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Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People
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Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression" was the tagline for a Head & Shoulders shampoo ad campaign in the 1980s. It unfortunately encapsulates...

Autonomous Robots Race in MIT Tunnels
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Autonomous Robots Race in MIT Tunnels

Fully autonomous 1:10-scale model cars navigating through MIT's underground tunnels in a robot race this past January, with the winning team's vehicle running at...

Iphone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch
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Iphone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch

In early 2013, Kevin Lynch accepted a job offer from Apple. Funny thing about the offer: It didn’t say what he would be doing.

The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley
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The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley

Shariq Hashme squints at his laptop screen as he scrolls through hundreds of lines of computer code.

Exoskeleton Improves Efficiency of Human Walking
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Exoskeleton Improves Efficiency of Human Walking

An unpowered exoskeleton developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and North Carolina State helps individuals walk using less energy.

Tech Titans' Latest Project: Defy Death
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Tech Titans' Latest Project: Defy Death

Seated at the head of a table for 12 with a view of the city's soaring skyline, Peter Thiel was deep in conversation with his guests, eclectic scientists whose...

Science Has a 'publication Pollution' Problem, Expert Says
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Science Has a 'publication Pollution' Problem, Expert Says

The scientific community is facing a 'pollution problem' in academic publishing, one that poses a serious threat to the "trustworthiness, utility, and value of...

Why Shades of Asperger's Syndrome Are the Secret to Building a Great Tech Company
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Why Shades of Asperger's Syndrome Are the Secret to Building a Great Tech Company

The individuals who have founded some of the most success tech companies are decidedly weird.

Devices with Feeling: New Tech Creates Buttons and Shapes in Mid-Air
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Devices with Feeling: New Tech Creates Buttons and Shapes in Mid-Air

UltraHaptics is a young company with a big dream: changing the way we interact with electronic devices.

Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities

Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.

One-Third of College STEM Majors Switch Fields By Graduation
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One-Third of College STEM Majors Switch Fields By Graduation

A new study examines the scope and potential reasons why high-achieving students leave STEM majors.

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Start a Road Revolution
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Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Start a Road Revolution

A computational framework for connected vehicle technologies developed by the Urban Dynamics Institute and Oak Ridge National Laboratory could be the beginning...

Why China May Have the Most Factory Robots in the World By 2017
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Why China May Have the Most Factory Robots in the World By 2017

Having devoured many of the world's factory jobs, China is now handing them over to robots.

Diagnosis By Keyboard
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Diagnosis By Keyboard

By revealing loss of motor skills, typing patterns may help to identify the early onset of Parkinson's.

Toolkits For the Mind
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Toolkits For the Mind

When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...

Students Drop Stereotypes After They 'meet the Scientist'
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Students Drop Stereotypes After They 'meet the Scientist'

Young people who thought scientists were "boring" and "nerdy" changed their minds and found them "normal" and "interesting" after having an opportunity to meet...

The Fascinating Story of the Man Who Invented Stereo (and Pioneered Tv and Radar Too)
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The Fascinating Story of the Man Who Invented Stereo (and Pioneered Tv and Radar Too)

When you're rocking out to your favourite music or surroundsound has slapped you in the heart of your favourite movie, you know how important stereo sound is.

Tweets Measure Political Polarization
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Tweets Measure Political Polarization

Spanish researchers analyzed 16 million tweets from more than 3 million users following the death of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to quantify the extent of political...

AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans

Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.

Study Provides New Insights on MOOCs
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Study Provides New Insights on MOOCs

A joint MIT and Harvard University research team's investigation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) based on two years of data found that many enrollees are...
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