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In the Developing World, Moocs Start to Get Real
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In the Developing World, Moocs Start to Get Real

As online education platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity burst onto the scene over the past year, backers have talked up their potential to democratize higher...

Intel's Media Unit on Hiring Spree to Prep for TV Debut
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Intel's Media Unit on Hiring Spree to Prep for TV Debut

Intel Corp's media group has been on a hiring spree as it prepares to launch an Internet television service later this year, underscoring the chip maker's seriousness...

10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.

Internet Pioneers Win Engineering Prize
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Internet Pioneers Win Engineering Prize

Sir Tim Berners Lee, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, and Marc Andreessen will share the £1m award.

Israel Ramps ­p Its Cyberdefense Training
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Israel Ramps ­p Its Cyberdefense Training

Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes.

Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers
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Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers

Engineers will be able to design better fuel systems for everything from motorcycles to rockets faster and more inexpensively because of a mathematical fuels model...

Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning
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Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning

Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.

Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside
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Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin to Step Aside

In a significant changing of the guard, Google said Wednesday that Android chief Andy Rubin, who built the company's phenomenally successful mobile software business...

High-Tech Designs Vie to Replace Nyc's Payphones
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High-Tech Designs Vie to Replace Nyc's Payphones


Netflix Offers $100,000 in Prizes to Advance Cloud Computing
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Netflix Offers $100,000 in Prizes to Advance Cloud Computing

Netflix Inc. has announced the Netflix Cloud Prize, a competition that will award $100,000 in prize money to developers challenged to make cloud computing better...

Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border
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Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border

From a distance, it looked like Wyatt Nease was using a handset to operate a remote control car.

Controlling Your Computer With a Wave of Your Hand
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Controlling Your Computer With a Wave of Your Hand

If you've had wrist and shoulder pain from clicking a mouse, relief may be in sight.

­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)
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­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)

Alternate-reality games are no longer just for geeks and corporations that want to sell you stuff.

A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists
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A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists

During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos.

Space Based Relay Study
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Space Based Relay Study

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Exploration and Space Communications Division, is leading a study on behalf of the Space Communications and Navigation Program...

Can Your Boss Read Your Email?
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Can Your Boss Read Your Email?

Harvard faculty members responded with shock after the Boston Globe revealed that theuniversity’s administration had searched 16 faculty deans’ email accounts to...

On Facebook, App Makers Face a Treacherous Path
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On Facebook, App Makers Face a Treacherous Path

Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as Southern California's skies.

Making Cloud Computing More Efficient
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Making Cloud Computing More Efficient

For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance.

Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats
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Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats

It remains the dream of military imagery analysts who stare at surveillance footage all day: sensors and cameras that alert their human masters to looming threats...

Why Private Companies Won't Make ­p For Cuts in Government Science Funding
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Why Private Companies Won't Make ­p For Cuts in Government Science Funding

The budget cuts that took effect last week could wipe out as much as $54 billion in federal funding of science, research, and innovation over the next five years...
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