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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?

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.

Brazil: The Social Media Capital of the ­niverse
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Brazil: The Social Media Capital of the ­niverse

When Barbosa family members botched their cover of an old Brazilian gospel song last year on a family video, they thought it was pretty funny—funny enough to upload...

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.

Smartphones, Tablets Help Researchers Improve Storm Forecasts
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Smartphones, Tablets Help Researchers Improve Storm Forecasts

Atmospheric scientists are using pressure readings from some new smartphones and tablet computers to improve short-term thunderstorm forecasts. 

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...

Facebook, It's Time For a Break
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Facebook, It's Time For a Break

We all have that friend who has stubbornly disappeared from Facebook at one time or another, only to reappear some weeks or months later.

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...

Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy
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Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy

MIT's third annual Diversity Summit, held last week at Kresge Auditorium, reflected the growing importance of inclusion at the Institute: From 70 attendees at the...

Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System

The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion
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Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion

Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of most of the world's top-selling electronic gadgets including Apple Inc's iPhone, is trying to raise participation in...
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