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This Is How Sports Teams Choose Their Tech Gear
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This Is How Sports Teams Choose Their Tech Gear

Since at least the 1930s, according to baseball historians, Major League Baseball clubs have kept phones in their dugouts and bullpens.

New Computer Chip Manufacturing Method Squeezes More Onto Limited Wafer Space
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New Computer Chip Manufacturing Method Squeezes More Onto Limited Wafer Space

Computer chip integration is impeded by limits on the size of transistors approaching the atomic scale. Now, a team of engineers has devised a reproducible and...

With the Iphone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever
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With the Iphone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever

Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched, in 2007.

Microsoft Wants Autistic Coders. Can It Find Them And Keep Them?
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Microsoft Wants Autistic Coders. Can It Find Them And Keep Them?

Job interviews can be especially hard for someone with autism. A Microsoft effort aimed at a wider spectrum of the workforce wants to solve that.

Nasa Ran a Treasure Hunt For Robots to Develop Space Exploration Tech
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Nasa Ran a Treasure Hunt For Robots to Develop Space Exploration Tech

Over the past few days, a bunch of robots have taken part in a very serious treasure hunt.

Google’s Deepmind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough
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Google’s Deepmind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough

Google's DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says outperforms existing...

The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed
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The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed

Today in the skies over New Mexico, Air Force students are practicing for the kill.

We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality
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We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality

Most Star Trek stories from the vaunted franchise turning 50 this week take place in a distant future we're not likely to see.

Colin Powell's E-Mail Tips: ­se Private Phone Line, Personal Aol Account… and Keep Mouth Shut
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Colin Powell's E-Mail Tips: ­se Private Phone Line, Personal Aol Account… and Keep Mouth Shut

In an e-mail exchange with then-incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that the State Department Diplomatic...

Exascale Computing Project Announces $39.8 Million in Funding
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Exascale Computing Project Announces $39.8 Million in Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project announced $39.8 million in full funding for 15 application development proposals and seed funding for...

Cyber Skills in High Demand Well Into the Future
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Cyber Skills in High Demand Well Into the Future

The cybersecurity job market is wide open — if you have the skills. If you don't, there are plenty of opportunities to get up to speed and perhaps boost future...

How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical
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How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical

There are two equally valid, yet seemingly incompatible, ways of viewing Apple Computer's relationship with Ireland.

Perovskite Research Discoveries May Lead to Solar Cell, Led Advances
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Perovskite Research Discoveries May Lead to Solar Cell, Led Advances

New research on organolead mixed-halide perovskites investigates how the material's composition affect its chemistry, moisture stability, and transport properties...

Detecting and Correcting Factory Faults, Cyberattacks in Real Time
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Detecting and Correcting Factory Faults, Cyberattacks in Real Time

A $4 million project aims to spot a glitch in the robots, conveyor belts, sensors, control systems, and communication networks on a factory floor and reconfigure...

Does the Messaging Service Telegram Take Privacy Too Far?
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Does the Messaging Service Telegram Take Privacy Too Far?

The encryption of digital information is considered the best protection against hackers, snoops or potential enemies looking to poke around into private exchanges...

The Fbi's Latest Mission: Be Cool Enough to Recruit Hackers
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The Fbi's Latest Mission: Be Cool Enough to Recruit Hackers

The FBI has struggled for years to attract enough fresh hacker talent to defend America's computers.

Engineers Demonstrate 'materials That Compute'
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Engineers Demonstrate 'materials That Compute'

University of Pittsburgh researchers have demonstrated a hybrid material can be designed to recognize simple patterns.

For First Time, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon
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For First Time, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon

University of Wisconsin–Madison materials engineers have created carbon nanotube transistors that outperform state-of-the-art silicon transistors.

Nasa Approves 2018 Launch of Mars Insight Mission
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Nasa Approves 2018 Launch of Mars Insight Mission

NASA is moving forward with a spring 2018 launch of its InSight mission to study the deep interior of Mars, following final approval this week by the agency's Science...

How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
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How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone

Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location?
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