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Get Ready for the Computers of the Future
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Get Ready for the Computers of the Future

Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like.

Google Grant Broadens Reach of CS Course for High-School Teachers
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Google Grant Broadens Reach of CS Course for High-School Teachers

University of Alabama professor of computer science Jeff Gray will lead a free, online course this summer to train high-school teachers interested in broadening...

Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet
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Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet

Brewster Kahle is quick to point out that we are not standing inside a former Scientology church.

A Summer Reading List For Innovators
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A Summer Reading List For Innovators

For this summer's reading list, we bring you seven very different types of books that have been published since the start of the year, each of them exploring the...

Growing Graphene
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Growing Graphene

Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have come up with a new way of producing sheets of graphene, in a process that lends itself to scalable manufacturing...

Why Indian Students are Opting for Overseas Undergraduate Studies
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Why Indian Students are Opting for Overseas Undergraduate Studies

A growing number of the brightest and best Indian students are choosing overseas education at the undergrad level, rather than waiting for postgraduate studies...

Swarm and Fuzzy
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Swarm and Fuzzy

When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting.

Belgium Desperately Seeking Cybersecurity Czar
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Belgium Desperately Seeking Cybersecurity Czar

At the tail end of a bruising 2013, Belgium's government decided it had had enough.

The Trouble With IBM
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The Trouble With IBM

In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA.

'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?

The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.

Tinkerers Refine Technologies at Internet of Things Lab
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Tinkerers Refine Technologies at Internet of Things Lab

A wrist-worn device designed to help people take the right medication at the right time in the right dosage is turning heads in the business, health insurance,...

Computer Science Grad Forms Cryptocurrency Start-Up
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Computer Science Grad Forms Cryptocurrency Start-Up

David Vorick is leaving Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with more than a degree in computer science; he's also taking with him a fledgling cryptocurrency and...

Man Behind the First Computer Password: It's Become a Nightmare
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Man Behind the First Computer Password: It's Become a Nightmare

In the early 1960s, Fernando Corbató helped deploy the first known computer password.

Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit

My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...

Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State
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Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State

A team of researchers has produced a detailed visualization of how sodium manganese dioxide behaves during charging and discharging, elucidating an exotic molecular...

Nasa Lets Enthusiasts Reboot Zombie 1970s Spacecraft
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Nasa Lets Enthusiasts Reboot Zombie 1970s Spacecraft

A dormant spacecraft will swing past Earth in August, and private space flight enthusiasts have plans to put it back to work.

A New Kind of Media Theory
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A New Kind of Media Theory

MIT's Fox Harrell is looking to give computer games, social media, and digital media the same opportunities for social reflection present in literature, film, and...

The Age of Quantum Computing Has (almost) Arrived
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The Age of Quantum Computing Has (almost) Arrived

Google owns a lot of computers—perhaps a million servers stitched together into the fastest, most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet.

Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander
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Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander

NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review...

Coding Schools Tone Down Rosy Job Script
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Coding Schools Tone Down Rosy Job Script

Learn to code. Get a job. Then what?
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