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Interviewing the Algorithm
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Interviewing the Algorithm

Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.

The Face Behind Bitcoin
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The Face Behind Bitcoin

Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old Japanese-American former defense contractor living in a modest Temple City, Calif. suburban home. Speaking with...

Social Physics
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Social Physics

Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...

Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget
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Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget

A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.

Workshop Reviews Big Data Privacy Policy
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Workshop Reviews Big Data Privacy Policy

MIT hosted a daylong workshop on big data and privacy, co-sponsored by the White House, as part of a 90-day review of data privacy policy announced in January...

Cleanroom Inventor Honored Posthumously By National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Cleanroom Inventor Honored Posthumously By National Inventors Hall of Fame

The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized...

Remembering Mit, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000
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Remembering Mit, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000

When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.

The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks
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The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks

The normally humdrum world of IT security is heating up, and not just because of comedian Stephen Colbert's controversial closing keynote at last week's RSA Conference...

The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple

Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...

Software Tools to Assure Security of Smartphones
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Software Tools to Assure Security of Smartphones

"Catastrophe is all but inevitable if cyber security measures fail to match the sophistication of saboteurs," says Suraj Kothari, Richardson Professor in Electrical...

Basic Questions About Pi Remain Unanswered
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Basic Questions About Pi Remain Unanswered

Pi stands apart, according to David H. Bailey and Jonathan Borwein. It is the only mathematical topic from antiquity still being researched today.

This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made
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This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made

The number of web pages on the internet is somewhere north of two billion, perhaps as many as double that.

Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator
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Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator

Sometimes playing a guitar with a plectrum isn't enough.

Five Reasons Why Your It Job Search Is Getting Harder
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Five Reasons Why Your It Job Search Is Getting Harder

Five major IT hiring trends have the potential to change the recruiting landscape over the next 12 months.

What Jobs Will the Robots Take?
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What Jobs Will the Robots Take?

Nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in within two decades, according to new research.

IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps
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IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps

IBM has announced its Watson Mobile Developer Challenge for mobile software developers to create applications that use its Watson cognitive computing platform on...

Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security

In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...

Futurist Says We'll ­se Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon
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Futurist Says We'll ­se Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon

The idea of erasing and implanting memories is a common feature of science fiction films such as Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The Evolution of the Twitter Revolution
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The Evolution of the Twitter Revolution

Experts say social media is playing an evolving role in organizing and broadcasting global protest movements. "It's becoming increasingly difficult to imagine...

Social Media’s 'law' of Short Messages
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Social Media’s 'law' of Short Messages

A newly published study shows a regular decline in the length of social media messages during public events as the volume of messages increases.
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