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The Secret to Creating Cell Phones For Seniors
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The Secret to Creating Cell Phones For Seniors

Allen Calvin earned a doctorate in experimental psychology, was a consulting professor at Stanford University, and is currently the president of Palo Alto University...

Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving
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Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving

While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...

Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac

Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...

Material Challenges Face Designers of Future Computer Chips
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Material Challenges Face Designers of Future Computer Chips

To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom...

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The 10 Silicon Valley Companies You Wish You Worked for (or Started)

The history of Silicon Valley is the history of digital technology. To become a part of that history, do you go to work for one of the giants—Apple, Google, Intel...

DARPA Throws Down Gauntlet to Human-Style Robots
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DARPA Throws Down Gauntlet to Human-Style Robots

The DARPA Robotics Challenge, one of the most rigorous tests of robotic ability ever conceived, kicked off last week. The contest sets teams of engineers from around...

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Apple R&D Spending Up Nearly 40 Percent in 2012

Apple increased the amount it spent on research and development during 2012, though it remained a fraction of its overall spending.

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The 10 San Francisco Tech Companies You Wish You Worked For

As a veteran Silicon Valley investor on the faculty of Stanford business school, Andy Rachleff spends much of his time counseling young tech workers on how to manage...

5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab
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5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab

You probably expect all the latest and greatest high-tech gear to be out in force at the MIT Media Lab innovation complex. And you’d be right. Holograms? Check....

Robots in the Home: Will Older Adults Roll Out the Welcome Mat?
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Robots in the Home: Will Older Adults Roll Out the Welcome Mat?

Robots have the potential to help older adults with daily activities that can become more challenging with age. But are people willing to use and accept the new...

Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2013
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Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2013

On Monday, the research firm laid out "10 critical tech trends for the next five years." Tuesday, it took a look at a little closer in, providing a list of the...

In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?
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In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?

Guitar teacher Erich Andreas works from a basement studio in Nashville, Tenn. His classroom, though, is the world itself.

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The Tech Job Market Keeps Heating ­p, But Not for Everybody

At first glance, you might think that anyone with up-to-date IT skills and a few years of work experience has it made in the shade.

Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy
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Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy

If companies founded by Stanford graduates formed an independent nation, it would be the 10th largest economy in the world, according to a new study by two Stanford...

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Nasa Selects Early-Stage Innovation Proposals From 10 ­niversities

NASA has selected 10 university-led proposals for study of innovative, early-stage space technologies designed to improve shielding from space radiation, spacecraft...

In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm
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In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm

A Des Moines television station has turned off the lights on the city's Weather Beacon, igniting a tempest among residents who were raised to look downtown for...

Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's Controversial Mr. Windows 8
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Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's Controversial Mr. Windows 8

Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...

At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
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At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years

Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.

Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers
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Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers

The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.

Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?
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Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?

Sodium could be an effective, inexpensive, and virtually inexhaustible substitute for lithium in rechargeable batteries, but it has a drawback that Michigan Tech's...
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