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The Message Voyager 1 Carries For Alien Civilizations
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The Message Voyager 1 Carries For Alien Civilizations

The year was 1977.

Grand Theft Auto 5: Inside the Creative Process with Dan Houser
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Grand Theft Auto 5: Inside the Creative Process with Dan Houser

We're four days away now. After a year of pre-publicity and a five-year wait since GTA IV, the latest instalment in Rockstar's gangland opus is almost upon us.

Managing Multicore Memory
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Managing Multicore Memory

MIT research shows that it may be time to let software, rather than hardware, manage the high-speed on-chip cache memory banks.

Crowdgrader Brings Crowdsourcing to the Task of Grading Homework
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Crowdgrader Brings Crowdsourcing to the Task of Grading Homework

CrowdGrader, a new crowdsourcing tool developed by UC Santa Cruz computer scientists, allows students to submit their homework online and then distributes it anonymously...

Mars Rover Camera Invention Could Help Nasa Robots Explore Solo
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Mars Rover Camera Invention Could Help Nasa Robots Explore Solo

Every second that a NASA rover roams across the surface of Mars is extremely expensive.

Intel's Extensive Makeover
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Intel's Extensive Makeover

While Apple talked about a couple of new products on Tuesday, Intel, with much less fanfare, talked about the transformation of a world, and itself.

A Material's Multiple Personalities
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A Material's Multiple Personalities

Materials, like people, sometimes exhibit "multiple personalities." This unusual behavior has compelled researchers at Argonne National Laboratory to take a closer...

Google and Edx Create a Mooc Site For the Rest of US
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Google and Edx Create a Mooc Site For the Rest of US

Google and edX, a nonprofit joint venture founded by Harvard and MIT, are collaborating to create MOOC.org, a spinoff website in which users can sign up for a massive...

STEM Education Policy Fellowship Announced
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STEM Education Policy Fellowship Announced

The American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, will send science advisors to Washington...

The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at ­niversities. Here's What Students Learn.
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The Nsa Sponsors 'cyber Operations' Training at ­niversities. Here's What Students Learn.

Last week, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh became one of the latest—and most prestigious—schools to partner with the National Security Agency on a program...

Nsa Announces Four New Schools For Cyber Initiative
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Nsa Announces Four New Schools For Cyber Initiative

Four new schools have been selected for the National Security Agency's National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, which was designed to...

Apple's New Iphone 'touch Id' Makes Fingerprint Scans Easy, But Don't Ditch Passcodes Yet
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Apple's New Iphone 'touch Id' Makes Fingerprint Scans Easy, But Don't Ditch Passcodes Yet

The latest iPhone has arrived, and along with it what may be the slickest integration of biometric security yet: A fingerprint scanner built seamlessly into the...

With Horses and Ipads, Autistic Children Learn to Communicate
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With Horses and Ipads, Autistic Children Learn to Communicate

Equine therapy coupled with iPads has helped children with autism make significant breakthroughs in communication.

Detecting Program-Tampering in the Cloud
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Detecting Program-Tampering in the Cloud

A new version of 'zero-knowledge proofs' allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.

Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions

The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...

The New Era of Toy Robotics
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The New Era of Toy Robotics

In olden times, the most an ambitious young tinkerer could hope for in a toy was to be able to stick one funny-shaped piece onto another. Kids built airplanes with...

Fed Says Tech Demand Outstripping Supply in Boston, San Francisco
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Fed Says Tech Demand Outstripping Supply in Boston, San Francisco

The U.S. Federal Reserve's recently released Beige Book states that demand for certain types of technology skills is outpacing supply in some markets, particularly...

MOOC Spells New Skills for Job Seekers, Can Fill Gaps
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MOOC Spells New Skills for Job Seekers, Can Fill Gaps

Companies struggling to fill high-tech jobs are considering expanding their applicant pool by tapping people trained in massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Should Students ­se a Laptop in Class?
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Should Students ­se a Laptop in Class?

There's a widely shared image on the Internet of a teacher's note that says: "Dear students, I know when you're texting in class. Seriously, no one just looks down...

Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows
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Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows

The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...
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