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Nsa Job Post For 'civil Liberties & Privacy Officer' Goes Live
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Nsa Job Post For 'civil Liberties & Privacy Officer' Goes Live

The U.S. National Security Agency has posted an ad for a "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer," offering critics of the NSA a well-nigh irresistible chance to play...

Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code
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Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code

J. Paul Gibson began to teach programming classes for teens out of frustration.

Ctrl-Alt-Delete Defenders Tell Bill Gates It Wasn't A Mistake
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Ctrl-Alt-Delete Defenders Tell Bill Gates It Wasn't A Mistake

The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons...

Cache and Not Carry: Next Mars Rover to Collect Samples For Return to Earth—someday
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Cache and Not Carry: Next Mars Rover to Collect Samples For Return to Earth—someday

Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.

Better Technology = Better Communication? Not Necessarily
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Better Technology = Better Communication? Not Necessarily

Author and communication consultant Geoffrey Tumlin shares five unrealistic expectations that have emerged during the digital communication revolution and outlines...

Professor Develops 'brain' For Robots
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Professor Develops 'brain' For Robots

A Missouri S&T researcher has developed a new feedback system to remotely control mobile robots. The research could eventually lead to a robot that can learn or...

Controversial Pentagon Dna Analysis Contest Names Champion
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Controversial Pentagon Dna Analysis Contest Names Champion

A DNA analysis challenge posed by the U.S. Department of Defense proved more difficult than many contestants expected, but a winner has emerged.

Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data
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Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data

The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only U.S...

Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg ­sing Thought Alone
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Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg ­sing Thought Alone

A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...

Turning Plastic Bags Into High-Tech Materials
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Turning Plastic Bags Into High-Tech Materials

University of Adelaide researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial.

Rising to the STEM Challenge
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Rising to the STEM Challenge

As many as 3 million jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics could go unfilled in the United States by 2018 because there are not enough highly...

Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
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Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone interstellar.

Large Patent Holders Hate This Reform Proposal. That’s a Good Sign.
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Large Patent Holders Hate This Reform Proposal. That’s a Good Sign.

The fight over patent reform has turned into a two-front war.

The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Blackberry
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The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Blackberry

Beleaguered gadgetmaker BlackBerry said on Monday that it's signed a tentative agreement to be purchased by a group led by Canadian holding company Fairfax Financial...

In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches

The age of wearable computing is upon us.

Facebook and Twitter Too Late For China's Internet
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Facebook and Twitter Too Late For China's Internet

Facebook Inc and Twitter face a daunting task in China, if access to their social networks is unblocked, as they would be up against deeply entrenched domestic...

Internet Pioneer Realnetworks Seeks Revival
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Internet Pioneer Realnetworks Seeks Revival

When a ground-breaking product called RealPlayer was released in its earliest form in 1995, Steven P. Jobs had yet to return to Apple, Google's future foundersjust...

Many Questions For Michael Dell on Going Private, and What's Next
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Many Questions For Michael Dell on Going Private, and What's Next

Michael Dell is feeling aggressive.

Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics
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Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics

Catherine Havasi used more than a decade of artificial intelligence research as the technological foundation for a startup whose commercial software is helping...

MIT Computer Scientist Dina Katabi Wins Macarthur 'genius Grant'
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MIT Computer Scientist Dina Katabi Wins Macarthur 'genius Grant'

MIT computer scientist Dina Katabi is among 24 recipients of a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes referred to as a "genius grant."
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