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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand

Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.

All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest

When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.

Genome Sequencing Stumbles Towards the Clinic
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Genome Sequencing Stumbles Towards the Clinic

Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.

The World's Richest Ex-Hackers
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The World's Richest Ex-Hackers

Long before he was the two-hundred-and-second richest person on the planet, Jan Koum was just another curious kid with a wardialer.

Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
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Silicon Valley's Youth Problem

The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google's.

The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
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The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started

Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...

Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information

The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...

Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It

I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...

Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind

While you are in space, could you keep a diary?

Computer Science: The Learning Machines
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines

Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...

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Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029

In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...

Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
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Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within

After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...

The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent
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The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent

Bram Cohen sits at a round desk, surrounded by a pod of open cubicles.

Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
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Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future

It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...

Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield
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Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield

An electromagnetic mystery in northern Iraq changed the course of Jesse Potter's life.

Interviewing the Algorithm
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Interviewing the Algorithm

Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.

The Face Behind Bitcoin
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The Face Behind Bitcoin

Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old Japanese-American former defense contractor living in a modest Temple City, Calif. suburban home. Speaking with...

Social Physics
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Social Physics

Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...

Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget
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Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget

A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.

Workshop Reviews Big Data Privacy Policy
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Workshop Reviews Big Data Privacy Policy

MIT hosted a daylong workshop on big data and privacy, co-sponsored by the White House, as part of a 90-day review of data privacy policy announced in January...
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