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How Do Israel's Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly
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How Do Israel's Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly

Over the course of 30 years working in Israeli intelligence, Shmuel Bar immersed himself in the hermeneutics of terrorism.

The Jokes, the Scene (Oh, and the Winners) at the Film Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards
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The Jokes, the Scene (Oh, and the Winners) at the Film Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards

The beautiful people hog most of the headlines during Oscars season, but it was the geeks who inherited the Earth as the motion picture academy handed out its annual...

Scientists ­se Smartphones to Measure Train Ride Comfort
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Scientists ­se Smartphones to Measure Train Ride Comfort

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a smartphone app that allows rail passengers to measure ride comfort themselves using their smartphones...

Protecting Bulk Power Systems from Hackers
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Protecting Bulk Power Systems from Hackers

Reliability measures of electrical grid is a crucial step towards improving its security.

Being Black in Tech Can Cost You $10k a Year
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Being Black in Tech Can Cost You $10k a Year

African-American technology workers receive an average $10,000 less annually than whites in New York and San Francisco, according to a survey from the Hired online...

Wireless Brain Implants Might Restore Partial Vision
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Wireless Brain Implants Might Restore Partial Vision

The University of Chicago Medical Center has been awarded a $2.4 million, five-year grant to develop a system of wireless brain implants that might restore partial...

Is the Library the New Public Square?
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Is the Library the New Public Square?

The Future of the Libraries Task Force seeks feedback on recommendations to make MIT's research library an open global platform. 

Cryptoparties Teach Attendees How to Stay Anonymous Online
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Cryptoparties Teach Attendees How to Stay Anonymous Online

Don't expect balloons and singing at a cryptoparty.

The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding

When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming...

Coming Technology Will Likely Destroy Millions of Jobs. Is Trump Ready?
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Coming Technology Will Likely Destroy Millions of Jobs. Is Trump Ready?

American manufacturing job losses to China and Mexico were a major theme of the presidential campaign, and President Trump has followed up on his promise to pressure...

IBM to Train 25 Million Africans For Free to Build Workforce
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IBM to Train 25 Million Africans For Free to Build Workforce

IBM is ramping up its digital-skills training program to accommodate as many as 25 million Africans in the next five years, looking toward building a future workforce...

New Method Improves Accuracy of Imaging Systems
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New Method Improves Accuracy of Imaging Systems

New research provides scientists looking at single molecules or into deep space a more accurate way to analyze imaging data captured by microscopes, telescopes,...

Engineers Develop Powerful Millimeter-Wave Signal Generator
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Engineers Develop Powerful Millimeter-Wave Signal Generator

Integrated circuit researchers at the University of California, Irvine have created a silicon microchip-based component that could revolutionize scanning, spectroscopy...

Sandia Adds Augmented Reality to Training Toolbox
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Sandia Adds Augmented Reality to Training Toolbox

Computer scientists have adapted augmented reality headsets to enhance physical security training and analysis at Sandia National Laboratories.

Supercomputers For Quantum Computers
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Supercomputers For Quantum Computers

Using supercomputers, scientists from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predicted possible new qubits built out of strained aluminum nitride...

As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the ­niverse Are Threatened
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As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the ­niverse Are Threatened

At its height back in 2000, the U.S. cash equities trading desk at Goldman Sachs’s New York headquarters employed 600 traders, buying and selling stock on the orders...

Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies
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Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies

Shortly after his election victory, Donald Trump assembled executives from tech giants including Amazon, Apple and Google for a meeting at Trump Tower meant to...

Machine Learning Method Accurately Predicts Metallic Defects
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Machine Learning Method Accurately Predicts Metallic Defects

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have built and trained machine learning algorithms to predict defect behavior in certain intermetallic compounds...

Hour of Code Sends Computer Scientists to Schools
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Hour of Code Sends Computer Scientists to Schools

Computer scientists from Argonne and Fermilab National Laboratory and computer science students from the University of Chicago visited 49 schools in the greater...

Microsoft Leads Pushback Against Trump Immigration Order
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Microsoft Leads Pushback Against Trump Immigration Order

Microsoft Corp. is asking U.S. officials to grant exceptions for law-abiding, visa-holding workers and students from President Donald Trump’s immigration order,...
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