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This Year's Ces Anxiety: Ending ­p Like Tv Makers
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This Year's Ces Anxiety: Ending ­p Like Tv Makers

The International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas’s annual gadget cornucopia, kicks off this week.

Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds

The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.

''born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors
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''born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors

A few years ago, when Greg Martin was in his mid 20s and teaching a computer security course for NASA engineers, he stumbled on an arcane bit of information that...

E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships
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E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships

Loc Tran is a big man on campus at San Jose State University in Northern California.

Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching
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Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching

Are you perusing LinkedIn at work more than usual?

Google Lunar Xprize: Astrobotic's Rover Rakes in $750,000
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Google Lunar Xprize: Astrobotic's Rover Rakes in $750,000

It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.

Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles
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Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles

The ​Daily Paywall is a new website that's loaded with tens of thousands of pirated articles from some of the world's top paywalled newspapers, and its proprietor...

Crowdsourcing with Mobile Apps Brings 'big Data' to Psychological Research
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Crowdsourcing with Mobile Apps Brings 'big Data' to Psychological Research

A fast-paced game app where players pretend they are baggage screening officers operating airport X-ray scanners has provided researchers with billions of pieces...

The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
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The Anti-Plagiarism Machine

Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.

Nyc Subways Slowly ­pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology
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Nyc Subways Slowly ­pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology

New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...

Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?
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Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?

When a cyber breach goes down…who you gonna call? Many different U.S. government agencies, it turns out.

Intel Betting on (Customized) Commodity Chips for Cloud Computing
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Intel Betting on (Customized) Commodity Chips for Cloud Computing

Cheap, mass-produced semiconductors have transformed our world, with smartphones, laptops, sensors and tablets, all connected to big cloud computing systems.

The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records
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The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records

Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...

­niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups
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­niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups

Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.

How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer
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How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer

Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.

How Information Moves Between Cultures
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How Information Moves Between Cultures

The strength of connections between languages in a network are better predictors of a language's global influence than either the population or the wealth of...

A Web App That Visualizes Wikipedia as a Starry Galaxy of Articles
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A Web App That Visualizes Wikipedia as a Starry Galaxy of Articles

Useful as it may be, Wikipedia is an eyesore.

The Future of ­.s. Innovation Might Rest on This Obscure Patent Lawsuit
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The Future of ­.s. Innovation Might Rest on This Obscure Patent Lawsuit

Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush....

Material Question
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Material Question

 Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...

When a Chart Is Worth a Thousand Words
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When a Chart Is Worth a Thousand Words

A decade ago, data analysis was a chore. Workers poured figures into Excel and then spent hours searching for patterns.
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