's Cloud

Nothing beats a movie recommendation from a friend who knows your tastes.

Why Startups Should Steal Ideas and Hire Weirdos
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Why Startups Should Steal Ideas and Hire Weirdos

The most consistently creative and insightful people are explorers.

A Holodeck Videogame Designed to Train Soldiers
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A Holodeck Videogame Designed to Train Soldiers

If the Army is going to keep up with military readiness pressures while also seeing a reduction in troop size and stagnant budgets, then it’s going to need more...

Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality
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Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality

Geoffrey Hinton was in high school when a friend convinced him that the brain worked like a hologram.

Meet Alphalem, an Open Source Brain Just for Robots
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Meet Alphalem, an Open Source Brain Just for Robots

For years, robotics was the domain of massively rich corporations.

Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
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Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course

In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential...

Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World
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Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World

Whenever an app, a website, or a physical product like a gaming console is exported, it ships with a side of cultural influence.

Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
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Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem

At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.

The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
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The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead

Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. 

Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It
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Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It

The internet backbone—the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels—went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active...

Should Tech Designers Go With Their Guts—or the Data?
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Should Tech Designers Go With Their Guts—or the Data?

For many tech companies, design is no longer subjective.

The American Who Designed the Playstation 4 and Remade Sony
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The American Who Designed the Playstation 4 and Remade Sony

Shuhei Yoshida still remembers the call that convinced him Sony needed to change.

Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data
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Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data

When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological...

Will the Next Nate Silver Please Stand ­p?
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Will the Next Nate Silver Please Stand ­p?

Ever since Nate Silver made a splash with his freakishly accurate election predictions, all sorts of companies have been looking for their own rock-star data scientists...

Best Microscope Photos of the Year Bring Tiny, Amazing Worlds to Light
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Best Microscope Photos of the Year Bring Tiny, Amazing Worlds to Light


Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years

Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...

You'll Never Believe Where Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Work
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You'll Never Believe Where Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Work

The guys at Glassdoor have compiled a list of the 25 tech companies with the best salaries for software engineers.
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