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The ­pside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley
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The ­pside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley

In October 2008, in the early days of the last economic collapse, Sequoia Capital invited founders of technology companies to a frank meeting outlining the new...

Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
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Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies

In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy...

The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools
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The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools

Harvard and Stanford may jump to mind when it comes to tech titans. But for the next generation of entrepreneur, we may need to look outside the Ivy League.

Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests
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Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests

Articles with shorter titles tend to get cited more often than those with longer headers, according to a new study that examined 140,000 papers published between...

Argonne Pushing Boundaries of Computing in Engine Simulations
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Argonne Pushing Boundaries of Computing in Engine Simulations

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory will be testing the limits of computing horsepower this year with a new simulation project that will harness 60 million...

Study Identifies New Cheating Method in Moocs
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Study Identifies New Cheating Method in Moocs

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have identified a new method of cheating specific to MOOCs and recommend a number of strategies to prevent such cheating...

What Is Elegance in Science?
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What Is Elegance in Science?

In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on...

Robokiller Wins Ftc Prize By Annihilating Robocalls
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Robokiller Wins Ftc Prize By Annihilating Robocalls

A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...

Inside the Surprisingly High-Stakes Quest to Design a Computer Program That 'gets' Sarcasm Online
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Inside the Surprisingly High-Stakes Quest to Design a Computer Program That 'gets' Sarcasm Online

A computer program that can reliably detect sarcasm is a formidable challenge, a key hurdle being that most cues signaling sarcasm are non-textual.

John Henry Holland, Who Computerized Evolution, Dies at 86
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John Henry Holland, Who Computerized Evolution, Dies at 86

John Henry Holland, a computer scientist whose seminal work on genetic algorithms, or computer codes that mimic sexually reproducing organisms, proved crucial in...

The Future of Forecasting
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The Future of Forecasting

Researchers in Europe have used the Titan supercomputer to refine their weather prediction model in hopes of understanding their future computational needs for...

Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency

Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.

It's Operating Systems Vs. Messaging Apps In The Battle For Tech's Next Frontier
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It's Operating Systems Vs. Messaging Apps In The Battle For Tech's Next Frontier

As mobile devices continue to explore and colonize the technology landscape, their conquests are leading us to a new era, beyond search and apps.

Nae Launches Website to Support Prek-12 Engineering Education Efforts
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Nae Launches Website to Support Prek-12 Engineering Education Efforts

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has launched a new website, LinkEngineering, intended to help PreK-12 educators in the United States implement engineering...

Stephen Hawking's Speech Tech Released By Intel
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Stephen Hawking's Speech Tech Released By Intel

The program interprets visual signals and translates them into words, which are then "spoken" by a machine.

Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network
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Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network

Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...

Study's Lesson For Business Leaders: Innovation Is Overrated
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Study's Lesson For Business Leaders: Innovation Is Overrated

A new study of Formula One racing shows that big innovations don't always deliver as much value as smaller, incremental changes.

Programming Camp Sparks Students' Scientific Curiosity
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Programming Camp Sparks Students' Scientific Curiosity

Argonne National Laboratory hosted a summer coding camp that showed 42 Chicago-area high school students what it's like to be a STEM professional.

­pstarts Raid Giants For Talent in Silicon Valley
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­pstarts Raid Giants For Talent in Silicon Valley

For the last year, Google's work force has increasingly been under attack from a herd of unicorns.

To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird

It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
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