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The Ipad Has Arrived to (someday) Change Baseball Forever
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The Ipad Has Arrived to (someday) Change Baseball Forever

Minutes before the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics trot onto the field during an overcast May afternoon, A's bullpen coach Scott Emerson strides along the...

Hackers Find Dozens of Ways into Pentagon Servers—With Permission
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Hackers Find Dozens of Ways into Pentagon Servers—With Permission

The Pentagon asked hackers to take a crack at its servers, and in response 1,400 hackers found 90 ways in, according to a tweet from the CEO of HackerOne on Friday...

Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers
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Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers

About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.

China's Virtual Reality Market Will Be Worth $8.5 Billion and Everyone Wants a Piece
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China's Virtual Reality Market Will Be Worth $8.5 Billion and Everyone Wants a Piece

Hip-hop dancers, military marchers and daredevils in winged suits are bringing China's Internet titans into the world of virtual reality.

How to Hack the Hackers: The Human Side of Cyber Crime
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How to Hack the Hackers: The Human Side of Cyber Crime

Say what you will about cybercriminals, says Angela Sasse, "their victims rave about the customer service".

Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence

In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...

After Three Weeks in China, It's Clear Beijing Is Silicon Valley's Only True Competitor
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After Three Weeks in China, It's Clear Beijing Is Silicon Valley's Only True Competitor

After selling my startup, Shopkick, to SK Planet in 2014, and handing over my CEO role a year later, I packed up my 1- and 3-year-old sons and my wife Angel, and...

Gene Variants Linked to Success at School Prove Divisive
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Gene Variants Linked to Success at School Prove Divisive

The largest-ever genetics study in the social sciences has turned up dozens of DNA markers that are linked to the number of years of formal education an individual...

Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead
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Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead

Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for a world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans.

What Are Chatbots? And Why Does Big Tech Love Them So Much?
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What Are Chatbots? And Why Does Big Tech Love Them So Much?

Chatbots! They're all the rage: Kik has them, Facebook wants them, and it seems like every computer coder wants to make them. But what are they? And why is every...

3-D Printing 101
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3-D Printing 101

It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.

Like It or Not, Facebook Has the Right to Choose Your News
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Like It or Not, Facebook Has the Right to Choose Your News

There's an old saying that you shouldn't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

Surprise! People Will Actually Read Long News Stories on Their Smartphones.
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Surprise! People Will Actually Read Long News Stories on Their Smartphones.

Those fretting over the effect that small screens have on big news stories may be able to breathe a little easier.

Want to Raise a Tech Entrepreneur? Give Your Child These Chores.
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Want to Raise a Tech Entrepreneur? Give Your Child These Chores.

Many families introduce their children to the world of work before they bring up the idea of entrepreneurship. But you don't need to limit your children’s earning...

The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why
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The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why

This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...

Trump's Big Win Is a Giant Setback For Data Crunchers
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Trump's Big Win Is a Giant Setback For Data Crunchers

Donald Trump has proven a lot of people wrong, and not just because a year ago today none of us—perhaps not even Trump—would have imagined in our wildest fever...

­S and China Eye ­p European Gravitational-Wave Mission
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­S and China Eye ­p European Gravitational-Wave Mission

In the wake of the historic detection of gravitational waves by a terrestrial US experiment, a space-borne European effort is drawing interest from a range of parties...

Left Behind in the Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles to Innovate
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Left Behind in the Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles to Innovate

Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...

Uk Graphene Inquiry Reveals Commercial Struggles
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Uk Graphene Inquiry Reveals Commercial Struggles

The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...

Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100

Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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