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The Internet Is Broken; Act Accordingly
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The Internet Is Broken; Act Accordingly

Costin Raiu is a cautious man.

Why Startups Should Steal Ideas and Hire Weirdos
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Why Startups Should Steal Ideas and Hire Weirdos

The most consistently creative and insightful people are explorers.

The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
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The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh

It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...

NASA's Troubled $8-Billion Hubble Successor Is Back on Track
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NASA's Troubled $8-Billion Hubble Successor Is Back on Track

The Hubble Space Telescope is still operating, but its successor is already waiting in the wings.

When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
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When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?

Since the beginning of this century, the most rapidly advancing field in the life sciences, and perhaps in human inquiry of any sort, has been genomics.

Fostering Women in STEM
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Fostering Women in STEM

Georgetown University researchers are looking for creative ways to encourage women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields...

Scholars Offer Scientific Solution To 'persistent' Bias in Academia
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Scholars Offer Scientific Solution To 'persistent' Bias in Academia

Scientists say that specific, rigorous interventions will lead to positive outcomes in addressing what they call persistent gender, racial, and ethnic bias in...

You're Who? Not Even Close
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You're Who? Not Even Close

With the alighting of fashion's air-smooching society, this week's tempest of runway shows, private dinners and after-parties offers endless opportunities for gate...

Snowden Leaks: The Man Who Watches Over the Nsa
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Snowden Leaks: The Man Who Watches Over the Nsa

Whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations have revealed that a huge capability resides within America's National Security Agency to collect and analyse communications...

How Politics Divide Facebook Friendships
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How Politics Divide Facebook Friendships

Facebook could help diffuse possible arguments and alleviate tension between friends by displaying their shared interests during confrontational conversations,...

12 Predictions For the Future of Programming
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12 Predictions For the Future of Programming

Forecasting the next hit technology is challenging due to the rapid pace of change, but InfoWorld offers 12 predictions for the future of programming over the next...

Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device
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Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device

Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons...

New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
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New Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time

Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. 

Dropbox Ceo Drew Houston
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Dropbox Ceo Drew Houston

Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the cloud and sync new versions across multiple devicesHiding...

Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense

As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...

Why Google Kept Motorola's Research Lab
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Why Google Kept Motorola's Research Lab

Google's $2.9 billion sale of Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC maker Lenovo might seem like lousy business, given Google's $12.5 billion purchase in 2012 and losses...

Materials Database Proves Its Mettle With New Discoveries
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Materials Database Proves Its Mettle With New Discoveries

A massive computerized database and simulation system can sort through thousands of materials and help materials scientists identify those that could improve the...

Scientists Reading Fewer Papers For First Time in 35 Years
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Scientists Reading Fewer Papers For First Time in 35 Years

A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to have halted.

New Technique Grows Tiny 'Hairy' Materials at the Microscale
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New Technique Grows Tiny 'Hairy' Materials at the Microscale

Materials scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have announced a technique for growing tiny "hairy" materials that assemble themselves at the microscale...

In the Eye of the Beholder
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In the Eye of the Beholder

Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...
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