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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car

Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...

Big Data, Big Salaries
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Big Data, Big Salaries

Businesses are embrace the value in analyzing Big Data, which is giving rise to a sharp increase in companies looking to hire data analysts, business intelligence...

Vint Cerf: Nobody's Too Old for Tech
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Vint Cerf: Nobody's Too Old for Tech

Technologies such as smartphones and social networks are changing the way people of all ages, not just young users, communicate and manage their day-to-day lives...

Would Tuition Discounts Get More Students to Major in Science?
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Would Tuition Discounts Get More Students to Major in Science?

In an experiment to steer more students into science, technology and engineering careers, the state of Florida is investigating whether tuition discounts could...

Work Begins on Hardware to Aid Edsac Replica Recreation
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Work Begins on Hardware to Aid Edsac Replica Recreation

Edsac—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator—ran its first program in 1949 and was created to help scientists at Cambridge University.

Ben Horowitz on the Impact of Software Everywhere
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Ben Horowitz on the Impact of Software Everywhere

Ben Horowitz may have the skeleton key to the decimation—sorry, transformation—of our economic and political lives.

Make Guns Smart
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Make Guns Smart

Voices across the political spectrum are debating how to prevent mass shootings such as the one in Newtown, Connecticut.

­w, Pnnl Tackle Big Data with Joint Computing Institute
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­w, Pnnl Tackle Big Data with Joint Computing Institute

The deluge of data coming from today's countless electronic devices will be harnessed to take on the most pressing problems facing science and society at a new...

The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer
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The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer

Americans are discarding a growing pile of electronics.

Job Applicants' Cultural Fit Can Trump Qualifications
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Job Applicants' Cultural Fit Can Trump Qualifications

"Cultural fit" is becoming a popular buzzword with hiring managers. In order to evaluate the cultural fit of a candidate, companies are increasingly making hiring...

Engineers Working to Help Biologists Cope with Big Data
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Engineers Working to Help Biologists Cope with Big Data

Iowa State computer and electrical engineers are developing computing tools to help biologists analyze all of the data that is commonly produced by today's research...

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Tiny Tools Help Advance Medical Discoveries

To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from...

Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs

It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.

Big Data, Java and Other Developer Skills: Top Hiring Priorities
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Big Data, Java and Other Developer Skills: Top Hiring Priorities

Big data-related jobs ranked fourth among the top information technology skills hiring executives are looking for in 2013, according to a recent Dice.com survey...

Project Login Aims to Double State's Computer Science Graduation Rate
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Project Login Aims to Double State's Computer Science Graduation Rate

The University of Maine and Educate Maine recently launched Project Login, which aims to double the number of computer science and information technology graduates...

5 Nerds to Watch in 2013
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5 Nerds to Watch in 2013

When Steve Jobs died, there was a lot of talk about who would be the next Steve Jobs. But the truth is, rarely can one person reshape the future. And breakthroughs...

Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
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Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export

To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...

If Tech Is So Important, Why Are It Wages Flat?
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If Tech Is So Important, Why Are It Wages Flat?

Despite technology's increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat, with the sluggish economy getting most of the blame for...

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?

I couldn't help thinking of John Le Carré's spy novels as I awaited my rendezvous with Jaron Lanier in a corner of the lobby of the stylish W Hotel just off Union...

Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt

The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
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