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Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists
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Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists

Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...

San Jose Giants Harness Mobile App to Help with Digital Future
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San Jose Giants Harness Mobile App to Help with Digital Future

On game days, Ben Taylor has one of the most nerve-racking jobs on the San Jose Giants.

Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain
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Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain

The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...

Research Update: Genome Editing Becomes More Accurate
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Research Update: Genome Editing Becomes More Accurate

Earlier this year, MIT researchers developed a way to easily and efficiently edit the genomes of living cells. Now, the researchers have discovered key factors...

Hey Kids! Learn to Be "cyber Smart” from the Nsa's Youth Page!
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Hey Kids! Learn to Be "cyber Smart” from the Nsa's Youth Page!

The National Security Agency wants your kids to know that it's cool to be "cyber smart."

E-Book Vs. P-Book
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E-Book Vs. P-Book

When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning...

Enabling Time Travel For the Scholarly Web
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Enabling Time Travel For the Scholarly Web

An international team of information scientists has begun a study to investigate and prevent "reference rot," the dead hyperlinks that fail to connect to 30 percent...

Astronomer Uses Kepler Telescope's Data in Hunt For Spacecraft from Other Worlds
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Astronomer Uses Kepler Telescope's Data in Hunt For Spacecraft from Other Worlds

In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the...

Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some
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Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some

In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...

Where Do You Test a Tool Bound For Mars? Greenland
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Where Do You Test a Tool Bound For Mars? Greenland

Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...

Nasa Advanced Technology Concepts Selected For Study
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Nasa Advanced Technology Concepts Selected For Study

NASA has selected 12 proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts...

Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning

Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...

New Apps Do Heavy Lifting During the Job Search
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New Apps Do Heavy Lifting During the Job Search

Finding a job is not easy but a range of smartphone and web apps are designed to customize employment searches and even provide information on the competition.

Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell

Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...

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Israel's Military-Entrepreneurial Complex Owns Big Data

Two years ago, a half-dozen programmers and entrepreneurs started working together in a Tel Aviv basement to create one of Israel's 5,000 high-tech companies.

Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards
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Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards

Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same...

Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation
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Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation

The way we use digital devices has become big news.

In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
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In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management field? 

The Hut Where the Internet Began
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The Hut Where the Internet Began

Let's start at the end point: what you're doing right now. You are pulling information from a network onto a screen, enhancing your embodied experience with a communication...

Finding Harmony with Big Data
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Finding Harmony with Big Data

Technology developed by two MIT alumni entrepreneurs is helping developers create smarter online music-streaming services.
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