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How to Spot Home-Grown Isis Recruits Online Before They Leave
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How to Spot Home-Grown Isis Recruits Online Before They Leave

Britain's youngest suicide bomber. That is how the name Talha Asmal was introduced to the public last week.

Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire
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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire

Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.

Scientists Create Computational Algorithm For Fact-Checking
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Scientists Create Computational Algorithm For Fact-Checking

Network scientists at Indiana University have developed a new computational method that can leverage any body of knowledge to aid in the complex human task of...

Nsf Awards $12 Million to Spur an Engineering Education Revolution
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Nsf Awards $12 Million to Spur an Engineering Education Revolution

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $12 million to engineering and computer science departments to enact revolutionary, scalable, and sustainable changes...

The Man Who Rebuilt 1920s Harlem in Virtual Reality
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The Man Who Rebuilt 1920s Harlem in Virtual Reality

Over the course of the last two decades, Bryan Carter has built a small city. Well, it’s more of a neighborhood, really.

What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That
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What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That

The world of education has become a rapidly expanding universe.

Free Software Tool Analyzes Cities as Spatial Networks
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Free Software Tool Analyzes Cities as Spatial Networks

A network analysis plugin helps urban planners and architects understand the social and economic consequences of city planning.

U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research
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U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research

The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...

Halo and the Hololens: Microsoft Teases Its Virtual World at E3 2015
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Halo and the Hololens: Microsoft Teases Its Virtual World at E3 2015

Despite being a billion-dollar industry, the future of video games remains murky.

Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight
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Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight

Researchers propose a potential new way to maintain communication with re-entering spacecraft and other vehicles by matching resonance of the communication antenna...

No One Questions Google's Ability to Innovate, So Why Do Its Moonshots Look Like Money Pits?
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No One Questions Google's Ability to Innovate, So Why Do Its Moonshots Look Like Money Pits?

Consider a question that we have been puzzling over at the World Economic Forum.

What the Blank Makes Quantum Dots Blink?
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What the Blank Makes Quantum Dots Blink?

University of Chicago scientists using simulations confirm that defect states may be behind fluorescence intermittency, or blinking, in silicon nanocrystals.

Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living
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Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living

Google's ambitions and investments have increasingly broadened beyond its digital origins in Internet search and online advertising into the arena of physical objects...

Will Your Self-Driving Car Be Programmed to Kill You?
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Will Your Self-Driving Car Be Programmed to Kill You?

An ethical puzzler commonly known as the Trolley Problem has been given a 21st-century adaption to address a modern obsession: autonomous vehicles.

How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market
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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market

It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head.

Hackathon to Identify Cyber Security Talent of the Future
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Hackathon to Identify Cyber Security Talent of the Future

A 24-hour hackathon will mark the start of a new partnership between the University of Warwick's Cyber Security Centre and Callsign Inc. to develop and support...

IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream
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IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream

International Business Machines Corp. has thrown its weight behind Spark, an increasingly popular tool that is used to analyze large amounts of data in real time...

Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?
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Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?

A new study shows that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into employment levels, precisely because people's communications patterns change when they...

Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
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Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age

To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.

Exotic Property Could Help Beat the Heat Problem in Computer Chips
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Exotic Property Could Help Beat the Heat Problem in Computer Chips

X-ray studies at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have observed an exotic property that could warp the electronic structure of a material in a way that...
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