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Let There Be Light
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Let There Be Light

University of Utah Professor Mike Scarpulla and NREL Senior Scientist Kirstin Alberi have developed a theory that light can stamp out defects in semiconductors,...

Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera
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Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the University of Georgia believe they can make eye tracking technology pervasive with software turns any smartphone into an eye-tracking...

Why Do Women Leave Engineering?
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Why Do Women Leave Engineering?

A new study proposes that negative group dynamics of teamwork and internships may deter many women in the engineering profession.

Promising Gene Therapies Pose Million-Dollar Conundrum
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Promising Gene Therapies Pose Million-Dollar Conundrum

Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already available in Europe. The developments mark a triumph...

Researchers Gear Up Galaxy-Seeking Robots For a Test Run
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Researchers Gear Up Galaxy-Seeking Robots For a Test Run

A prototype system, designed as a test for a planned array of 5,000 galaxy-seeking robots, is taking shape at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley...

Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry
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Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry

Nick McKeown and his new startup, Barefoot Networks, just launched out of stealth. That's Silicon Valley-speak for trumpeting the arrival of your new startup in...

X-Ray Experiments Show How Memristors Work
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X-Ray Experiments Show How Memristors Work

Scientists at Hewlett Packard Enterprise have experimentally confirmed critical aspects of how the memristor works at an atomic scale, an important step in designing...

Artificial Intelligence Produces Realistic Sounds That Fool Humans
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Artificial Intelligence Produces Realistic Sounds That Fool Humans

Researchers from MIT CSAIL have demonstrated an algorithm that has effectively learned how to predict sound: When shown a silent video clip of an object being hit...

The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step
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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step

In the early 1970s, at Silicon Valley's Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells...

The Man Who Can Map the Chemicals All Over Your Body
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The Man Who Can Map the Chemicals All Over Your Body

Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...

Computer Science Salaries Rise With Demand For New Graduates
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Computer Science Salaries Rise With Demand For New Graduates

As scores of college graduates hit the job market this spring, their employment prospects are more promising than those of last year's graduating class. In particular...

A Texas Jury's Guilty Verdict Should Worry It Admins
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A Texas Jury's Guilty Verdict Should Worry It Admins

If you're a systems administrator working in the United States, a recent decision from 12 Texan jurors should give you a moment of pause before you next hit the...

Strategic Advisor Discusses Doe Exascale Initiative
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Strategic Advisor Discusses Doe Exascale Initiative

Argonne National Laboratory Distinguished Fellow Paul Messina discusses the National Strategic Computing Initiative to pave the road toward an exascale computing...

Nanomaterial Offers Promise in Bendable, Wearable Electronic Devices
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Nanomaterial Offers Promise in Bendable, Wearable Electronic Devices

An ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive to electric current has been produced by a cheap and simple method devised by an international...

How Intel Makes a Chip
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How Intel Makes a Chip

Before entering the cleanroom in D1D, as Intel calls its 17 million-cubic-foot microprocessor factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, it's a good idea to carefully wash your...

This Is Where the Real Action in Artificial Intelligence Takes Place
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This Is Where the Real Action in Artificial Intelligence Takes Place

Swarms of journalists lined the halls of a Southern California oceanfront resort recently to see tech luminaries like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk discuss the Gawker...

The World's Top Economists Want to Work For Amazon and Facebook
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The World's Top Economists Want to Work For Amazon and Facebook

At an April meetup organized by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), a Facebook researcher named Michael Bailey showed his peers how somebody...

New Tools Turn Manufacturing Workers Into Robo-Employees
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New Tools Turn Manufacturing Workers Into Robo-Employees

The next-generation factory worker isn't a robot, but a tech-augmented human—a kind of "Iron Man" outfitted with performance-enhancing gear.

Stanford Class Aims to Seed a Reserve Officers Training Corps for Techies
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Stanford Class Aims to Seed a Reserve Officers Training Corps for Techies

On Tuesday, I listened to eight teams of Stanford students present their solutions to current national security problems on the final day of H4D: Hacking for Defense...

Why the World Hates Silicon Valley
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Why the World Hates Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the new Rome. As in the time of Caesar, the world is grappling with an advanced city-state dominating much of the planet, injecting its technology...
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