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Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?
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Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?

Which is more intrusive: security screening and metal detectors every few blocks, or a drone flying high above it taking video of every little thing you do?

India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips
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India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips

The government of India, home to many of the world’s leading software outsourcing companies, wants to replicate that success by creating a homegrown industry for...

Silicon Valley Offers More Perks Than Ever to Recruit, Retain Talent
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Silicon Valley Offers More Perks Than Ever to Recruit, Retain Talent

In a competition for workers, tech companies across Silicon Valley are building new headquarters and offering an escalating level of perks in order to attract and...

Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities
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Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities

The U.S. military has been attempting to build up the offensive cybersecurity capabilities in its various services for several years now, but is running into the...

How New Military Technologies Can Help Prevent the Next Boston or Newtown
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How New Military Technologies Can Help Prevent the Next Boston or Newtown

This week, it's bombs. In December, it was guns.

Consortium Aims to Harness Big Data as U.s. Economic Engine
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Consortium Aims to Harness Big Data as U.s. Economic Engine

A new collaboration called the National Consortium for Data Science aims to create a national hub for data-intensive business and data science research and education...

How Pixar ­sed Moore's Law to Predict the Future
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How Pixar ­sed Moore's Law to Predict the Future

Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore's Law has been going strong.

Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun

Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...

'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley

It doesn't look like much.

Study Will Focus on Secondary Use of Electric Vehicle Batteries
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Study Will Focus on Secondary Use of Electric Vehicle Batteries

Automotive batteries may not have hit the end of the road once they've finished powering electric vehicles. Researcyers are studying the feasibility of using them...

Should ­niversities Offer Cobol Classes?
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Should ­niversities Offer Cobol Classes?

Billions of lines of Cobol code are still in use at large businesses and in government agencies. However, Cobol is only taught as an elective at most universities...

Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA For Google Job
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Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA For Google Job

Peter Zatko, the computer hacking expert better known by the handle Mudge, says he’s leaving his job as a program manager at DARPA to join Google.

Hacker Says Phone App Could Hijack Plane
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Hacker Says Phone App Could Hijack Plane

Could this be the deadliest smartphone app ever?

Sandberg's Book Prompts Discussion on Dearth of Women in IT
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Sandberg's Book Prompts Discussion on Dearth of Women in IT

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's best-selling book, Lean In, has reinvigorated the conversation about the role of women in the IT industry.

Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past
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Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past

In Issac Asimov's classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory.

Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money
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Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler—Olympic rowers, nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg—are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls.

Immigration and the Knowledge Economy
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Immigration and the Knowledge Economy

Earlier this year I started teaching a class on entrepreneurship at an after-school program in my community.

Deputy Minister: No 'time Machine' Invention Registered in Iran
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Deputy Minister: No 'time Machine' Invention Registered in Iran

Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri dismissed the claims raised by an Iranian inventor who says he has registered...

Facebook Fatigue Among Teens Should Freak Out Marketers
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Facebook Fatigue Among Teens Should Freak Out Marketers

Uh oh. Teens are growing tired of Facebook and YouTube, new research shows, a falling-out that has the potential to trigger a wide-ranging effect on retail, fashion...

The Modern Data Nerd Isn't as Nerdy as You Think
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The Modern Data Nerd Isn't as Nerdy as You Think

Data scientists are fast becoming the rock stars of the 21st century.
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