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Rethinking How We Watch Tv
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Rethinking How We Watch Tv

To understand how much television could soon change, it helps to visit an Intel Corp. division here that runs like a startup.

How a Satellite Called Syncom Changed the World
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How a Satellite Called Syncom Changed the World

In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union's newly launched Sputnik satellite would regularly streak across the Los Angeles sky, a bright dot in the black night.

Make It Yourself With a 3-D Printer and Save – a Lot
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Make It Yourself With a 3-D Printer and Save – a Lot

A new study shows that a household could save hundreds if not thousands of dollars by making common items on its own with a 3-D printer.

Your Body Is the Computer
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Your Body Is the Computer

The last few years have presented an unprecedented shift in the computing world as PCs are being replaced with mobile devices. But now that a large portion of the...

Professors Help Practitioners Decipher 'Big Data'
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Professors Help Practitioners Decipher 'Big Data'

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has new ways to help marketing practitioners find the narrative in 'Big Data' numbers and articulate their...

Are You Hiring the Wrong Person?
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Are You Hiring the Wrong Person?

A new study finds that hiring managers often make poor choices because they systematically rely strictly on generic performance measures rather than consider...

Software Experts Attack Cars, to Release Code As Hackers Meet
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Software Experts Attack Cars, to Release Code As Hackers Meet

Car hacking is not a new field, but its secrets have long been closely guarded.

Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math
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Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math

Are you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?

Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists
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Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists

Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...

How Samsung Is Beating Apple in China
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How Samsung Is Beating Apple in China

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of...

San Jose Giants Harness Mobile App to Help with Digital Future
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San Jose Giants Harness Mobile App to Help with Digital Future

On game days, Ben Taylor has one of the most nerve-racking jobs on the San Jose Giants.

Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain
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Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain

The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...

The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent
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The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent

Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University questions the claim that competition from high-tech guest workers in the United States is keeping domestic workers' wages low...

New Ways to Teach Math and Engage More Students in STEM Studies
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New Ways to Teach Math and Engage More Students in STEM Studies

Experts will discuss new research that challenges traditional approaches and ideas in presentations at the American Psychological Association's 121st Annual Convention...

Mining Silicon Valley's Culture
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Mining Silicon Valley's Culture

In roughly the past two years, Target Corp., General Electric Co., Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and other big companies have opened outposts in or near Silicon...

Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate
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Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate

Although certain kinds of engineers are in short supply in the United States, plenty of potential candidates exist for thousands of positions for which companies...

The Mooc That Roared
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The Mooc That Roared

Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It's offering a new master's degree in computer...

Research Update: Genome Editing Becomes More Accurate
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Research Update: Genome Editing Becomes More Accurate

Earlier this year, MIT researchers developed a way to easily and efficiently edit the genomes of living cells. Now, the researchers have discovered key factors...

Hey Kids! Learn to Be "cyber Smart” from the Nsa's Youth Page!
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Hey Kids! Learn to Be "cyber Smart” from the Nsa's Youth Page!

The National Security Agency wants your kids to know that it's cool to be "cyber smart."

E-Book Vs. P-Book
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E-Book Vs. P-Book

When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning...
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