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A New and Stunning Way to See the Whole Earth
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A New and Stunning Way to See the Whole Earth

The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 sits 22,000 miles from Earth in orbit. On August 5, 2015, it peered down at the half of Earth that it can see, a hemisphere...

Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets For 215 Years
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Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets For 215 Years

New Year's Day, 1801, the dawn of the 19th century, was a historic moment for astronomy, and for a space mission called Dawn more than 200 years later.

Tech Salaries Had Biggest Year-Over-Year Increase in 2015
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Tech Salaries Had Biggest Year-Over-Year Increase in 2015

Average technology salaries in the U.S. saw the biggest year-over-year leap ever in 2015, up 7.7 percent to $96,370 annually, according to the annual salary survey...

Realistic Data Needed to Evolve the 21st Century Power Grid
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Realistic Data Needed to Evolve the 21st Century Power Grid

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is helping to create open-access power grid datasets for researchers and industry. 

The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting
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The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting

The Wozniak Lounge, located on the northern side of campus at the University of California, Berkeley, looks like it was decorated by engineers, to the extent that...

Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants
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Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants

The latest standoff between Europe and American tech companies runs through a quiet street just north of the Louvre Museum, past chic cafes and part of the French...

Cyber Security Testbed to Help Protect U.S. Power Grid
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Cyber Security Testbed to Help Protect U.S. Power Grid

Iowa State engineers Doug Jacobson and Manimaran Govindarasu have built the "PowerCyber" testbed to help researchers, industry engineers, and students learn to...

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
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Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief

Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...

Explore Galaxies Far, Far Away at Internet Speeds
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Explore Galaxies Far, Far Away at Internet Speeds

Scientists have expanded the number of images that allow users to take a virtual tour of the universe from the comfort of their own computers. The publicly accessible...

Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future
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Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future

There's a little parlor game that people in Silicon Valley like to play. Let's call it, Who's Losing?

Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign
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Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign

Look—We have no idea how this election will turn out.

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist
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Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist

Sarah Parcak can see looting at ancient sites—from space.

'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists
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'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists

Kaleigh Clary, a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, drove down to offer a day of free work for the American Museum of...

Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
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Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up

A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...

The President Wants Every Student to Learn Computer Science. How Would That Work?
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The President Wants Every Student to Learn Computer Science. How Would That Work?

President Obama used his final State of the Union address Tuesday night to reflect on his legacy. But he also put forth some specific proposals for his remaining...

Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike
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Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike

No matter how much we love our devices, they have more than a few shortcomings.

Autonomous Car Makers Hand Over Data on Glitches and Failures to California Dmv
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Autonomous Car Makers Hand Over Data on Glitches and Failures to California Dmv

If you want to build a self-driving car and test it on public roads in California, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles says that every year you have to submit...

In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind

An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...

Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA

Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...
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