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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies
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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies

A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.

'accidental Techie' Is It Entrepreneur
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'accidental Techie' Is It Entrepreneur

Kurt Sippel started Applied Tech Solutions in 1999 and worked out of a 450-square-foot apartment. Today, the business's 62 employees provide computer support and...

Caution Flags For Tech In Classrooms
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Caution Flags For Tech In Classrooms

A group of recent studies on technology in education gives a sense that, even as computers become ubiquitous in classrooms, there's a lot we still don't know or...

Ibm's Watson Won Jeopardy, But Can It Win Business from Banks?
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Ibm's Watson Won Jeopardy, But Can It Win Business from Banks?

International Business Machines Corp is in an unusual fix in telling big U.S. banks they can use its Watson software of Jeopardy-winning fame as a cost-saving solution...

It's About to Get a Lot Easier For Apps to Talk to Each Other
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It's About to Get a Lot Easier For Apps to Talk to Each Other

IFTTT is a handy way of automating your life. You can use the service—the acronym means "if this, then that"—to, say, upload your Instagram photos to Dropbox, save...

Marconi Forged Today's Interconnected World of Communication
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Marconi Forged Today's Interconnected World of Communication

At Guglielmo Marconi's grand state funeral in Rome in 1937—orchestrated with military-style pomp by the black-shirted Benito Mussolini—the largest wreath on the...

Nist's Rolling Wireless Net Helps Improve First-Responder Communications
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Nist's Rolling Wireless Net Helps Improve First-Responder Communications

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) worked with industry partners to integrate commercial technologies into a mobile wireless communications...

User-Friendly Language For Programming Efficient Simulations
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User-Friendly Language For Programming Efficient Simulations

A new programming language can speed up computer simulations 200-fold or reduce the code they require by 90 percent.  

Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore
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Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore

Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.

Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else
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Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else

For teenagers who like to sing along with Ariana Grande and Flo Rida, Musical.ly is a must-have.

Why Save a Computer Virus?
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Why Save a Computer Virus?

On average, 82,000 new malware threats are created each day.

Chinese Testing Virtual Reality Classrooms and Computer-Based Adaptive Teaching
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Chinese Testing Virtual Reality Classrooms and Computer-Based Adaptive Teaching

NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a hack-and-slash video-game maker, is an unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers.

Smarter Self-Assembly Opens New Pathways For Nanotechnology
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Smarter Self-Assembly Opens New Pathways For Nanotechnology

Brookhaven Lab scientists have discovered a way to create nanoscale structures that snap together in complex patterns with unprecedented efficiency.

3-D Galaxy-Mapping Project Enters Construction Phase
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3-D Galaxy-Mapping Project Enters Construction Phase

A 3-D sky-mapping project called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which will measure the light of millions of galaxies, has received formal approval...

Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
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Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.

Nics, a Communication Platform For First Responders, Now Available Worldwide
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Nics, a Communication Platform For First Responders, Now Available Worldwide

The Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS), a mobile, web-based communication platform for first responders, is now available worldwide, according to the...

Toward Practical Quantum Computers
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Toward Practical Quantum Computers

Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.

Researchers Combine Simulation, Experiment For Nanoscale 3-D Printing
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Researchers Combine Simulation, Experiment For Nanoscale 3-D Printing

Researchers have developed a simulation-guided drafting process to improve focused electron beam induced deposition, which opens new possibilities in 3-D nano-manufacturing...

Don't Baby These Kid Hackers
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Don't Baby These Kid Hackers

Emmett Brewer is no taller than the lectern on the stage, so he stands to the side of it to deliver his presentation. He's got a Dennis the Menace hairdo and he's...

Making a One-Way Street For Electricity
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Making a One-Way Street For Electricity

Scientists show how a buckyball buffer helps conduct electricity in only one direction, vital for molecule-sized circuits.
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