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A Pebble in Apple's Shoe
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A Pebble in Apple's Shoe

I made it a point to visit Eric Migicovsky on September 10, 2014. It was the day after the lavish event announcing the Apple Watch, the long-anticipated wrist computer...

School Computer Coding Bill Passes First Vote in ­tah Senate
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School Computer Coding Bill Passes First Vote in ­tah Senate

The Utah Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would create a computer science initiative requiring a range of computer science instructional resources...

Magic Leap
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Magic Leap

Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.

Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?
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Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?

An MIT team has created a "robot garden" with dozens of fast-changing LED lights and more than 100 crawling, swimming, and blooming origami robots to teach basic...

Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker

Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...

Digital Badges Could Motivate Students, Research Shows
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Digital Badges Could Motivate Students, Research Shows

The blend of digital technology and traditional merit badges would provide an opportunity to both motivate and measure learning, according to new research by...

The Coming Boom In Brain Medicines
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The Coming Boom In Brain Medicines

Tony Coles could have had any job he wanted in the drug industry.

How to Interest Girls in Computer Science? Shift the Stereotypes
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How to Interest Girls in Computer Science? Shift the Stereotypes

A new study identifies a main culprit for the underrepresentation of women in undergraduate computer science and engineering programs: inaccurate stereotypes depicting...

How to Choose the Form of an Infographic: It's All About Context
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How to Choose the Form of an Infographic: It's All About Context

As a graphics designer, I have a love/hate relationship with circles.

Better How-to Videos
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Better How-to Videos

Educational researchers have developed a system that crowdsources the annotation of instructional videos to increase their value. 

Career Award Winner Tackles Structured Indoor Modeling
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Career Award Winner Tackles Structured Indoor Modeling

Yasutaka Furukawa thinks there's a better way to find your way around a large building than with a printed, one-dimensional map. And he's getting a chance to make...

Washington Lawmakers Want Computer Science to Count as Foreign Language
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Washington Lawmakers Want Computer Science to Count as Foreign Language

Two Washington state legislators have recently introduced a bill that would allow computer science class (e.g., programming) to effectively count as a foreign language...

An Incubator For Innovation
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An Incubator For Innovation

To halt climate change, the world desperately needs advances in clean energy.

Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award By Thinking Small
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Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award By Thinking Small

Bioengineer Robert Langer has spent his career looking for the next not-so-big thing.

Smartphone App Tracks Students' Class Attendance Automatically
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Smartphone App Tracks Students' Class Attendance Automatically

A team of Missouri S&T researchers has developed an app that tracks classroom attendance using a smartphone camera.

Bigger Is Not Better When It Comes to Lab Size
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Bigger Is Not Better When It Comes to Lab Size

To publish the most papers, labs should ideally have 10 to 15 members, according to a much-discussed study in PeerJ PrePrints.

Cyber Security Experts Make Virtual Lab Available For Classrooms, Competitions
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Cyber Security Experts Make Virtual Lab Available For Classrooms, Competitions

With NSF support, Iowa State University is making a version of ISEAGE (the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment) software technology available...

British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors
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British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors

The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...

Andreessen Horowitz Taps Into Thriving World of Programmers
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Andreessen Horowitz Taps Into Thriving World of Programmers

With its recent investment in Stack Exchange, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz now counts three significant companies in its portfolio that serve the broad and...

Programming: Pick ­p Python
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Programming: Pick ­p Python

Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.
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