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Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World
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Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World

Whenever an app, a website, or a physical product like a gaming console is exported, it ships with a side of cultural influence.

Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
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Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot

The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer.

Aviation Schools Prepare For Boom in Drone Jobs
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Aviation Schools Prepare For Boom in Drone Jobs

Two student pilots are seated shoulder to shoulder before a bank of video monitors, maneuvering an unmanned aircraft by keyboard and mouse as the drone descends...

Real-Time Virtualization Software to Enable Embedded Systems Integration
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Real-Time Virtualization Software to Enable Embedded Systems Integration

The automobile industry is turning towards virtualization to circumvent the computational clunkiness and inefficiency of consolidating 100 separate, isolated microprocessors...

When Apple and Samsung Fight, the Lawyers Win
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When Apple and Samsung Fight, the Lawyers Win

Pity the lawyers—except for those who practice intellectual property law.

A High Frequency, Low-Power Tunneling Transistor For High Performance Devices at Low Voltage
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A High Frequency, Low-Power Tunneling Transistor For High Performance Devices at Low Voltage

Penn State researchers have proved the feasibility of a new type of transistor that could make possible fast and low-power computing devices for energy constrained...

Forget Hide and Seek: System Allows Through-Wall, 3-D Motion Tracking
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Forget Hide and Seek: System Allows Through-Wall, 3-D Motion Tracking

New technology developed at MIT uses radio signals to track a person's location and movement through walls and obstructions, pinpointing his or her location to...

Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
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Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem

At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.

Is Peer-Review Systemically Misogynist?
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Is Peer-Review Systemically Misogynist?

Women's presence in science is not reflected in peer-review authorship or citations.

5 Tips For Aspiring Silicon Valley Engineers
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5 Tips For Aspiring Silicon Valley Engineers

Great software engineers are hard to find, let alone hire and keep.

Behind Samsung's Push to Rule the World
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Behind Samsung's Push to Rule the World

"It sounded like a toilet."

Leaner Fourier Transforms
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Leaner Fourier Transforms

A new algorithm developed at MIT can separate signals into their individual frequencies using a minimal number of samples.

The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
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The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead

Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. 

Nest Labs Ceo Advice: Startup? More Like Lawyer ­p
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Nest Labs Ceo Advice: Startup? More Like Lawyer ­p

Startups whose products challenge the incumbents need to prepare not just for competition but for dirty tricks.

Pioneering a Path to Electrical Conductivity in 'Tinker Toy' Materials
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Pioneering a Path to Electrical Conductivity in 'Tinker Toy' Materials

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a technique that increases the electrical conductivity of a metal-organic framework by over six orders of...

The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History
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The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History

In 1984, Mike Lazaridis, an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, and Douglas Fregin, an engineering student at the University of Windsor, founded...

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Active Learning Model for Computer Predictions

University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Rob Nowak has been exploring an active learning model of computing, in which the machine receives all of the data up front...

Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
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Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help

NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.

Confirming the Mooc Myth
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Confirming the Mooc Myth

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are neither transforming education nor yielding large profits, but more time is needed to experiment with various applications...

World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games
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World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting...
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