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Taking An Innovative Approach to Battery Design
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Taking An Innovative Approach to Battery Design

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway's radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.

Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
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Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking

In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and...

Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub
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Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub

Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...

Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft
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Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft

While many of the boys in Idan Yahya's high school class were buffing up and preparing themselves for selection into elite combat units, this gawky teenager was...

Engineer Tackles Nanoscale Computing Challenges
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Engineer Tackles Nanoscale Computing Challenges

University of Illinois at Chicago assistant professor Wenjing Rao has won a National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career award that she will use to explore...

Turning Dumbphones to Smartphones
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Turning Dumbphones to Smartphones

"I'm not a mobile phone guy," says Guy Kamgaing with a chuckle.

The Biggest Obstacle to Embracing Big Data? You
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The Biggest Obstacle to Embracing Big Data? You

The technological hurdles to embracing big data are well-known at this point—McKinsey & Co. predicted a shortage of nearly 200,000 skilled data analysts by 2018—but...

Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.
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Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.

AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...

NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images
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NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images

One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students...

Six Research Teams Begin ­sing Blue Waters Early Science System
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Six Research Teams Begin ­sing Blue Waters Early Science System

Six research teams have begun using the first phase of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer to study some of the most challenging problems in science...

The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It
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The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It

For those of you reluctant to welcome our new robot overloads, it might be time to reconsider your stance.

Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness
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Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness

Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...

Physicists Identify and Suppress Barrier to Faster Graphene Devices
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Physicists Identify and Suppress Barrier to Faster Graphene Devices

A team of physicists from Vanderbilt University report that they have nailed down the source of the interference inhibiting the rapid flow of electrons through...

Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+
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Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+

Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...

Hail to the Geeks
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Hail to the Geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...

Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge
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Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...

What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball
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What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball

The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...

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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers

As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...

Gordon Supercomputer: Ready for Researchers
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Gordon Supercomputer: Ready for Researchers

The Gordon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center has begun helping national academic researchers as well as industry and government agencies perform...

How To Kill Patent Trolls
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How To Kill Patent Trolls

Firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents—are the scourge of innovators everywhere...
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