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Monkey Math: Baboons Show An Ability To ­nderstand Numbers
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Monkey Math: Baboons Show An Ability To ­nderstand Numbers

A new study at the University of Rochester shows that olive baboons can understand numbers and discriminate between different quantities as accurately as a human...

Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data
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Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data

Forget zombies. The data crunchers are invading Hollywood.

How Facebook Designs the 'perfect Empty Vessel' For Your Mind
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How Facebook Designs the 'perfect Empty Vessel' For Your Mind

One day in March, I was sitting across from Facebook's design director, Kate Aronowitz, at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park when she told me, "It takes a lot of work...

Author Sees History of the Internet in Cultural, Political Light
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Author Sees History of the Internet in Cultural, Political Light

The Internet has been understudied as a political and cultural formation, according to Stephanie Ricker Schulte, assistant professor at the University of Arkansas...

New Research Could Let Vehicles, Robots Collaborate With Humans
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New Research Could Let Vehicles, Robots Collaborate With Humans

Vehicles, robots, and other autonomous devices could soon collaborate with humans in ways that analyze their needs and determine the best way to achieve their goals...

New Chief at Intel Aims to Expand Chip Making
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New Chief at Intel Aims to Expand Chip Making

Brian M. Krzanich, who on Thursday was named Intel's next chief executive, knows he faces a hefty challenge when he takes over the world's biggest maker of semiconductors...

How One College Is Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap
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How One College Is Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap

There are still relatively few women in tech. Maria Klawe wants to change that. As president of Harvey Mudd College, a science and engineering school in Southern...

High-Tech Camera Acts Like a Bug's Eye
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High-Tech Camera Acts Like a Bug's Eye

The next generation of digital cameras could show us how bugs see the world.

Immigration Reform: Silicon Valley Hiring Practices Threatened
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Immigration Reform: Silicon Valley Hiring Practices Threatened

As Congress tries to tackle the many sides of immigration reform, one of Silicon Valley's most contentious debates is getting renewed focus: Should high-tech companies...

Jony Ive, Ios 7, and What Apple Learned from Myspace
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Jony Ive, Ios 7, and What Apple Learned from Myspace

While we don't know when iOS 7 will make its debut, here's what we do know: it will be the biggest reinvention of Apple's flagship OS in years—perhaps ever.

How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers
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How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers

When the email came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt...

Learning Software Development — By Developing Software
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Learning Software Development — By Developing Software

To simulate real-world software development, MIT is offering a new course that involves students in large, ongoing, open source software development projects with...

Want to Slow Mental Decline? Play a Video Game
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Want to Slow Mental Decline? Play a Video Game

University of Iowa researchers say playing video games that challenge mental processing speed and skills can prevent mental decline by as many as seven years

Congress Tries to Reset Science Grants, Wants Every One to Be 'groundbreaking'
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Congress Tries to Reset Science Grants, Wants Every One to Be 'groundbreaking'

Due to Congressional rules, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology had to choose new leadership this year.

Consortium Competes For ­nmanned Aircraft Test Center
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Consortium Competes For ­nmanned Aircraft Test Center

A consortium of state-based organizations will soon submit a proposal to site an unmanned aircraft system research and testing facility in central Washington.

The Company That's Buying ­p All the Key Pieces of the Online-News Ecosystem
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The Company That's Buying ­p All the Key Pieces of the Online-News Ecosystem

In the past couple years, an ecology of sorts has come into being among online news sites.

Scientists Set a New Simulation Speed Record on the Sequoia Supercomputer
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Scientists Set a New Simulation Speed Record on the Sequoia Supercomputer

Computer scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have set a high performance computing speed record that opens...

Superlattice Structure May Improve Fuel Cells
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Superlattice Structure May Improve Fuel Cells

'Superlattice' structure could give a huge boost to oxygen reaction in fuel cells, increasing their power potential.

The Meaning of (making) Life
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The Meaning of (making) Life

Christina Agapakis is a rising star among the new generation of biology researchers. Trained in the science of custom-building organisms known as synthetic biology...

Nate Silver: What Big Data Can't Predict
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Nate Silver: What Big Data Can't Predict

Statistician Nate Silver isn't famous because he's a mathematical genius. (Although, he is.)
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