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Are Performance-Monitoring Wearables an Affront to Workers' Rights?
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Are Performance-Monitoring Wearables an Affront to Workers' Rights?

At U.K. supermarket chain Tesco, workers wear sensor-bearing armbands to track inventory while unloading goods. 

Latest to Quit Google's Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
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Latest to Quit Google's Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist

A roboticist and crucial member of the team that created Google's self-driving car is leaving the company, the latest in a string of departures by important technologists...

Amateur Astronomers Are Helping Guide Space Pros to Jupiter and Beyond
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Amateur Astronomers Are Helping Guide Space Pros to Jupiter and Beyond

The United Kingdom is a terrible place to use a telescope, at least if you consider the weather.

Remembering a Thinker Who Thought About Thinking
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Remembering a Thinker Who Thought About Thinking

The field of educational technology is mourning a visionary whose work was considered 50 years ahead of its time.

Nsf Commits $35 Million to Improve Scientific Software
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Nsf Commits $35 Million to Improve Scientific Software

The U.S. National Science Foundation will spend $35 million over 5 years to support scientific software development, maintenance, and education.

This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
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This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult

Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America's 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services.

Apple's New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors to Better Protect Our Data
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Apple's New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors to Better Protect Our Data

Ten years ago, researchers at Microsoft introduced a breakthrough approach to protecting privacy in the age of big data. Later this year their idea, known as differential...

Cornell Scientists Convert Carbon Dioxide, Create Electricity
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Cornell Scientists Convert Carbon Dioxide, Create Electricity

Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a novel method for capturing greenhouse gas and converting it into carbon-rich compounds while also producing electrical...

Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws

It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.

Apple Offers Big Cash Rewards For Help Finding Security Bugs
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Apple Offers Big Cash Rewards For Help Finding Security Bugs

Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that...

A New Family Member for 2-D Nanomaterials
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A New Family Member for 2-D Nanomaterials

A team of researchers has devised a new method to grow atomically thin films of materials known as hybrid perovskites, a possible successor to silicon and alternative...

Queer Teens Take On Tech
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Queer Teens Take On Tech

A summer camp for LGBTQ young adults hopes to debug the industry's diversity problem.

How You Might Soon Be Able to 'Play' With the Cats in Cat Videos
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How You Might Soon Be Able to 'Play' With the Cats in Cat Videos

Researchers at MIT say they've found a way for viewers to 'touch' objects that appear on a screen.

The Hr Person at Your Next Job May Actually Be a Bot
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The Hr Person at Your Next Job May Actually Be a Bot

The next time you’re hired, you might find yourself getting information about payroll, vacations, and expenses by talking to a chatbot instead of consulting a handbook...

Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals

University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a...

America ­ses Stealthy Submarines to Hack Other Countries' Systems
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America ­ses Stealthy Submarines to Hack Other Countries' Systems

When Donald Trump effectively called for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails las Wednesday, the GOP nominee's remarks touched off a (predictable) media...

Carbon Nanotube 'stitches' Strengthen Composites
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Carbon Nanotube 'stitches' Strengthen Composites

A method to reinforce composite materials could help make airplane frames lighter, more damage-resistant.

Patented Bioelectrodes Have Electrifying Taste For Waste
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Patented Bioelectrodes Have Electrifying Taste For Waste

New research at Michigan State University shows how Geobacter bacteria grow as films on electrodes and generate electricity — a process that's ready to be scaled...

China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech
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China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech

Snapchat and Kik, the messaging services, use bar codes that look like drunken checkerboards to connect people and share information with a snap of their smartphone...

Mathematicians Finally Starting to ­nderstand Epic Abc Proof
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Mathematicians Finally Starting to ­nderstand Epic Abc Proof

It has taken nearly four years, but mathematicians are finally starting to comprehend Shinichi Mochizuki's mammoth proof that could revolutionize understanding...
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