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'war on Talent' Continues For Engineers in Europe
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'war on Talent' Continues For Engineers in Europe

A low graduation rate and aging workforce are causing a "severe" shortage of technical professionals throughout Europe.

Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning
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Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning

Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.

Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside
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Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside

In a significant changing of the guard, Google said Wednesday that Android chief Andy Rubin, who built the company's phenomenally successful mobile software business...

High-Tech Designs Vie to Replace Nyc's Payphones
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High-Tech Designs Vie to Replace Nyc's Payphones


Netflix Offers $100,000 in Prizes to Advance Cloud Computing
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Netflix Offers $100,000 in Prizes to Advance Cloud Computing

Netflix Inc. has announced the Netflix Cloud Prize, a competition that will award $100,000 in prize money to developers challenged to make cloud computing better...

Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border
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Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border

From a distance, it looked like Wyatt Nease was using a handset to operate a remote control car.

Controlling Your Computer With a Wave of Your Hand
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Controlling Your Computer With a Wave of Your Hand

If you've had wrist and shoulder pain from clicking a mouse, relief may be in sight.

­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)
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­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)

Alternate-reality games are no longer just for geeks and corporations that want to sell you stuff.

Computer Science Enrollments Soared Last Year, Rising 30%
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Computer Science Enrollments Soared Last Year, Rising 30%

The number of new undergraduate computing majors in U.S. computer science departments increased more than 29 percent in 2012, marking the fifth straight year of...

Which Tech Degrees Pay the Most From Day One?
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Which Tech Degrees Pay the Most From Day One?

Asked about industry demand for their graduates, colleges and professors from various technology disciplines said that more job opportunities and higher starting...

A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
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A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists

During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos.

Pushing X-Rays to the Edge to Draw the Nanoworld Into Focus
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Pushing X-Rays to the Edge to Draw the Nanoworld Into Focus

A new x-ray imaging technique yields unprecedented measurements of nanoscale structures ranging from superconductors to solar cells.

Space Based Relay Study
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Space Based Relay Study

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Exploration and Space Communications Division, is leading a study on behalf of the Space Communications and Navigation Program...

Can Your Boss Read Your Email?
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Can Your Boss Read Your Email?

Harvard faculty members responded with shock after the Boston Globe revealed that theuniversity’s administration had searched 16 faculty deans’ email accounts to...

On Facebook, App Makers Face a Treacherous Path
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On Facebook, App Makers Face a Treacherous Path

Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as Southern California's skies.

Making Cloud Computing More Efficient
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Making Cloud Computing More Efficient

For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance.

Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats
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Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats

It remains the dream of military imagery analysts who stare at surveillance footage all day: sensors and cameras that alert their human masters to looming threats...

Working From Home: The End Of Productivity Or The Future Of Work?
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Working From Home: The End Of Productivity Or The Future Of Work?

Yahoo's decision to ban telecommuting for its workers as of June generated controversy in the technology sector, where companies continue to debate whether working...

Researchers Developing 3-D Printer to Create Human Organs
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Researchers Developing 3-D Printer to Create Human Organs

University of Iowa engineers are working on 3-D printing technology with a long-term goal of printing a human pancreas.

Why Private Companies Won't Make ­p For Cuts in Government Science Funding
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Why Private Companies Won't Make ­p For Cuts in Government Science Funding

The budget cuts that took effect last week could wipe out as much as $54 billion in federal funding of science, research, and innovation over the next five years...
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