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The $11m Tool That Could Help Computers Write Their Own Code
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The $11m Tool That Could Help Computers Write Their Own Code

Nowadays, if you start typing something into Google, it tries to guess what you’re looking for.

Wrinkles in Spacetime: The Warped Astrophysics of Interstellar
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Wrinkles in Spacetime: The Warped Astrophysics of Interstellar

Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, "Why, of course. That's what it would do."

Facebook, Google, and the Rise of Open Source Security Software
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Facebook, Google, and the Rise of Open Source Security Software

Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan says that people like Mike Arpaia are hard to find.

This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever
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This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever

As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia...

This Incredible Oculus Sim Lets Soccer Players Relive Games
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This Incredible Oculus Sim Lets Soccer Players Relive Games

For many athletes, watching game film is a necessary chore.

Hackers Gather For Cyberwar in an Intense 48-Hour Sim
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Hackers Gather For Cyberwar in an Intense 48-Hour Sim

Locked Shields is among the world's preeminent cyber attack simulations.

Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation
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Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation

First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.

When Robots Come For Our Jobs, Will We Be Ready to Outsmart Them?
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When Robots Come For Our Jobs, Will We Be Ready to Outsmart Them?

Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human...

Tech Giants Begin Recruiting For the Next Big Platform Wars
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Tech Giants Begin Recruiting For the Next Big Platform Wars

The Internet of Things is still young, but it's real.

The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future

The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.

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.

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 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.

Everything Is Becoming a Branch of Computer Science
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Everything Is Becoming a Branch of Computer Science

Computer science is widening its public appeal as people increasingly realize how it impacts nearly every other field of academic endeavor.

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...

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.

Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code
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Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code

J. Paul Gibson began to teach programming classes for teens out of frustration.

Google Couldn't Kill 20 Percent Time Even If It Wanted To
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Google Couldn't Kill 20 Percent Time Even If It Wanted To

Google’s "20 percent time" is dead—or so we worried.

The Best Way to Teach Kids Math and Science? Zombies
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The Best Way to Teach Kids Math and Science? Zombies

Texas Instruments, the company that made the graphing calculator the most ubiquitous learning tool since the book, is giving teachers everywhere an invaluable...
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