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Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down
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Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down

Depending on whom you ask, the coming year is supposed to be the one during which server chips based on the ARM architecture that is now so popular in smartphones...

Employers Receptive to Hiring It Job Candidates With Mooc Educations
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Employers Receptive to Hiring It Job Candidates With Mooc Educations

IT professionals looking to advance their careers can benefit from taking a MOOC, employers say.

What Do Computer Models Reveal About Likely Impacts of Climate Change?
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What Do Computer Models Reveal About Likely Impacts of Climate Change?

Impact models attempt to translate changes in natural systems into effects on agriculture, weather, and human health.

Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50
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Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50

NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...

The Geeks on the Front Lines
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The Geeks on the Front Lines

Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...

Cs Professor's Research Contributes to System Recognized as Best Invention of 2013
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Cs Professor's Research Contributes to System Recognized as Best Invention of 2013

Orlando Auciello, a professor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Sciencein, co-developed a film that enables a microchip to be implanted in...

Heavy Internet Use Shares Symptoms of Addiction
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Heavy Internet Use Shares Symptoms of Addiction

Young adults who are heavy users of the Internet may also exhibit signs of addiction, say researchers in a recently published study.

'become an Ios Developer in 8 Weeks': The Truth About Hack Schools
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'become an Ios Developer in 8 Weeks': The Truth About Hack Schools

After the design firm where he worked as a web developer went under, Ray S. turned the bad news into an opportunity to transition into iOS development.

Professor Helps Address Need for Foreign-Language Science Textbooks
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Professor Helps Address Need for Foreign-Language Science Textbooks

Boston University Professor Richard Primack has produced 29 foreign-language editions of popular textbooks with input from co-authors who translate and add local...

Ceos Tend to Overstay Their Welcome, Hurting Firm Performance, New Study Finds
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Ceos Tend to Overstay Their Welcome, Hurting Firm Performance, New Study Finds

The longer CEOs stay in power — and a new study suggests most exceed the optimal tenure length by about three years — the more likely the executives are to limit...

An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'
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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'

Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions.

The Startling Beauty of the Microscopic
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The Startling Beauty of the Microscopic

When Robert Hooke first looked at a piece of cork under a microscope in 1665, he was looking for scientific reasons–but that didn’t keep him from seeing the intrinsic...

Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
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Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks

American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...

Picture of Health: A Selfie That May Save Your Life
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Picture of Health: A Selfie That May Save Your Life

A new smartphone device can take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that can read the subject's cholesterol level in about a minute.

Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots

BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.

Green Innovator
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Green Innovator

University of Delaware Professor Richard Wool has been awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his work developing bio-based materials to...

Virtually Immortal
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Virtually Immortal

Digital preservationists are on a mission to capture the world's threatened masterworks in all their 3-D glory.

Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money
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Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money

Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...

Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines
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Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines

By taking advantage of the unique electronic properties of graphene, researchers believe they could generate a type of electronic surface wave that would allow...

Who Says Girls Can't Code?
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Who Says Girls Can't Code?

Wellesley College students answer the "Hour of Code" call to action by devoting time this week to teaching computer programming to others.
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