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Immigrants Have a Growing Role in the ­.S. Sci-Tech Workforce
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Immigrants Have a Growing Role in the ­.S. Sci-Tech Workforce

Immigrants accounted for 18 percent of U.S. scientists and engineers in 2013, up from 16 percent in 2003, according to a U.S. National Science Foundation report...

Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself

Margaret Hamilton wasn't supposed to invent the modern concept of software and land men on the moon.

What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media
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What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media

Let's face it: Corporate America's social presence could use a celebrity makeover.

Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits
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Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits

At a demo day in San Francisco on Wednesday, Joyce Kim's presentation of her financial tech startup sounded a lot like a tech startup pitching venture capitalists...

Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
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Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score

Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.

Driverless Cars? Not So Fast
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Driverless Cars? Not So Fast

David Mindell, an MIT professor and author, argues that self-driving cars could be achieved without full autonomy.

Computer Science Now Top Major For Women at Stanford ­niversity
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Computer Science Now Top Major For Women at Stanford ­niversity

 Computer science has for the first time become the most popular major for female students at Stanford University, a hopeful sign for those trying to build up the...

New California Law Extends Privacy Rights to Electronic Data
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New California Law Extends Privacy Rights to Electronic Data

California now requires police to get a court order before they can search messages, photos and other digital data stored on phones or company servers in the nation's...

Pilots Can't Stop Cockpit Video Forever
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Pilots Can't Stop Cockpit Video Forever

It was after 11 p.m. on March 30, 2013, when the Alaska Department of Public Safety helicopter lifted off near Talkeetna, north of Anchorage, after rescuing a stranded...

Smaller U.s. Businesses Fear Freeze from Eu Privacy Ruling
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Smaller U.s. Businesses Fear Freeze from Eu Privacy Ruling

U.S. businesses from online coupon company RetailMeNot Inc to security software company Symantec Corp said a European change to rules governing transatlantic personal...

Start-­ps Picked By Disney Hint at Future Tech For Children
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Start-­ps Picked By Disney Hint at Future Tech For Children

How will Disney use technology to captivate the children of the future?

 NSF Awards $74.5 Million to Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research
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NSF Awards $74.5 Million to Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $74.5 million in research grants related to securing cyberspace. The funding will support 257 new projects involving...

New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend

Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.

Tech Companies Can Blame Snowden For Data Privacy Decision
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Tech Companies Can Blame Snowden For Data Privacy Decision

A ruling the Europe Union’s highest court yesterday may create enormous headaches for US tech companies like Google and Facebook.

Can the Pentagon Do Business with Silicon Valley?
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Can the Pentagon Do Business with Silicon Valley?

"Want to see the bin Laden compound?"

Doe Creates Center For Computational Materials at Argonne
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Doe Creates Center For Computational Materials at Argonne

The U.S. Department of Energy will provide $12 million over four years to establish a computational materials center at Argonne National Laboratory that will develop...

Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.

At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.

Scouring the Web to Make New Words 'lookupable'
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Scouring the Web to Make New Words 'lookupable'

A couple of weeks ago, two of my New York Times colleagues chronicled digital culture trends that are so newish and niche-y that conventional English dictionaries...

The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong

Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...

Morehouse Produced 13 Percent of African-American Ph.d. Male Computer Science Students
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Morehouse Produced 13 Percent of African-American Ph.d. Male Computer Science Students

Morehouse College produced 12 of the 92 male African-American computer science Ph.D. students in the United States.
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