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Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers
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Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers

Google Inc. sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that...

NASA's 'Crazy' Robot Lab
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NASA's 'Crazy' Robot Lab

It's three in the afternoon, and in their NASA lab in Silicon Valley, California, two engineers are playing with a toy designed for toddlers.

Capcom Says Better Smartphones Raise Game-Development Costs
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Capcom Says Better Smartphones Raise Game-Development Costs

Capcom Co., the creator of the "Resident Evil" and "Street Fighter" video games, said improvements in smartphones are making it more expensive to develop games.

Which iPhone App May Get You Into Stanford? The One You Make
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Which iPhone App May Get You Into Stanford? The One You Make

Standing out from the crowd of applicants vying to get into Stanford University's Computer Science undergraduate program is no easy task.

Apps World's Hackfest Seeks the Gold Mine in Tv
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Apps World's Hackfest Seeks the Gold Mine in Tv

What the heck are these guys doing to our televisions?

Meet the Detective Who Handcuffed Intel's Packet of Death
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Meet the Detective Who Handcuffed Intel's Packet of Death

When Kristian Kielhofner first heard that his company's new servers were crashing last summer, he worried that he might be facing a product recall.

Social Media Firms Move to Capitalize on Popularity in Middle East
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Social Media Firms Move to Capitalize on Popularity in Middle East

For its most recent advertising push, the Saudi Arabian telecommunications giant Mobily did not turn to the street or television to engage with customers.

A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers

Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.

Phreaks and Geeks
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Phreaks and Geeks

One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.

How One Company Reinvented the Hand Dryer
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How One Company Reinvented the Hand Dryer

There's a lot of talk in politics about the desirability of American manufacturing and "green" jobs.

Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market

When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.

Drone Home
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Drone Home

A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...

Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says
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Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says

Silicon Valley's job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels, and San Francisco has emerged as a major new tech hub. But good times have not returned for all...

Award Will Accelerate Research on ­AV Simulations ­sing Supercomputers
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Award Will Accelerate Research on ­AV Simulations ­sing Supercomputers

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Wu Feng, associate professor at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues a project to improve the simulation speed...

Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars
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Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars

In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...

Samsung Plans to Conquer Silicon Valley
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Samsung Plans to Conquer Silicon Valley

Last December, a piece in the MIT Technology Review revealed that Young Sohn, Samsung Electronics' new Silicon Valley-based chief strategy officer, uses Apple products...

Inside Michael Dell's World
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Inside Michael Dell's World

Michael Dell is close to finishing a risky $23 billion deal to take private the computer company he founded nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to remake Dell Inc...

Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook

Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...

Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View

The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.

License Will Lead to Faster-Charging Batteries for Phones, Electric Vehicles
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License Will Lead to Faster-Charging Batteries for Phones, Electric Vehicles

An enhanced battery technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been licensed to Vorbeck Materials. The technology could reduce the time it...
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