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Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan
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Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan

In policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed "wicked."

Tiny Compound Semiconductor Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance
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Tiny Compound Semiconductor Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance

MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.

Michael Bloomberg Wants to Do Something Cool with New York's Phone Booths
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Michael Bloomberg Wants to Do Something Cool with New York's Phone Booths

Just 15 years ago, New York City had 35,000 phone booths. Thanks to cell phones it now has just 11,000, most of which serve little purpose for anyone but Clark...

Lenovo's Quest to Be Cool
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Lenovo's Quest to Be Cool

China's Lenovo is on a roll. It has just been named the world's number one PC seller, and it has rapidly won the number two spot in mobile phones in its home market...

The Next Big Os War Is in Your Dashboard
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The Next Big Os War Is in Your Dashboard

Competition in automotive technology has long been about who's got the most horsepower, the best towing capacity or the fastest acceleration. These days, though...

Texas Teen Wins $100,000 National Science Prize
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Texas Teen Wins $100,000 National Science Prize

A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for a developing a computer algorithm that helps robots navigate around obstacles, an algorithm...

The ­ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go
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The ­ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go

You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.

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I.b.m. and Ohio State ­niversity to Open Center For Big Data

There is plenty of debate about just how much Big Data analytics can help businesses make smarter decisions to increase sales and cut costs. Yet there seems to...

How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World
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How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World

Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...

Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own
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Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own

It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.

Apple's Cue Seeks Overhaul of Maps Amid Duel With Google
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Apple's Cue Seeks Overhaul of Maps Amid Duel With Google

Apple Inc.'s Eddy Cue, who took charge of map software last month, is racing to turn around the troubled service, firing a senior manager, and urging partners to...

Desperate, Hockey Fans Root For Virtual Team
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Desperate, Hockey Fans Root For Virtual Team

Pat Hickey, who covered his first Montreal Canadiens game in 1968 for the now-defunct Montreal Star, and who has chronicled the team's exploits over the past 22...

The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Computing
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The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Computing

In most of corporate America, you write the press release when your creation is finished. But at Amazon, you write it before you've even begun.

Cleanroom Invented By Sandia Physicist Still ­sed 50 Years Later
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Cleanroom Invented By Sandia Physicist Still ­sed 50 Years Later

When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists thought it was too good to be true. But within a few years...

College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
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College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All

Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...

Why Better Traffic Data Means More Than Just a Faster Commute
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Why Better Traffic Data Means More Than Just a Faster Commute

You might never have heard of Inrix, but there's a good chance it’s already helped you out—or vice versa.

Company Plans 'revolutionary' Eavesdropping Technology to Help Governments Monitor Internet Chats
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Company Plans 'revolutionary' Eavesdropping Technology to Help Governments Monitor Internet Chats

According to law enforcement agencies, the rising popularity of Internet chat services like Skype has made it difficult to eavesdrop on suspects' communications...

Oak Ridge Claims No. 1 Position on Latest TOP500 List with Titan
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Oak Ridge Claims No. 1 Position on Latest TOP500 List with Titan

Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500...

With Millions Paid in Hacker Bug Bounties, Is the Internet Any Safer?
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With Millions Paid in Hacker Bug Bounties, Is the Internet Any Safer?

The night before the end of Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference this year in Vancouver, a tall teen dressed in khaki shorts, tube socks...

How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley
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How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley

When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...
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