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On Waterfront, Rise of the Machines
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On Waterfront, Rise of the Machines

In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...

Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
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Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...

Robot Culture Blossoms in Bay Area
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Robot Culture Blossoms in Bay Area

They may not look exactly like their goofy, gangly ancestors on '60s TV.

How Student Coders Helped Cern Build Iphone App, Speed ­p Simulations
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How Student Coders Helped Cern Build Iphone App, Speed ­p Simulations

Google Summer of Code is one of the best deals out there both for students looking to hone their coding skills and for organizations that need cheap, talented labor...

Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds
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Don't Tell Teenager Shachi Kakkar That Chip Verification Is For Nerds

Anybody who's 17, or ever been 17, knows that any suggestions your parents make are nothing but lame. But every now and then, one of those lame ideas turns into...

Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?
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Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?

Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...

Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering
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Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering

Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar is a numbers guy by training. But he's also in charge of the giant social network's foray into what it calls "compassion...

How the Curiosity Rover's Robotic Arm Is Blazing a Trail on Mars ... and Earth
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How the Curiosity Rover's Robotic Arm Is Blazing a Trail on Mars ... and Earth

The robotic arm on NASA's Curiosity rover should set a new standard for robotic operations on Mars—and it could revolutionize robotics on Earth as well.

Nsf Grant Will Create 'big Data' Infrastructure at Ndsu
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Nsf Grant Will Create 'big Data' Infrastructure at Ndsu

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded North Dakota State University a $400,000 grant over three years to create a Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure...

The Acer Smartphone That Never Was
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The Acer Smartphone That Never Was

It was going to be the big mobile-phone breakthrough Chinese e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba needed.

Do It Yourself and Save: Making Equipment For the Lab, in the Lab
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Do It Yourself and Save: Making Equipment For the Lab, in the Lab

The open-source revolution is driving down the cost of doing science by letting researchers to make their own lab equipment.

With Iphone 5, Apple Again Raises the Smartphone Bar
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With Iphone 5, Apple Again Raises the Smartphone Bar

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook took the stage Wednesday to unveil an eagerly awaited revamping of the company's flagship products, including the iPhone, iPod, iTunes—all...

­pgrade Triples Computational Capability of Razor Supercomputer
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­pgrade Triples Computational Capability of Razor Supercomputer

A hardware upgrade to Razor, the flagship supercomputer of the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center, has tripled the computer's computational capabilities...

Game Maker Without a Rule Book
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Game Maker Without a Rule Book

This is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks
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Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks

On a dusk-lit beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, four miles from the northwesternmost point of the continental U.S., a man dressed in a mad scientist's white...

Mow Yard. Drop Off Kids. Take a Drive on Mars.
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Mow Yard. Drop Off Kids. Take a Drive on Mars.

Matt Heverly, 36, started a recent workday as any young father might: up at 5:30, gulping coffee, fixing a bottle for the baby. 

Intel Seeks Software Experts in Growing Windows Tablet Push
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Intel Seeks Software Experts in Growing Windows Tablet Push

Top chipmaker Intel Corp is recruiting for a new software team focused on tablets, according to a new job ad, underscoring the top chipmaker's efforts to expand...

Nasa Sparks Its Imagination
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Nasa Sparks Its Imagination

It's been a month since Curiosity’s remarkable soft landing on the surface of Mars. Remember the massive, supersonic parachute that slowed the spacecraft’s descent...

Cellphone Medical Test Wins Npr's 'big Idea' Contest
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Cellphone Medical Test Wins Npr's 'big Idea' Contest

Most of us would like to make life better for people in developing countries. Most of us don't do anything about it. Catherine Wong is different.

Make Your Own Action Figures With a 3-D Printer
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Make Your Own Action Figures With a 3-D Printer

Computer graphics researchers at Cornell and Harvard have created software that will translate a character from a movie or video game, or even something you've...
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