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Pinpointing Poverty With Cellphone Data
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Pinpointing Poverty With Cellphone Data

University at Buffalo researchers are studying if mobile phone call data can help combat extreme poverty in Senegal.

Computer Researcher at Sandia Wins IEEE Early Career Award
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Computer Researcher at Sandia Wins IEEE Early Career Award

Sandia Labs researcher Kurt Ferreira, whose research interests include operating systems and massively parallel system run-times, has been selected for the 2015...

National Labs Collaborate on Next-Generation Supercomputer Development
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National Labs Collaborate on Next-Generation Supercomputer Development

Three U.S. national laboratories are working together to solve some of the world's most challenging problems by ensuring that the U.S. scientific community has...

How to Get Students to Stop ­sing Their Cellphones in Class
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How to Get Students to Stop ­sing Their Cellphones in Class

Almost all college students have a cellphone. They use them an average of eight to 10 hours a day and check them an average of every 15 to 20 minutes while they're...

The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly

Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."

Esnet and Nersc Blaze 400g Production Network Path
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Esnet and Nersc Blaze 400g Production Network Path

The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have built a 400 gigabit-per...

To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife

Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.

Fury and Fear in Ohio as It Jobs Go to India
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Fury and Fear in Ohio as It Jobs Go to India

The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company's Mason, Ohio, offices learned of their fates game-show style.

Mobile Phone Data Helps Ongoing Quake Relief Effort in Nepal
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Mobile Phone Data Helps Ongoing Quake Relief Effort in Nepal

Researchers from the University of Southampton are using mobile phone data to monitor the movement of people affected by the April earthquake in Nepal and help...

Quantum Materials: A New Paradigm For Computing?
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Quantum Materials: A New Paradigm For Computing?

Diamond spintronics, graphene-based infrared detectors, and other leading-edge technologies were discussed at the 2015 MIT Materials Day Symposium last month.

Relax: You Won't Be Replaced by a Robot
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Relax: You Won't Be Replaced by a Robot

Don't think a robot could take your job?

Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in ­.s.
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in ­.s.

Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...

From Army of One to Band of Tweeters
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From Army of One to Band of Tweeters

It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.

How to Make Better Visualizations
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How to Make Better Visualizations

Eye-tracking research reveals which types of visualizations best convey information and make it memorable. 

The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph
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The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph

To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.

Inside the Economics of Hacking
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Inside the Economics of Hacking

Imagine getting $1 million for finding a security weakness in a mobile operating system.

Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding
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Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding

Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...

Tackling the Large Hadron Collider's Big Data Challenge
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Tackling the Large Hadron Collider's Big Data Challenge

Argonne physicists are using the Mira supercomputer to perform simulations of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments with a leadership-class supercomputer, shedding...

Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android
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Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android

Since it first appeared in Apple's App Store last year, the free encrypted calling and texting app Signal has become the darling of the privacy community, recommended—and...

Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors

In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...
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