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The Smart(phone) Solution For ­rban Mobility
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The Smart(phone) Solution For ­rban Mobility

Mobile phones are helping commuters cope with erratic bus schedules, delayed subways, and other public transit woes around the world. 

Graphene Barrier Precisely Controls Molecules Within Nanoelectronics
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Graphene Barrier Precisely Controls Molecules Within Nanoelectronics

UCLA scientists have found an effective way to place molecules in the specific patterns they need within tiny nanoelectronic devices.

Tech Salaries Had Biggest Year-Over-Year Increase in 2015
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Tech Salaries Had Biggest Year-Over-Year Increase in 2015

Average technology salaries in the U.S. saw the biggest year-over-year leap ever in 2015, up 7.7 percent to $96,370 annually, according to the annual salary survey...

Realistic Data Needed to Evolve the 21st Century Power Grid
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Realistic Data Needed to Evolve the 21st Century Power Grid

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is helping to create open-access power grid datasets for researchers and industry. 

Researchers Look to Boost ­nderwater Wireless Networks
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Researchers Look to Boost ­nderwater Wireless Networks

Researchers want to bring the innovation and growth experienced by land-based wireless communications to underwater sensing networks.

The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting
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The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting

The Wozniak Lounge, located on the northern side of campus at the University of California, Berkeley, looks like it was decorated by engineers, to the extent that...

Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants
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Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants

The latest standoff between Europe and American tech companies runs through a quiet street just north of the Louvre Museum, past chic cafes and part of the French...

Cyber Security Testbed to Help Protect U.S. Power Grid
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Cyber Security Testbed to Help Protect U.S. Power Grid

Iowa State engineers Doug Jacobson and Manimaran Govindarasu have built the "PowerCyber" testbed to help researchers, industry engineers, and students learn to...

A New Quantum Approach to Big Data
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A New Quantum Approach to Big Data

Some problems remain daunting and impractical for the most powerful modern supercomputers. Now, researchers have developed a new approach that would use quantum...

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
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Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief

Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...

Catching Heartbeats with Millimeter-Wave Radar
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Catching Heartbeats with Millimeter-Wave Radar

Researchers at Kyoto University and Panasonic Corp. have developed a sensing system that combines millimeter-wave radar and a signal analysis algorithm to measure...

Defending Your Computer From Cyber-Attacks, Sun Tzu Style
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Defending Your Computer From Cyber-Attacks, Sun Tzu Style

Might the key to defeating malware be the introduction of a bit of chaos?

Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business
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Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business

IBM is not a design company.

Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute
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Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: A new gene-editing technology allows scientists to precisely locate and cut out bits of DNA from live cells in bacteria...

Researchers Go for the Gold on a Single Chip
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Researchers Go for the Gold on a Single Chip

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have created a library of nanoporous gold structures on a single chip that has direct applications for high-capacity...

Explore Galaxies Far, Far Away at Internet Speeds
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Explore Galaxies Far, Far Away at Internet Speeds

Scientists have expanded the number of images that allow users to take a virtual tour of the universe from the comfort of their own computers. The publicly accessible...

Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future
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Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future

There's a little parlor game that people in Silicon Valley like to play. Let's call it, Who's Losing?

Open-Source Gpu Could Push Computing Power to the Next Level
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Open-Source Gpu Could Push Computing Power to the Next Level

Researchers at Binghamton University are using an open-source graphics processor unit (GPU) to push the devices' performance and application.

Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips
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Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips

Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying...
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