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For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program
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For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program

She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her, drawn to her knowing sense of humor and...

Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope
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Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope

There is a gaping hole in the latest effort to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), one so big it could hold an estimated 357 million...

Politics Overshadows U.s. Tech Firms' Hopes For Entering Iran
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Politics Overshadows U.s. Tech Firms' Hopes For Entering Iran

Iran has the potential to be a boom market for American tech companies.

New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies
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New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies

The leather-bound diaries of a 19th-century high-school principal in southwestern India are helping change how archivists around the world handle email.

16 Trends That Will Define the Future of Video Games
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16 Trends That Will Define the Future of Video Games

Hundreds of game developers, publishers and analysts recently descended on Brighton for the annual Develop conference.

Obama's New Executive Order Says the ­.s. Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer
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Obama's New Executive Order Says the ­.s. Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer

President Obama has established a new initiative across multiple government agencies that will focus entirely on creating the fastest supercomputers ever devised...

As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change

People from diverse walks of life are switching careers as they seek a future in the burgeoning U.S. technology industry, with emphasis on learning coding and data...

Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target

Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.

Genomics Pioneer Jun Wang on His New AI Venture
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Genomics Pioneer Jun Wang on His New AI Venture

Jun Wang is one of China's most famous scientists.

As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change

After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.

Fau to Develop ­nmanned Marine Vehicles For Bridge Inspections
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Fau to Develop ­nmanned Marine Vehicles For Bridge Inspections

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University have received a $187,000 grant from the Florida Department of Transportation to research and develop the use of unmanned...

Lessons from the Digital Classroom
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Lessons from the Digital Classroom

In four small schools scattered across San Francisco, a data experiment is under way.

Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits
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Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits

If you visit Softbank's flagship store in downtown Tokyo, you may be greeted by a charming, slightly manic new member of the staff: a gleaming white humanoid robot...

The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the ­gliest Corners of the Internet
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The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the ­gliest Corners of the Internet

When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...

Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance

Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...

The Martian's Andy Weir Is All Buddy-Buddy with Nasa
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The Martian's Andy Weir Is All Buddy-Buddy with Nasa

When sci-fi author Andy Weir went to visit mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, the International Space Station was going through a crisis—an air leak...

The Next Macgyver Will Be a Woman
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The Next Macgyver Will Be a Woman

Twelve finalists will travel to Hollywood this month to compete in "The Next MacGyver" competition, an incubator for television shows that aim to excite and recruit...

The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked
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The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked

It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...

Tech's New Talent Pool: Iran
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Tech's New Talent Pool: Iran

Iran's nuclear nonproliferation agreement with the U.S. could make it easier for U.S. technology companies to recruit engineers from Iran, a country of 80 million...

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Gets a $100-Million Boost
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Gets a $100-Million Boost

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