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Five Ways to Make Sure We Never Lose a Plane Again
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Five Ways to Make Sure We Never Lose a Plane Again

For the past few weeks the world's attention has been focussed on the lost Malaysia Airlines plane and its 239 passengers and crew that has apparently crashed in...

The Virtual Genius of Oculus Rift
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The Virtual Genius of Oculus Rift

To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.

Building the Google of Blood, One Tube at a Time
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Building the Google of Blood, One Tube at a Time

The first shipment arrives at 4 A.M.

College Basketball Data Aplenty for Those Who Can Afford It
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College Basketball Data Aplenty for Those Who Can Afford It

When Butler fell a precious few inches short of winning a national championship in 2010, its players took the court during that season believing they were the most...

Bioengineer Designs Diagnostic Microscope Costing Less Than $1
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Bioengineer Designs Diagnostic Microscope Costing Less Than $1

It's an invention that would make TV's secret agent MacGyver proud: a fully functional microscope that can be assembled from folded paper and a tiny bead of glass...

Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets
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Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets

A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars.

Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost ­.s. Tech Companies
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Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost ­.s. Tech Companies

Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.

Bot & Dolly and the Rise of Creative Robots
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Bot & Dolly and the Rise of Creative Robots

Behind a small cafe in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood stands an unmarked warehouse where the future of human-machine interaction is taking shape.

How to Get Into the Games Industry–An Insiders' Guide
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How to Get Into the Games Industry–An Insiders' Guide

At this year's Bafta video game awards, one of the most telling moments was when Dr Who producer Steven Moffat took to the stage and declared "[Games] are going...

Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock
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Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock

Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...

The Cleveland Cavaliers' New 3-D Floor Projection System Is Astonishing
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The Cleveland Cavaliers' New 3-D Floor Projection System Is Astonishing

The Cleveland Cavaliers are having a rocky season—currently, they're on the outside looking in at an Eastern Conference playoff berth.

With Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, a Virtual Battleground May Finally Be Here
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With Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, a Virtual Battleground May Finally Be Here

Virtual reality has never quite materialized for most consumers.

Tiny Transistors For Extreme Environs
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Tiny Transistors For Extreme Environs

University of Utah electrical engineers fabricated smaller plasma transistors that can withstand the high temperatures and ionizing radiation found in a nuclear...

Three Questions For Leslie Lamport, Winner of Computing's Top Prize
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Three Questions For Leslie Lamport, Winner of Computing's Top Prize

This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...

Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow
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Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow

We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.

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Why Google Doesn't Have a Research Lab

Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...

The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot

Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.

­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
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­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost

The uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far...

Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand

Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.

All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest

When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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