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Why Google Doesn't Have a Research Lab

Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...

The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot

Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.

­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
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­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost

The uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far...

Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand

Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.

All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest

When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.

Genome Sequencing Stumbles Towards the Clinic
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Genome Sequencing Stumbles Towards the Clinic

Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.

The World's Richest Ex-Hackers
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The World's Richest Ex-Hackers

Long before he was the two-hundred-and-second richest person on the planet, Jan Koum was just another curious kid with a wardialer.

Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
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Silicon Valley's Youth Problem

The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google's.

How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers
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How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers

How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.

The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
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The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started

Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...

Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information

The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...

5 Things That Will Remake Big Data in the Next 5 Years
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5 Things That Will Remake Big Data in the Next 5 Years

Big data has evolved a lot of the past few years; from a happy buzzword to a hated buzzword, and from a focus on volume to a focus on variety and velocity.

Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It

I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...

Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space
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Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space

Tim Webber is a visual effects supervisor who has worked on an array of critically acclaimed blockbusters.

Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind

While you are in space, could you keep a diary?

Scientists Build Thinner, Stronger, More Energy Efficient Leds
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Scientists Build Thinner, Stronger, More Energy Efficient Leds

University of Washington scientists have built the thinnest-known LED that can be used as a source of light energy in electronics.  

Computer Science: The Learning Machines
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines

Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...

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Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029

In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...

The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent
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The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent

Bram Cohen sits at a round desk, surrounded by a pod of open cubicles.
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