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Pinkenburg and the Gearheadz
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Pinkenburg and the Gearheadz

Brookhaven physicist Chris Pinkenburg coaches a kids' robotics team for national competitions.

Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It, Study Says
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Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It, Study Says

Mood and personality play an important role in how companies should manage their IT systems, according to a new study published in the Information Systems Journal...

Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?
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Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?

It's been a lousy couple of years for researchers who study the effects of computerized brain training.

It's the Data, Stupid: Why Database Admins Are More Important Than Ever
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It's the Data, Stupid: Why Database Admins Are More Important Than Ever

For those of us who have been in the information technology realm for too long, the title "database administrator" conjures up very specific images.

How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It
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How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It

Smart watches aren't exactly models of efficiency—they require one hand to operate while the other wrist wears it. A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers...

Humans and Robots of the Future
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Humans and Robots of the Future

Researchers at Innopolis University, Russia, surveyed 300 participants of the Russian Robot Olympiad to learn what children, aged 8-25, think about robots, artificial...

Twitter Offers Clues to Stock Performance, Study Shows
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Twitter Offers Clues to Stock Performance, Study Shows

A study by two Johns Hopkins professors shows a strong contemporaneous correlation between the mood of a day's worth of tweets about a particular stock and the...

They Promised ­S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.
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They Promised ­S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.

Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.

The Mapping Expert Behind Pokémon Go
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The Mapping Expert Behind Pokémon Go

Over the past couple of weeks, the smartphone game Pokémon Go has more than doubled Nintendo’s share price and reintroduced the Pokémon Co.’s digital monsters to...

10 Percent of Computer Science Graduates Unable to Find Work
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10 Percent of Computer Science Graduates Unable to Find Work

Computer science graduates are still at the top of the U.K.'s higher education unemployment rankings, according to the latest figures compiled by the Higher Education...

Taking STEM Education to the Next Level
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Taking STEM Education to the Next Level

Students in the Tri-Cities, Washington State area have more opportunities to get pumped about STEM thanks to a host of education organizations and programs supported...

Companies Are Flooding Earth's Orbit with Satellites, but No One's Directing Traffic
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Companies Are Flooding Earth's Orbit with Satellites, but No One's Directing Traffic

Companies around the globe are launching an increasing number of satellites, crowding Earth's orbit in an effort to satisfy the ravenous on-demand desire for more...

Hey Robot, Shimmy Like a Centipede
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Hey Robot, Shimmy Like a Centipede

Researchers at Kyoto University have asked why centipedes move with such dexterity, and have turned to computer simulations and ultimately robotics to find an answer...

Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On

Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...

Imaging Software Predicts How You Look With Different Hair Styles, Colors, Appearances
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Imaging Software Predicts How You Look With Different Hair Styles, Colors, Appearances

A new personalized image search engine called Dreambit lets a person see how he or she would look with a different hairstyle or color, in a different time period...

China Seeks Top-10 Automation Ranking By 2020: Robot Industry Group
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China Seeks Top-10 Automation Ranking By 2020: Robot Industry Group

China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics...

Mars Rover's Laser Can Now Target Rocks All by Itself
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Mars Rover's Laser Can Now Target Rocks All by Itself

New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously — the first time autonomous target...

America Wants to Believe China Can't Innovate. Tech Tells a Different Story.
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America Wants to Believe China Can't Innovate. Tech Tells a Different Story.

Silicon Valley may be powered by organic kale, but when Chinese tech gurus gather at 3W, a coffee shop-slash-incubator in the Chinese capital, they want sunflower...

Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary

There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...

Quantum Drag
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Quantum Drag

Current in one iron magnetic sheet can create quantized spin waves in a separate sheet, a finding that researchers say could play a role in the development of smaller...
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