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Machine Dreams
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Machine Dreams

There is a shrine inside Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Iowa State Developing Computer Security Literacy Curriculum
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Iowa State Developing Computer Security Literacy Curriculum

Iowa State University researchers are developing a computer security literacy curriculum designed for middle school and high school students.

Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards
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Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays...

How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues

Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.

Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data

The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...

Better Battery Imaging Paves Way for Renewable Energy Future
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Better Battery Imaging Paves Way for Renewable Energy Future

Researchers have developed an X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries which could improve...

These Robots Serve ­p Cocktails, but Can They Tell If You've Drunk Too Much?
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These Robots Serve ­p Cocktails, but Can They Tell If You've Drunk Too Much?

Some robots assemble cars or iPhones. Others vacuum floors or roam Amazon.com warehouses.

Science and Engineering Graduate School Enrollment Increases
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Science and Engineering Graduate School Enrollment Increases

The number of full-time graduate students enrolled in science and engineering programs in the United States rose by 2.4 percent in 2013, due largely to a 7.9 percent...

Climate Scientists Join Search For Alien Earths
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Climate Scientists Join Search For Alien Earths

The hunt for life beyond the Solar System is gaining new partners: NASA climatologists.

Universities Collaborate on Unmanned Aerial Systems Studies
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Universities Collaborate on Unmanned Aerial Systems Studies

Wichita State University and Kansas State University are working together with the Federal Aviation Administration to minimize the risk associated with operating...

Iran Cyber Attacks on the Rise
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Iran Cyber Attacks on the Rise

A team of researchers reports that Iran is emerging as a significant cyberthreat to the United States and its allies, and says Iranian-backed digital attacks targeting...

The Robotics Inventors Who Are Trying to Take the 'hard' Out of Hardware
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The Robotics Inventors Who Are Trying to Take the 'hard' Out of Hardware

In a converted pipe organ factory in the city’s Mission District, Saul Griffith works on products that are smarter, cheaper and, above all, squiggly.

Thumbnail Track Pad
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Thumbnail Track Pad

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.

Fateful Phone Call Spawned Moore's Law
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Fateful Phone Call Spawned Moore's Law

In their new book, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, authors Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock and Rachel Jones chronicle...

Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Quest to Make Faster, Cheaper Gadgets
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Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Quest to Make Faster, Cheaper Gadgets

Mark Bohr peers through the yellow-tinted windows outside D1D, one of Intel's secretive computer chip factories housed at its 300-acre campus here, about a 30-minute...

Fighting the Next Generation of Cyberattacks
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Fighting the Next Generation of Cyberattacks

The U.S. Department of Defense has provided a $3 million grant to a team of computer scientists to develop a software analyzer that can thwart so-called algorithmic...

Happy Birthday to Moore's Law
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Happy Birthday to Moore's Law

Few revolutions can be said to have lasted for half a century, or to have wrought disruptive change at a predictable pace.

The Printed Organs Coming to a Body Near You
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The Printed Organs Coming to a Body Near You

The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery.

Incite Seeking Proposals For ­.s. Leadership Computing Facilities
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Incite Seeking Proposals For ­.s. Leadership Computing Facilities

The INCITE program is accepting proposals for high-performance computing projects that require its Leadership Computing Facility centers and cannot be performed...

Uv Light Robot to Clean Hospital Rooms Could Help Stop Spread of 'superbugs'
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Uv Light Robot to Clean Hospital Rooms Could Help Stop Spread of 'superbugs'

Researchers are studying the effectiveness of a germ-zapping robot to clean hospital rooms, which could prevent the spread of "superbugs" — saving countless dollars...
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