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New York City Shuts Down Unauthorized Sensors
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New York City Shuts Down Unauthorized Sensors

With little fanfare, urban areas have become overgrown by a tangle of sensors: cameras unobtrusively snapping pictures at traffic lights, microphones secretly triangulating...

Mobile Revolution Shakes ­p Silicon Valley
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Mobile Revolution Shakes ­p Silicon Valley

Smartphones, tablets and other gadgets aren't just changing the way we live and work. They are shaking up Silicon Valley's balance of power and splitting up businesses...

How to Tweet Like a Robot on Mars
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How to Tweet Like a Robot on Mars

When a worried 5-year-old named Timur asked Chris Hadfield in September whether the Voyager 1 satellite—now careening through Deep Space 11 billion miles from Earth...

How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is
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How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is

The story of how the digital age came to be involves a cast of more than 40 people, ranging from a 19th century English countess to California hippies.

Neuroscience: Brains of Norway
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Neuroscience: Brains of Norway

The fact that Edvard and May-Britt Moser have collaborated for 30 years—and been married for 28—has done nothing to dull their passion for the brain.

School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent
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School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent

As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.

Cyber Spy High: Meet the Nsa's Hacker Recruiter
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Cyber Spy High: Meet the Nsa's Hacker Recruiter

The National Security Agency has a recruiting problem.

New Frontier in Error-Correcting Codes
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New Frontier in Error-Correcting Codes

A coding scheme for interactive communication developed at MIT is the first to meet three classical measures of evaluation, its developers say.

Recruiting Tech Talent in High School
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Recruiting Tech Talent in High School

Desperate to attract tech-savvy workers, one company is turning to an unlikely talent source: high school.

Laying the Groundwork for Data-Driven Science
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Laying the Groundwork for Data-Driven Science

The ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data is rapidly transforming science, industry and everyday life, but what we have seen so far is likely just...

Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac
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Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac

Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...

The Google Formula For Success
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The Google Formula For Success

Can Google’s winning ways be applied to all kinds of businesses?

Can You Out-Race a Computer?
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Can You Out-Race a Computer?

A deep-learning algorithm can size up a neighborhood better than humans.

Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear
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Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear

On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and...

New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind
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New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind

Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...

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.

Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation
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Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation

Change is coming to the institute that has been at the heart of China's scientific development since the communist state began.

Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality

Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...

RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects
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RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects

Researchers have developed a search algorithm that improves a robot's ability to find and navigate to UHF RFID-tagged objects located throughout a home.

A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm
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A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm

Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.
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