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Joe Girardi Adds 'app Designer' to Résumé
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Joe Girardi Adds 'app Designer' to Résumé

Though not a tech savant, the Yankee manager is the brains behind a new mobile baseball game.

Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance

Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...

The Martian's Andy Weir Is All Buddy-Buddy with Nasa
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The Martian's Andy Weir Is All Buddy-Buddy with Nasa

When sci-fi author Andy Weir went to visit mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, the International Space Station was going through a crisis—an air leak...

The Next Macgyver Will Be a Woman
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The Next Macgyver Will Be a Woman

Twelve finalists will travel to Hollywood this month to compete in "The Next MacGyver" competition, an incubator for television shows that aim to excite and recruit...

The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked
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The Hidden Lab Where Bankcards Are Hacked

It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...

Simulations Lead to Design of Near-Frictionless Material
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Simulations Lead to Design of Near-Frictionless Material

Argonne scientists used the Mira supercomputer to identify and improve a new mechanism for eliminating friction, which fed into the development of a hybrid material...

Tech's New Talent Pool: Iran
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Tech's New Talent Pool: Iran

Iran's nuclear nonproliferation agreement with the U.S. could make it easier for U.S. technology companies to recruit engineers from Iran, a country of 80 million...

Facebook, a Big User of Apple Machines, Writes and Open Sources Its Own Mac Os Security Software
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Facebook, a Big User of Apple Machines, Writes and Open Sources Its Own Mac Os Security Software

When Facebook Inc. engineers needed security software to monitor the thousands of Apple Inc. Mac laptops, they couldn't find what they needed.

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Gets a $100-Million Boost
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Gets a $100-Million Boost

You could say that the silence has been deafening.

Cray Lands Supercomputer Contract from Australia Bureau of Meteorology
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Cray Lands Supercomputer Contract from Australia Bureau of Meteorology

Cray Inc. has received a contract worth up to $53 million to provide the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia with a Cray XC40 supercomputer and Cray Sonexion 2000...

The Future, as Told By 'call of Duty: Black Ops 3'
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The Future, as Told By 'call of Duty: Black Ops 3'

If you've played just one first-person shooter game it was probably in the Call of Duty series.

A Second Degree for Your Tech Career?
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A Second Degree for Your Tech Career?

Think you want another degree? Join the club. Many techies decide to pursue graduate degrees as a way to advance their careers, hone an area of expertise, or switch...

The Tools Inspectors Can Use to Catch Iran's Nuclear Hijinks
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The Tools Inspectors Can Use to Catch Iran's Nuclear Hijinks

After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...

Archiving Tech Scans Mobile Apps For Copyright Infringing Content
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Archiving Tech Scans Mobile Apps For Copyright Infringing Content

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has expanded the capability of its mobile apps archiving technology to track copyright...

Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable
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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable

The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.

Wireless Device Delivers Drugs to Brain via Remote Control​​
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Wireless Device Delivers Drugs to Brain via Remote Control​​

Tiny, implantable devices have demonstrated an ability to deliver drugs to specific areas of the brain in mice. Eventually, the devices may be used to treat pain...

Brain-Based Algorithms Make For Better Networks
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Brain-Based Algorithms Make For Better Networks

Researchers have determined the rate at which the developing brain eliminates unneeded connections between neurons during early childhood, providing insight into...

A Team Member's View of All the Work on Earth It Took to Get New Horizons to Pluto
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A Team Member's View of All the Work on Earth It Took to Get New Horizons to Pluto

Science is hard and good science is harder—it takes persistence and tons of patience.

Data Breaches Boost Funding For Cybersecurity Startups
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Data Breaches Boost Funding For Cybersecurity Startups

Before Max Krohn, the OkCupid co-founder, played online matchmaker, he had a far-less-romantic interest in cryptography. But he couldn't see a way to make a living...

Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze
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Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze

In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...
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