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Three Ways to Get More Women Into Tech
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Three Ways to Get More Women Into Tech

The percentage of women graduating with computer-science and engineering degrees is still the lowest of all the STEM fields. What can colleges do to support and...

How Student Concentrations Are Changing at Harvard
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How Student Concentrations Are Changing at Harvard

An analysis of nine years of data from Harvard found four major trends on fields of study. 

Members of Congress Want You to Hack the ­S Election Voting System
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Members of Congress Want You to Hack the ­S Election Voting System

This summer, DefCon's "Voting Machine Hacking Village" turned up a host of US election vulnerabilities (PDF). Now, imagine a more mainstream national hacking event...

Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren't)
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Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren't)

The national priority in education can be summed up in a four-letter acronym: STEM.

Good Vibrations: Smart Access to Homes and Cars ­sing Fingers
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Good Vibrations: Smart Access to Homes and Cars ­sing Fingers

Rutgers engineers create a finger vibration-based security system.

Eugenics 2.0: We're at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos By Health, Height, and More
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Eugenics 2.0: We're at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos By Health, Height, and More

Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It's a disease that runs in families, but it has complex causes. More than one gene is involved. And the...

Why Hedge Funds Are Already Experimenting with Quantum Computers
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Why Hedge Funds Are Already Experimenting with Quantum Computers

Hedge funds are flirting with the idea of using quantum computers in an attempt to give their analysis a speed boost.

Real Security Requires Strong Encryption–even If Investigators Get Blocked
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Real Security Requires Strong Encryption–even If Investigators Get Blocked

The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologies for 25 years.

China's Papers Gain Global Credibility
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China's Papers Gain Global Credibility

China's academic science papers have moved into second place for global citations, behind the United States, according to the 2017 edition of Statistical Data of...

California Legislators Make Cybersecurity Education a Top Priority
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California Legislators Make Cybersecurity Education a Top Priority

State of California educators, government, and business representatives are working together to meet demands for cybersecurity workers and create opportunities...

'we Can't Compete': Why ­niversities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists
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'we Can't Compete': Why ­niversities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists

Computer scientists are being lured from academia by a handful of companies whose offers that are hard to turn down.

How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics
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How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics

A new type of smart fabric developed at the University of Washington could pave the way for jackets that store invisible passcodes and open the door to your apartment...

Citation Is Not the Only Impact
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Citation Is Not the Only Impact

What makes good science? And how do Nature's editors select papers to publish?

Sony's Aibo Robotic Dog Is Back, with Some New Tricks
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Sony's Aibo Robotic Dog Is Back, with Some New Tricks

Sony Corp. is bringing back its iconic robotic dog, aibo.

Team Aims to Turn Computer Systems Into Digital Detectives
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Team Aims to Turn Computer Systems Into Digital Detectives

An international team of scientists are developing algorithms to extract the most useful information from multi-modal data in order to teach a computer system to...

Building Tomorrow's Robots
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Building Tomorrow's Robots

When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...

Report Proposes Learning Tech Inequality Solutions
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Report Proposes Learning Tech Inequality Solutions

Free and open technologies do not democratize education, though strategies exist to combat educational inequity and should be replicated, says a new report.

Does Facebook Even Know How to Control Facebook?
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Does Facebook Even Know How to Control Facebook?

Later today, executives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter will go before the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify about the ways that Russian operatives used...

Deleting Disparity in Computer Science
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Deleting Disparity in Computer Science

Mehul Smriti Raje, winner of the 2017 Student of Vision ABIE Award from the Anita Borg Institute, has founded a group that works to attract more women to computer...

Behold, the World's Most Famous teapot
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Behold, the World's Most Famous teapot

Martin Newell was worried about his Ph.D. research as he sat down to tea with his wife one day in 1974.
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