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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'
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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'

Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions.

Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
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Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks

American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...

Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots

BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.

Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money
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Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money

Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...

Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World
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Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World

Whenever an app, a website, or a physical product like a gaming console is exported, it ships with a side of cultural influence.

Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
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Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot

The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer.

Aviation Schools Prepare For Boom in Drone Jobs
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Aviation Schools Prepare For Boom in Drone Jobs

Two student pilots are seated shoulder to shoulder before a bank of video monitors, maneuvering an unmanned aircraft by keyboard and mouse as the drone descends...

Real-Time Virtualization Software to Enable Embedded Systems Integration
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Real-Time Virtualization Software to Enable Embedded Systems Integration

The automobile industry is turning towards virtualization to circumvent the computational clunkiness and inefficiency of consolidating 100 separate, isolated microprocessors...

A High Frequency, Low-Power Tunneling Transistor For High Performance Devices at Low Voltage
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A High Frequency, Low-Power Tunneling Transistor For High Performance Devices at Low Voltage

Penn State researchers have proved the feasibility of a new type of transistor that could make possible fast and low-power computing devices for energy constrained...

Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
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Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem

At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.

Behind Samsung's Push to Rule the World
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Behind Samsung's Push to Rule the World

"It sounded like a toilet."

The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
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The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead

Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. 

The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History
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The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History

In 1984, Mike Lazaridis, an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, and Douglas Fregin, an engineering student at the University of Windsor, founded...

Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
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Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help

NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.

Graphene: Growing Giants
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Graphene: Growing Giants

A research team at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology may help bring graphene's promise closer to reality.

Saving the Net from the Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Speaks ­p
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Saving the Net from the Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Speaks ­p

Big Brother may be watching you. But Glenn Greenwald is watching Big Brother.

Spectroscopic Technique Could Lead to Better Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Spectroscopic Technique Could Lead to Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

A new technique developed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source could help scientists better understand and improve the materials required for high-performance...

Shazam! How the Music Industry Hears What You (will) Love
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Shazam! How the Music Industry Hears What You (will) Love

At some point in 2014, your friends are totally going to be into this Dutch DJ named Martin Garrix.

Google Puts Money on Robots, ­sing the Man Behind Android
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Google Puts Money on Robots, ­sing the Man Behind Android

In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.

Is the Future of the Internet in Iceland?
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Is the Future of the Internet in Iceland?

When you clicked on the link to read this article, your computer, tablet or phone sent a request that traveled hundreds or perhaps thousands of miles at the speed...
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