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Can Coding Make the Classroom Better?
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Can Coding Make the Classroom Better?

Diagrams of simple machines—a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever—appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (science, technology, engineering, and...

Two Dozen Disney It Workers Prepare to Sue Over Foreign Replacements
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Two Dozen Disney It Workers Prepare to Sue Over Foreign Replacements

At least 23 former Disney IT workers have filed complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over the loss of their jobs to foreign...

It Takes A Network
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It Takes A Network

MIT's Rising Stars workshop helps female electrical engineering and computer science graduate students and postdocs build a professional network with a focus on...

Crowdsourcing Competition Examines How Cancers Originate And Evolve
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Crowdsourcing Competition Examines How Cancers Originate And Evolve

An international consortium has created a public challenge to optimize the discovery of genetically distinct groups of cells within cancers that could respond differently...

Google's Robot Group Struggles to Fill Leadership Vacuum as It Shoots For Ambitious Launch Before 2020
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Google's Robot Group Struggles to Fill Leadership Vacuum as It Shoots For Ambitious Launch Before 2020

Nearly two years ago, Google announced a new robotics division that had secretly snapped up almost ten companies.

To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies
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To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies

Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.

Astronomers Begin Building Super Telescope to See Dawn of the ­niverse
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Astronomers Begin Building Super Telescope to See Dawn of the ­niverse

The biggest and baddest telescope in the world stands atop a volcanic peak in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.

The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan
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The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan

There is no shortage of cool stuff to see on the Internet, but the Internet itself—the networks and servers and cables tying it all together—is pretty mundane....

The Digital Revolution in Higher Education Has Already Happened. No One Noticed.
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The Digital Revolution in Higher Education Has Already Happened. No One Noticed.

The digital revolution in higher education has happened.

Large Companies Game H-1b Visa Program, and Jobs Leave the ­.s.
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Large Companies Game H-1b Visa Program, and Jobs Leave the ­.s.

Théo Négri, a young software engineer from France, had come up with so many novel ideas at his job at an Internet start-up in San Francisco that the American entrepreneur...

Pinpointing Poverty With Cellphone Data
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Pinpointing Poverty With Cellphone Data

University at Buffalo researchers are studying if mobile phone call data can help combat extreme poverty in Senegal.

Computer Researcher at Sandia Wins IEEE Early Career Award
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Computer Researcher at Sandia Wins IEEE Early Career Award

Sandia Labs researcher Kurt Ferreira, whose research interests include operating systems and massively parallel system run-times, has been selected for the 2015...

National Labs Collaborate on Next-Generation Supercomputer Development
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National Labs Collaborate on Next-Generation Supercomputer Development

Three U.S. national laboratories are working together to solve some of the world's most challenging problems by ensuring that the U.S. scientific community has...

How to Get Students to Stop ­sing Their Cellphones in Class
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How to Get Students to Stop ­sing Their Cellphones in Class

Almost all college students have a cellphone. They use them an average of eight to 10 hours a day and check them an average of every 15 to 20 minutes while they're...

The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly

Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."

Fury and Fear in Ohio as It Jobs Go to India
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Fury and Fear in Ohio as It Jobs Go to India

The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company's Mason, Ohio, offices learned of their fates game-show style.

Relax: You Won't Be Replaced by a Robot
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Relax: You Won't Be Replaced by a Robot

Don't think a robot could take your job?

Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in ­.s.
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in ­.s.

Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...

From Army of One to Band of Tweeters
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From Army of One to Band of Tweeters

It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.

Inside the Economics of Hacking
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Inside the Economics of Hacking

Imagine getting $1 million for finding a security weakness in a mobile operating system.
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