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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.

Darpa Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities
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Darpa Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the avant-garde research and development arm of the Department of Defense—perhaps best known for its central...

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...

Idc Predictions 2013
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Idc Predictions 2013

The ICT industry is in the midst of a once every 20-25 years shift to a new technology platform for growth and innovation. We call it the 3rd Platform, built on...

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.

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...

An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business
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An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business

Once upon a time, Amazon was a dot-com-era technology company best known for selling books.

How a Soccer Robot Led to a Mathematician's Non-Reversing Mirror
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How a Soccer Robot Led to a Mathematician's Non-Reversing Mirror

When you look in a mirror, you see an image of yourself in reverse. But one odd mirror invented by mathematics professor R. Andrew Hicks at Drexel University shows...

Byod: Embracing Technology in K-12 Schools
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Byod: Embracing Technology in K-12 Schools

A growing number of schools are joining the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement to better integrate students' smartphones, tablets, and laptops into their classrooms...

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...

The Workday After Tomorrow
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The Workday After Tomorrow

What happens when business as usual is impossible?

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...

Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
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Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race

Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...

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Can Apple Still Innovate on a Shoestring?

In 1998, Steve Jobs told Fortune: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have." He shut down Apple's long-term research lab division to prove...

Ornl Debuts Titan Supercomputer
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Ornl Debuts Titan Supercomputer

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory last month launched the Titan supercomputer, which will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last...
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